The Finance function has had to change and increase its performance in order to satisfy executive and investor requirements. Key to the organisation's management, Finance provides precise and relevant information in a short timeframe. In today’s turbulent economic times, all accounting, management and financial processes are impacted, and must evolve in order to constantly adapt to changes.

In addition to being adept with figures, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) must now also:

• Be a true business-partner within Top management
• Devise strategies that will appeal to bankers, shareholders and investors
• Head large multidisciplinary or even multicultural teams (controlling, internal communication, auditing, etc.)
• Manage or co-manage with IT Departments, large cross-functional sites within the Company
  

In view of these new concerns, Business & Decision has devised a specific offering based on the following main themes:
 
Business & Decision provides a dedicated offering to improve the Function's performance

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• Improve efficiency of Finance function and accounting processes
• Support the Finance function's transformation
• Costing or control over costs and profitability
• Performance Management

 Financial function management

• Management of Financial and Management audit repositories (Master Data Management and Data Quality)
• Optimisation of the corporate vs. operational management audit function (ABC, BAM)
• Implementation of governance (project management assistance, IT relationship, administration, change management)

Closing process optimisation (Fast Close)

• Standardisation and optimisation of subsidiaries' closing processes/best practices identification
• Impact on ERP and decision support information systems

Improvement of your financial platform’s processes and performance (Maturity Index)

• Diagnosis of reporting, planning, budget planning and consolidation processes and systems through 3 diagnosis modules (Planning Maturity Index, Reporting Maturity Index and Consolidation Maturity Index)
• Coordination of financial management systems (EPM, CPM, BPM) with other business areas: Capex planning, HR, commercial, logistics, etc.
  

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