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 strategy
Do you have the vision, strategy and blueprint in place to support your changing business needs?
Today’s CFO’s need to consider innovation as the key placeholder for finance transformation and growth. This can be accomplished through partnership and collaboration, as well as analyzing and predicting future risks and rewards.
The role of the CFO requires the ability to operate at both the strategic level and the lowest level of detail across the whole organization. It demands a 360-degree view: Backwards to report. Alert to current conditions. And ability to fathom the future to plan accordingly.
Finance strategy services are at the core of the IBM financial management solution set. Using diagnostic and strategic tools for profit improvement and modeling, IBM can help your enterprise assess its organizational design.
Business challenges
Does your company have a governance framework around information integrity?
Do you want to strive for a "finance on demand" organization that is responsive, variable, focused and resilient?
Would you like to be more responsive to key decision makers with the right information, when and where they need it?
Is your enterprise able to effectively manage risk and opportunity?
How can you focus information on the roles of individuals to improve productivity and collaboration?
Finance strategy services that we offer
Finance function vision and blueprint
Finance diagnostic
Strategic profit improvement/cost effectiveness and rationalization
Finance process benchmarking/American Productivity and Quality consortium (APQC) alliance
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.
