Finance Share Services Leader at Reece Group Rhys joined the Reece Group, Australia’s leading supplier of plumbing and bathroom products, in June 2012. With over 20 year’s Commercial Finance experience across FMCG, Transport, Recruitment and Wholesale, Rhys has held senior roles internationally within Credit, Sales and Operations. Rhys has played a key role delivering processes improvement initiatives, revenue growth and cultural change throughout organisations. Within his current role Rhys has completely revamped the Credit/AR Department delivering a highly efficient team passionate about Reece and their customers. Rhys has had great success with stakeholder engagement, implementing and designing market leading technologies and driving innovation whilst providing focus and priority on staff development. This has resulted in increased sales and industry leading customer and employee engagement. Rhys currently manages a Shared Services Team with 50 staff and is driven by success, leading Reece’s achievement of Credit Team of the Year award in 2014 and several members of the Reece Credit Team participating in the young credit professional of the year awards (including a recent National Winner). Rhys’ ongoing mission is to push boundaries through innovative continuous improvement methodology, whilst investing in people and empowering them to succeed.

CEO and Founding Employee of CreditorWatch CreditorWatch is a commercial credit reporting bureau that offers a complete suite of credit reporting products and data insights covering the entire customer lifecycle - from customer onboarding and credit decision automation to credit reporting and automated collections. Patrick has been a member of the AICM for 10 years and is attending his 13th AICM Conference. He is regularly quoted in the media discussing all things credit risk, driven largely by CreditorWatch's unique data insights and monthly Business Risk Index.

Director, Open Analytics Open Analytics is an Australian financial services company founded on a vision to modernise and strengthen underwriting, risk management and customer engagement for banks and credit providers. We offer a unique design methodology and holistic approach to implementing pro-active, efficient and ethical decisioning processes with a strong emphasis on long-term sustainability and optimized risk-reward outcomes. Our team of credit risk management and data science experts provide support to financial institutions and creditors of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the major national banks to start-up online lenders. Additionally, we support energy retailers, utilities and other subscription service providers interested in applying credit risk management methodology to minimize and control payment risk.

Head of Risk, Asia Pacific, WEX Julie is a passionate, results-driven Operations Executive with extensive experience in delivering high-value credit risk outcomes for commercial clients and startups. Julie excels in helping companies exceed profitability and operational KPIs, demonstrating expertise in operational excellence and efficiencies. As a leader in operations and credit, Julie is known for her genuine, authentic approach to building capable, high-performing teams while supporting people to grow and deliver innovative outcomes.