Transform your finance function to provide the insights you need to create continuous value.
World events and technological advances are giving the finance function its time to shine. Now is the time to view your finance function through a strategic lens, designing processes that leverage automation to meet transactional and reporting demands. By integrating advanced analytics, you can identify opportunities, build trust and deliver value. Our human-led, tech-powered approach enables you to reimagine your finance function from new perspectives, beyond today’s boundaries.
Client priorities
Explore the priorities of future-focused finance leaders as they drive business success through innovative strategies, strategic partnerships and adaptive, resilient operations in a dynamic business environment.
- Analytics and automation
- Business partnering
- Agile operations
Analytics and automation
In a future-focused finance function, leveraging advanced analytics and automation is paramount. By integrating these technologies, finance teams can significantly enhance their efficiency and accuracy. Automation reduces the need for manual data entry and repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable time for strategic analysis. Advanced analytics, on the other hand, provides deeper insights into financial data, enabling better decision-making and forecasting. This combination allows finance functions to identify trends, detect anomalies and generate actionable insights in real-time. Moreover, the implementation of these technologies fosters a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, ensuring that the finance function remains agile and responsive to changing business needs. Ultimately, leveraging advanced analytics and automation transforms the finance function into a strategic asset.
Business partnering
Enhancing strategic business partnering is a critical priority for future-focused finance functions. This shift involves moving beyond traditional finance roles to becoming integral business partners who contribute to strategic decision-making. Finance teams achieve this by aligning their objectives with the broader enterprise strategy, ensuring that financial insights support overall business goals. Embracing a data-driven culture is key, as it enables finance professionals to provide proactive, value-adding insights. By implementing the right technology and analytical tools, finance functions can offer real-time, predictive insights that drive strategic initiatives. This partnership approach not only enhances the credibility and influence of the finance function but also supports the organisation in achieving sustainable growth and competitive advantage.
Agile operations
Building an agile and resilient finance operation is essential for the modern finance function. In today’s dynamic business environment, finance teams must be able to quickly adapt to changes in the market, regulatory landscape and technological advancements. This requires developing flexible service delivery models that can scale and pivot as needed. Optimising organisational design is also crucial, ensuring that roles, responsibilities and workflows are aligned with strategic objectives. Additionally, continuous learning and development programmes help build a workforce that is both skilled and adaptable. By fostering a culture of resilience and agility, finance functions can better manage risks, seize opportunities and support long-term business success. This proactive approach ensures that the finance function remains a vital driver of organisational resilience and growth.
Finance Transformation services
- Finance strategy
- Process automation
- Organisational design
- Business partnering
- Treasury consulting
Finance strategy
Create a blueprint of your modern finance vision and strategy to transform your people, processes and technology. This approach aims to cut costs and improve operational effectiveness. We help you define a clear finance vision and strategy, exploring the possibilities of a modern finance function through interactive and hands-on workshops. These workshops are designed to help your team innovate and transform rapidly. We also develop and implement a future global service delivery model, including shared service centres, outsourcing and centres of excellence. Additionally, we assess your current performance, benchmarking it against your peers to evaluate the effectiveness, maturity and costs of your finance function.
Process automation
Implement strategies to reduce operational complexity, streamline processes and optimise the use of technology for your core finance processes: procure-to-pay, record-to-report and order-to-cash. This approach leads to improved efficiency, control, quality, lower costs and increased capacity for business partnering and collaboration. We optimise and redesign your core finance processes and policies, leveraging PwC’s leading key performance indicators (KPIs) and digital solutions. We also assess and implement leading technologies to automate and transform these processes. Our strategies enhance working capital and liquidity by improving transactional efficiencies and minimise financial risk, including foreign exchange, interest rate, counterparty credit and commodity risks.
Organisational design
Organisations face various challenges as they address issues around organisational design, HR due diligence, culture and behaviour change, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Often, the solution is to make a strategic hire at the board or executive level. However, many businesses struggle to hire talent to deliver on the recommendations of large change projects.
Our Workforce team partners with CEOs and board members in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to find and hire top talent.
Business partnering
Evolve your analytics capabilities from descriptive to predictive insights by aligning objectives with enterprise strategy, enabling a data-driven culture, and implementing the right technology and infrastructure. We improve the effectiveness of your planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and management and statutory reporting processes to enable better analytics, insights and action. We assess and implement leading technologies to automate and transform your core reporting processes, leveraging cloud technology and predictive capabilities. Our approach accurately determines the cost of production or service, driving objective, data-driven discussions about business performance. We enhance data utilisation and embed analytics and AI models into your operations to deliver greater value to your business partners.
Treasury consulting
Optimise your treasury capability through in-depth analysis and technology transformation to deliver cash savings and treasury efficiency improvements. We define your treasury operating model and provide support during mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures. Our services include restructuring and optimising your banking, improving cash forecasting and liquidity, and developing cash pooling and in-house banking. Additionally, we implement treasury management systems (TMS) to enhance your treasury performance. Our approach also improves cash, treasury, payments and bank connectivity systems as part of enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation.
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