Stop the Payment Before It Starts: Rethinking Disbursement Control in a High-Risk World

Every organization has controls in place to approve and process disbursements.  But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Many of those controls are focused on how disbursements are made, not whether they should be made at all.  And that’s where risk lives.  In today’s environment, fraudsters aren’t breaking processes, they’re exploiting them.  They’re inserting themselves into workflows, manipulating vendor data, and triggering payments that are approved but fundamentally wrong.

This webinar will challenge conventional thinking around disbursement control and show why accounts payable sits at the center of one of the most critical financial control gaps in the enterprise.

What you’ll learn: 

• Why traditional disbursement controls are no longer enough
• Where disbursement risk begins and why it starts long before a payment is made
• How weak vendor onboarding and poor vendor data governance create systemic exposure
• A modern, data-centric framework for controlling disbursements
• The evolving role of AP as the last line of defense before cash leaves the business

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 30 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Phil Binkow
CEO, Financial Operations Networks

Phil Binkow is CEO of Financial Operations Networks, developer of the InvoiceInfo and VendorInfo vendor portals. In 2002, FON founded The Accounts Payable Network, the leading training, certification and best-practice resource for individuals with management responsibility for accounts payable operations. Prior to starting Financial Operations Networks, Phil was CEO of PayTECH, one of the world’s largest invoice processing and spend analysis Software-as-a-Service companies.