October 9, 2025 @ 1 PM EST

Reimagining Payments: How Leading Institutions Turn Operations into Competitive Advantage

Institutions are losing time and money to fragmented payment processes, manual reconciliation, and outdated purchasing workflows. These inefficiencies create compliance risks and prevent finance teams from focusing on strategic priorities.

Presenting Partners

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Doug Hindsley
Corpay1
Bryan Cook
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Angela Sarno
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Mitch Baxter

About the Session

Institutions are losing time and money to fragmented payment processes, manual reconciliation, and outdated purchasing workflows. These inefficiencies create compliance risks and prevent finance teams from focusing on strategic priorities. CPE credits available to those who attend.

Why Now: 
With budget pressures mounting, institutions must shift from cost centers to value creators — leveraging financial tools that generate revenue and streamline operations. 

Key Takeaways

Strategic Transformation of Payment Workflows
Institutions can reframe fragmented payment processes as strategic assets. Aligning workflows with institutional goals unlocks revenue, reduces risk, and elevates finance teams to strategic leadership roles.

Real-Time Compliance Risk Mitigation
Learn how modern financial technologies address overlooked compliance risks—like decentralized spend and manual reconciliation—through real-time monitoring and automated controls.

ERP Integration for Operational Efficiency
Discover how panelists’ solutions integrate with higher education ERP systems to automate reporting, streamline reconciliation, and reduce manual workload for greater transparency and agility.

Change Management in Financial Modernization
Modernization requires cultural and procedural shifts. Gain insights into successful change management strategies including stakeholder engagement, training, and phased implementation.

Managing Decentralized and One-Time Spend
Explore how institutions can maintain compliance and speed in ad hoc purchases using tools that offer visibility, approval workflows, and policy enforcement across departments.

Measurable Outcomes from Modernization
Hear real-world examples of cost savings, fraud reduction, faster reconciliation, and improved vendor relationships achieved through payment and expense workflow modernization.

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The Finance Risk and ROI Playbook

Webinar Series for Procurement and Finance Leaders

With the rapidly changing environment of the education finance space, E&I remains committed to providing its members and professionals throughout the industry with opportunities to stay ahead of the curve. Learn more about our multi-session webinar series. 

The E&I Portfolio

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Strategic Spend Assessments — At No Cost | Gain visibility into your spending with no-cost Strategic Spend Assessments (SSA’s). We help you identify savings opportunities, forecast procurement needs, and improve efficiency — all tailored to your institution’s goals. 

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Dollars

$3,000,000,000

in E&I member purchases

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200+

competitively solicited contracts

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6,000

member institutions

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