Investment in finance automation and having the answer on the
ready has been a high priority for CFOs the past few years... it
also comes with an unexpected "benefit"... the need for
being "Always On."
Oddly, the fight to get a strategic voice at the round table
through the lens of finance has created the need for CFOs and their
teams to be engaged 24/7 on data analytics and driving insights to
actions. Now more than ever, given the advances in automation
(digitize this), CFO teams have more information at the ready (or
are expected to). The movement from keeper of the books, cash
guardian, and budgets has rapidly moved to the new reality - the
global business environment does not allow for sleeping. Building
dashboards and automation of reporting is a good start... adding
great FP&A teammates and developing flexible business
intelligence tools is a must-have. Now, how do you eliminate the
process bottlenecks, break silos, standardize / simplify
reporting... to get
