Overview
In addition to managing risks, increasing organizational agility and tackling organizational skill and leadership deficiencies, CFOs must focus on cost cutting and profit improvement. IBM's finance and administration business transformation services, including finance strategy and finance operations improvement, are designed to deliver cost savings through faster, more successful and enduring business transformation. Your finance organization can leverage the expertise and scale of strategic partners, combining people, process transformation and technology innovation to achieve established business outcomes. |
Finance operations improvement
Architecting change. Shaping strategy. Driving business value. CFOs have always been the stewards of financial data for the enterprise, but now you have to do more. You must use this critical data to deliver high-level insight into business performance, risk and growth. And it's not easy.
Forward thinking enterprises locate operations and functions anywhere in the world based on the right cost, the right skills, and the right business environment.
The finance operations improvement services are designed to help finance organizations execute their strategic plans. IBM can help redesign key business and financial processes, restructure organizations to improve overall efficiency and responsiveness, and eliminate non-value-added tasks through outsourcing and shared services.
Business challenges
Are you able to generate data that is focused and relevant for driving action?
Have you adopted data standards and best practices to ensure efficiency?
Do you have numerous gaps and inaccuracies with financial status reports?
Are your annual budget figures derived from various older systems with disparate data?
Is a lack of sound business management policies and practices inhibiting growth?
Finance operations services that we offer
Finance Strategy and Roadmap development
Finance Function Maturity Assessment
Finance Function Benchmarking
Finance process design and re-engineering
Finance organization design, skills and competency rationalization
Finance Shared Services design and implementation
Finance Performance Management Center of Excellence design and implementation
Finance process outsourcing
Financial System application implementation / remediation (SAP, Oracle/PeopleSoft/Siebel/Hyperion)
Why IBM
With more than 4,100 financial management resources located across the globe, IBM has a strong record of serving as a trusted advisor to CFOs and finance leaders. We offer deep finance function expertise coupled with effective technology implementation and integration capability.
We offer proven finance transformation tools and experience, such as SAP, Oracle and Cognos. IBM financial management consulting services brings strong partnerships; we are the number one SAP Consulting Provider and SAP's first Global Alliance Partner. We bring experienced IBM finance executives to meet with clients, including former CFOs, controllers and CIOs. Our consultants have worked with 75% of the global Fortune 50 and 80% of the FT 50.
