Skip to main content

Finance and administration (F&A) outsourcing

Gain more than operational savings with a proven, self-paced approach to F&A process optimization

Overview
Featured resource

Our podcast and an article from "The Financial Times, Ltd." explore the benefits of business process outsourcing in an uncertain economy.

arrow

Register now

Tailoring the scope of process improvements to reflect your requirements

Chief financial officers continually strive to improve business process effectiveness in response to economic volatility, pressures to reduce costs and the requirement to meet stakeholder expectations.

As keeper of an organization’s capital, F&A often leads the effort to rationalize costs while increasing value across the enterprise. Global sourcing, with its reduced risk of implementation and improved focus on certainty of outcomes, is changing the way companies are approaching business transformation.

F&A solutions are implemented within an integrated, end-to-end operating structure to provide flexibility and scalability across multiple sites, processes and organizations. Using a proven, collaborative approach our solutions optimize your F&A processes to help you reduce operating costs, accelerate productivity improvement, speed the release of working capital, mitigate risk and maximize stakeholder value.

F&A solutions from IBM are helping organizations everywhere streamline their finance processes for improved efficiency, control, compliance and risk mitigation while enabling continuous improvement and end-to-end process transformation.

Whether your requirements are large, small, or somewhere in between, whether you have shared services or decentralized processes, whether you have rationalized your enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or are about to begin, IBM has the tools, services and experience to collaborate with you in F&A process transformation across your enterprise—starting where you choose and proceeding at the pace you want.

Optimizing F&A processes with a proven flexible approach

We can help you optimize and integrate the full scope of your F&A operations, including transaction processing (accounts payable, travel and entertainment-expense management and accounts receivable), record-to-report, performance management, decision support and capital platform management. Our solutions provide:

  • broad global presence
  • domain and industry expertise
  • innovative technology to optimize processes
  • consolidation of disparate processes and systems
  • process standardization, simplification, and automation
  • access to centers of expertise around the globe
  • ongoing measurement and monitoring at granular levels

Our solutions are built on a framework of operational excellence that leverages IBM’s expertise, technology and global resources to help you optimize performance, reduce operating costs, improve recovery of working capital and achieve long-term strategic benefits.

 

 

Also recommended


Printable version
E-mail this page

We're here to help

Chat now
E-mail us

or call us at
1-800-IBM-7080
Mention 108AE08W


IDC Customer Survey Ranks IBM #1 BPO Provider in U.S.

Excerpt from "IDC Customer Needs and Strategies Report"

Read the article  (87KB)

Get Adobe® Reader®


IdeaWatch CFO
IdeaWatch CFO: Articles, research and leading-edge points of view to help you succeed.

Articles, research and leading-edge points of view to help you succeed.

Subscribe now!


IBM and Unilever win Best BPO Relationship Award 2009
Men shaking hands

Press release