As the leaders of today’s finance functions continue to strive to prove their relevance and add more value to the business, they are shifting their focus to those activities that contribute most significantly to supporting better business decisions that improve overall business performance. The biggest challenge lies in creating the efficiencies needed to gather and process basic financial data and deliver traditional financial outputs, while at the same time redeploying their limited resources to drive business decision support activities.

As part of a global network of professionals, our Financial Management team can help make the finance function more efficient, effective and better aligned with your business strategy so that the organization can realize and sustain value over the long term. We advise you on optimizing business intelligence and analytics to access the right information at the right time in order to make more effective business decisions.

How KPMG can help

We help develop and implement technology and process improvement methodologies that transform the finance function, close books faster, sharpen your finance operating models and make finance operations more efficient. We provide a range of Financial Management services under our three service networks efficient finance operations, effective decision support and finance strategy and transformation.

Efficient finance operations

We help clients deliver specific improvements in order to unlock value and resources, freeing up time for improved decision support activities. It should be based on a robust platform of integrated operational and transactional finance activities.

Our solutions include:

• Quality close and integrating reporting
• Finance process optimization
• Finance function benchmarking
• Finance shared services and outsourcing

Effective decision support

We help clients deliver a fit-for-purpose financial planning and performance management framework which empowers the business to make better decisions.

Our solutions include:

• Cash and working capital management
• Cost management
• Financial information management
• Financial performance management
• Planning budgeting and forecasting

Finance Strategy and Transformation (FST)

Our FST team help clients to define finance’s role in driving strategic business imperatives. We help CFO’s to clearly articulate their vision and strategy, analyze and develop a future state operating model that is fit for purpose.
This involves a wide ranging review of the finance function, matching performance to business requirements and diagnosing areas for improvement across the finance landscape.

Our solutions include:

• Business strategy alignment
• Finance business partnering
• Finance function recovery
• Finance integration and separation
• Finance organization design
• Finance target operating model
• Finance transformation
• Finance vision and strategy