SAP Close Up 2026
Your SAP environment has more capacity than your team uses today. Unlocking it usually means starting a project while the month-end close keeps coming, so it stays on the list without ever moving up.
SAP Close Up is a half-day for finance professionals who want to change that. You will see what is within reach in SAP Group Reporting and SAP Analytics Cloud, hear from an organisation that has been through the implementation, and pick the break-out that fits your role. You leave with a specific next step for your own environment.
Who should attend
This afternoon is made for the people who run the close and shape the plan: financial controllers, consolidation specialists, business controllers, FP&A managers, and SAP finance IT and transformation leads.
After the afternoon
At the closing drinks, you can book a short follow-up with the Finext team:
- SAP Finance improvement workshop
- Group Reporting optimisation scan
Practical details
- Date: 27 October 2026
- Time: 13:30 – 17:00
- Location: Finext office, Noordeinde 21, Delft
Welcome Coffee
Opening
Keynote: How Stedin implemented SAP Group Reporting
In 2025, Stedin implemented SAP Group Reporting in their existing S/4HANA environment. Daniël Wilmink, Senior Project Manager Finance at Stedin, and Robert-Jan Bronsema from Finext take you through the full journey: what led Stedin to choose Group Reporting, what worked during the implementation, and what the platform delivers in daily use now. Including what they would do differently.
A first-hand look at a live implementation, from the people who ran it.
Switching Rooms for Break-out sessions
The two break-outs run in parallel and cover different ground. Group Reporting is about the close. SAP Analytics Cloud is about planning and analysis. Pick the one that matches your work.
Breakout session A: Kick out the pizza delivery boy
SAP Group Reporting has landed in the Netherlands. Customers are live, implementations are ongoing, and SAP keeps developing the product. Robert-Jan covers four developments that tighten the integration between S/4HANA and Group Reporting:
- Group Reporting Preparation Ledger in S/4HANA
- Intercompany matching at document level
- Reporting on accounting data in the Reporting Booklet
- Validations on accounting data
The session closes with an open discussion on how to put these developments to work for a smoother, calmer close.
For financial controllers, consolidation specialists, and anyone who works on the close.
Breakout session B: What can SAC do for you? And why should you care?
SAP Analytics Cloud has grown into a serious platform for financial planning, forecasting, and reporting. Customers are live, implementations are ongoing, and SAP keeps expanding what it can do. Julio takes you through it with a hands-on lens:
- Core SAC capabilities and the latest developments: stories, models, data actions, and calendars
- A P&L forecast dashboard with graphs and filters, as a working example you will recognise
- "Just Ask": a live look at SAC's AI-driven features
- Integrations such as BDC, and advanced features as a look ahead
The session closes with an open discussion on how to use these developments to sharpen your planning process and support better business decisions.
For FP&A managers, business controllers, and anyone focused on planning, forecasting, and analysis.
Break
SAP hosted session: AI and the road to Autonomous Finance
Autonomous Finance is no longer a concept. Joule Assistants and Joule Agents are built to orchestrate entire finance processes from end to end, from close and accruals to cash management and compliance.
Bart Peijnenburg, Product Manager Finance at SAP Nederland, shows you what that means in practice: how the Financial Closing Assistant brings close cycles down from weeks to days, what the SAP Autonomous Suite covers, and what your organisation should evaluate now to be ready when it arrives.
Wrap up
Drinks with peers

Daniël Wilmink
Senior Project Manager Finance, Stedin
Daniël Wilmink works in Corporate Control at Stedin, where he leads finance projects at the intersection of process and change. In 2025 he was responsible for the implementation of SAP Group Reporting within Stedin's existing S/4HANA environment. At SAP Close Up he shares what that journey looked like in practice — from the decision to go with Group Reporting through to what it delivers today.
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