Connect school administration and finance
Explore how student, family, and school administration information can work alongside financial systems to reduce duplicated effort and improve consistency.
What would change if your school's administration, finance, and everyday approval processes worked better together?
Join Professional Advantage, SIMON Schools, and Alii for a practical webinar exploring how schools and education groups can reduce manual work, improve financial visibility, and build stronger connections between the systems they rely on every day.
Discover how connected student administration, modern financial management, and intelligent accounts payable automation can help schools spend less time managing processes and more time supporting their communities.
Building a more connected school
Running a school involves far more than managing students and classrooms. Behind the scenes, business managers, finance teams, and administrators are balancing enrolments, family information, purchasing, budgets, approvals, and reporting.
When these activities depend on disconnected systems, duplicated data, and manual processes, even routine tasks can become unnecessarily complicated.
But what does a more connected approach actually look like?
In this webinar, three technology specialists working with Australian schools will explore how the right combination of systems can improve the way information moves between school administration and finance.
We'll examine how SIMON supports student and school administration, how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central provides a foundation for financial management and reporting, and how Alii helps simplify purchasing, invoice processing, and approvals.
Drawing on practical education experience, the session will explore what's possible, the challenges worth addressing, and the considerations involved in building a more connected school environment.
Don’t miss out. Register today.
What you'll learn
Take the complexity out of everyday finance processes
Discover opportunities to improve purchasing, invoice processing, expense management, and approvals without adding unnecessary administrative work.
Strengthen financial visibility and control
Understand how modern financial systems can support more reliable reporting, clearer accountability, and better decisions across schools and education groups.
Learn from real education projects
Hear practical insights from the SIMON Nexus initiative and the implementation of integrated school administration and finance systems across a large Australian education organisation.
Plan your next steps with confidence
Identify where connected systems and workflow improvements could make the greatest difference to your school or education organisation.
Real-world experience:
Connecting schools at scale What does it take to bring school administration and financial management together across an entire education network?
Professional Advantage and SIMON have been working with Diocese of Ballarat Catholic Education on the SIMON Nexus initiative, connecting SIMON's school administration capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
With more than 50 schools participating in the rollout, the project provides valuable experience in managing financial consistency, connecting information, and supporting schools with different operational requirements.
We'll draw on lessons from this initiative to explore the practical considerations involved in modernising school systems, whether for an individual school or a larger education network.
Three perspectives. One connected approach.
SIMON Schools — Student and school administration
Explore how a platform designed for K–12 education supports student information, enrolments, school administration, communication, and connected workflows across the school community.
Professional Advantage — Finance, operations, and reporting
Discover how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central supports school financial management, governance, and reporting, including the opportunities created by connecting finance with school administration.
Alii — Purchasing, accounts payable, and approvals
See how automation can reduce the manual effort involved in purchasing, invoices, credit cards, staff reimbursements, and approvals, while supporting stronger financial controls and connections with Business Central.
Who should attend?
This webinar is designed for people responsible for the business, financial, operational, and technology functions of K–12 education organisations.
Whether you're a School Business Manager, Bursar, Finance Manager, CFO, Principal, Operations Director, or IT leader, you'll gain practical insight into the opportunities created by better-connected school systems.
The session is relevant to independent and Catholic schools, multi-campus colleges, diocesan education offices, school groups, and other K–12 education organisations.
Discover what's possible for your school
Better-connected systems can mean fewer manual tasks, more reliable information, stronger financial control, and more time for the work that matters.
Join Professional Advantage, SIMON Schools, and Alii to explore practical ways to bring school administration, finance, and everyday workflows closer together.
Learn from education experts
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Dennis Dalla Costa
Business Development Manager
Dennis joined Professional Advantage as a Business Development Manager in 1999 and has seen major changes in both technology and vendors within the sector over the past 20 years. He has consulted with a large number of mid-market enterprises, helping them enhance their business processes via technology and advising on how best to deploy various technologies to enable enterprises to become 'high performing'.
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Kevin Brodie
General Manager - SIMON Schools
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Chamil Fernando
CEO - Alii Technology Group
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