Jennifer Bonenfant
Bridging Finance, Audit, Leadership & Innovation: A CPA Leader driving Operational Excellence, Compliance and Digital Transformation
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Jennifer Bonenfant brings a 360° perspective shaped by experience as a KPMG auditor, finance leader, and board member. She specializes in guiding organizations through compliance, audit readiness, and ERP transformation—leveraging Dynamics 365 Business Central and emerging AI capabilities to build secure, scalable finance environments. Her approach blends governance rigor with practical innovation, empowering teams to achieve confidence in controls while embracing the future of digital finance.
Ready, Set, Connect! Connect Business Central with Microsoft 365 Applications
Get more value out of Business Central by leveraging Business Central integrations to other Microsoft products including Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerBi, OneDrive.
Reporting That Users Love: Business Central’s Built In Reporting, Analytics, and Copilot
Microsoft continues to invest heavily in reporting and data analysis within Dynamics 365 Business Central, delivering intuitive, self service tools that empower users to make decisions without leaving the Business Central.
This session explores how enhanced financial reporting, immersive Power BI integration, and Copilot experiences transform reporting from a back office task into a strategic advantage.
You’ll learn practical tips for leveraging Excel templates, Teams integration, and secure sharing to maximize collaboration and adoption. Attendees will leave this session with actionable strategies to standardize reporting, boost confidence, and keep users engaged in Business Central.
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Learning Objectives
1. Use Analysis Mode to deliver “pivot in place” experiences on list pages
2. Author and operationalize Financial Reports to create repeatable, governed statements that end users can run, subscribe to, and trust.
3. Adopt open-sourced Power BI apps and enable drill back and dynamic dimension naming
4. Streamline report layout updates in Word
5. Accelerate discovery with AI powered navigation through advanced Tell Me and Copilot
7. Leverage the mobility of Business Central to deliver time sensitive, user-based analysis and reporting.
8. Optimize Outlook and Teams for analysis
Jennifer is a member of Kennie's Financial Reporting Hero's group leading advocacy and awareness of BC reporting and analysis capabilities.
Double Down on Compliance- Holding a full house with Microsoft+Business Central+Copilot
Ready to play in the big leagues of finance? In this session, you will learn how to stack the deck in your favor with a winning hand: Microsoft’s compliance, Dynamics 365 Business Central’s built-in controls, and Copilot’s AI-powered assist.
From lifecycle policies and Trust Center assurances to Purview auditing and zero-to-hero features like approvals, posting windows, and analysis mode, you’ll learn how to turn audit anxiety into confidence.
We’ll even peek at emerging Agent capabilities—because in Vegas and in finance, timing and control are everything.
Walk away with practical patterns, checklists, and insights that make your finance function audit-ready, scalable, and future-proof.
When you leave this table, you’ll know how to bet smart on compliance and hit the jackpot on efficiency!
Compliance to Confidence: Building an Audit-Ready, AI Enabled Environment in Business Central
This session equips finance leaders, Microsoft partners and CPA’s with a rigorous, practitioner level roadmap for standing up—and continually improving—a compliant, well controlled, and audit ready Dynamics 365 Business Central environment.
Grounded in Microsoft’s Modern Lifecycle Policy, Trust Center principles, and the latest Microsoft Learn guidance, we’ll connect service level compliance with practical internal controls, walk through Microsoft Purview auditing for privileged operations, and demonstrate “out of the box” Business Central capabilities that immediately strengthen financial reporting and support internal/external audits.
Attendees will leave with concrete patterns, configurations, and checklists that align to assurance priorities: data integrity, role appropriate access, posting discipline, workflow based approvals, documentation capture, and analytic visibility across users and changes—with pragmatic coverage of Copilot and emerging Agent capabilities to scale finance work without compromising control.
Pivot, Drill & Chill! Unlocking Business Central's Reporting & Analysis Magic!
Ready to turn reporting from a chore into a superpower? Join us for a lively session into Dynamics 365 Business Central’s built-in analytics, Power BI integrations, and Copilot magic. We’ll show you how to pivot in place with Analysis Mode, drill back to transaction details, and create financial reports that users actually love—no more endless exports or clunky workarounds!
Discover how dynamic dimensions, immersive Power BI apps, and AI-powered navigation make reporting faster, smarter, and way more fun.
We’ll also explore practical tricks like streamlining Word layouts with the BC add-in, embedding KPIs in Teams, and sharing secure links for collaboration.
All chips on the table: Wrap up with a 10-minute speed-round of tips and tricks—rapid-fire hacks you can take back to your team for instant wins.
Whether you’re a finance leader, operations manager, or super user, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to standardize reporting, boost adoption, and keep your users engaged. Bring your curiosity and get ready to pivot, drill, and chill your way to reporting brilliance!
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