Empowering Finance at the Speed of AI

How a dynamic new model for managed services is enabling companies to elevate their finance operations and unlock more value.

Navigating Finance’s Mounting Challenges

Business is moving faster, and changes are coming from every direction. Is your finance team keeping up? Learn how modern managed services for finance are helping many companies streamline operations, increase agility, and accelerate growth.

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Navigating Today’s Finance Issues

In today’s business climate of permanent volatility, leaders face mounting challenges on all fronts: rising costs, rapid technology changes, talent gaps, fierce competition, and more. Navigating this constant state of flux is especially complex for finance teams.

Indeed, finance leaders are under immense pressure to reduce costs, ensure regulatory compliance, inform strategic investments, and deliver timely insights. At the same time, they’re being asked to support innovation and leverage new technologies—for both the company and their own operations.

Yet budget, bandwidth, and talent challenges continue to be a drag on innovation and growth. Additionally, is it fair to expect that finance teams can close the books, manage transactions and regulators —and find time to pioneer new AI capabilities?

Instead, many companies are moving to a modern managed services model to transform their finance operations.

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Navigating Finance’s Mounting Challenges

Business is moving faster, and changes are coming from every direction. Is your finance team keeping up? Learn how modern managed services for finance are helping many companies streamline operations, increase agility, and accelerate growth.

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A New Approach to Solving 5 Persistent Finance Challenges

The finance function is undergoing rapid change. New technology and data innovations offer transformative opportunities to improve processes, increase automation, and deliver new value. But these opportunities remain out of reach for many companies as finance leaders struggle with 5 persistent challenges:

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Rapidly changing business environments that require finance to adapt and evolve as a business partner

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Rising costs for both the company and their own finance operations—and a limited ability to invest in new solutions

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Disparate systems and data that create persistent data problems and smother innovation efforts

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Inadequate insights that hamper the company’s ability to innovate, move faster, and stay competitive

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Talent gaps as finance teams struggle to upgrade skills and source new people

Modern Managed Services: A Path to Agility and Growth

To flip the script and move faster, many companies are embracing modern managed services. They’re using this enhanced new service delivery model to elevate their key finance functions, resolve pain points, improve productivity and profitability, and accelerate growth. In the process, they’re nimbly bypassing many of their legacy roadblocks and getting access to leading-edge technologies, processes, and professionals that allow them to better navigate the ever-more-complex business landscape.

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What sets apart good from great finance leaders? It's their ability to harness cutting-edge technology to drive efficiency and foster growth.

Begin your journey towards AI-driven success with KPMG Finance as a Service

Our finance professionals design and deploy solutions that meet each client’s unique needs in the three core finance functions: transactions, financial close, and financial planning and analysis. These solutions are embedded with the latest AI, cloud, and enterprise data capabilities from the start. And, every custom solution leverages our significant functional and industry experience. 
 

We then fully manage these core operations on an ongoing basis, working closely with clients to continuously optimize costs, generate impactful insights, and increase productivity and profitability.


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