Making money go further: how to make government spending more efficient
Public finances around the world are under strain, with increased scrutiny over government spending and higher demands for services coming at a time when economic growth is constraining tax revenues in many countries.
As a result, governments face growing pressure to maximise the efficiency of public expenses and purchasing, and to do more with less. To accomplish this difficult challenge, government administrators need innovative solutions and greater insights into spending.
However, developments in technology and payments systems are opening up the potential for public servants to introduce new spending efficiencies, while capturing more timely and granular insights to manage spending and suppliers more effectively.
This webinar, in partnership with Visa, shared insight from civil servants around the world on how effective spending processes can be built to allow government to transparently and responsibly understand expenses and purchasing. The session looked at how digital technology can help improve the systems for public servants, making it easier to spend and claim expenses, as well as quickening payments to suppliers and provide insight on what are is spent where.
Join this session to find out:
- How governments are digitising to make public spending more efficient, effective and transparent for staff, suppliers and budgets.
- How to improve expense management across government to improve services for officials and better understand trends across both purchasing and employee expenses.
- How spending data can be used to drive greater efficiency and reduced duplication across the public sector.
Panel
Tim Chambers, Global Head of Government Commercial Payments, Visa
With almost 20 years experience in the payments industry, Tim has pioneered corporate payment solutions across various sectors including wholesale travel, insurance, logistics, media and the public sector. His extensive career spans senior roles in partnerships, sales, innovation & consulting at leading payment companies including GE, Airplus, WEX, Matercard, ING Bank, Ixaris and Lloyds Bank.
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Vincent P. Eavis, OPTIMA Co-Founder, PayTech Commercial AS
Vincent is an experienced global Commercial Payments industry expert.
He is a co-founder / designer of the OPTIMA by PayTech analytics Platform. Using Machine Learning algorithms and industry analysis this helps Clients to make the best decisions on where to use B2B Card (and other) payment tools focusing on the Buyer-Supplier relationship and equation driven by data based analysis. Vince has worked in several large Financial Institutions and with organisations across the world of all sizes from small Charities to the largest Corporations in the world. He has a background in Behavioural Economics and Psychology.
Webinar chair: Siobhan Benita, Moderator, Global Government Forum
Siobhan was a senior civil servant in the UK with more than 15 years’ Whitehall experience. She worked in many of major delivery departments, including Transport, Environment, Health and Local Government. She also had senior roles at the heart of government in the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, including supporting the then Cabinet Secretary, Lord O’Donnell, to lead work on civil service reform and strategy. Siobhan left to run as an independent candidate in the Mayor of London election. She subsequently joined her alma mater, Warwick University, as Chief Strategy Officer of Warwick in London and Co-Director of the Warwick Policy Lab.
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