As digitalization has accelerated everywhere, CFOs and their leadership team of finance and risk professionals are now looked upon as the organization that will drive resilience and enable business model innovation across the enterprise.  They are now at the center of all decisions especially when uncharted business forces arise that change their company’s customers’ expectations and behaviors...

Soft close, hard close, legal close, managerial close, group close – Finance organizations around the world are using software tools to help meet deadlines and expectations around “closing the books”.  Improving your financial close requires a cohesive and well-managed strategy to manage the systems, people, and processes, from transactional accounting processes to entity close...

Much of my time, conversations and thoughts over the last few months have revolved around three little words. No, not the three little words you may immediately think of, but rather three words that will be close to the heart of many FP&A professionals right now; Agility, Responsiveness, and Resilience...

Over the past year, as the world was going through a major disruption, many companies had to re-assess their priorities and adapt to a new reality. Amidst high volatility and uncertainty, it became key for them to ensure sound digital processes were in place, fueled by home office working, magnified changes of consumer behaviors and a tougher macro-economic environment...

In these times of rapidly evolving risks, organizations can no longer turn a blind eye to manual, siloed and disaggregated approaches to risk management. Organizations must transform their GRC processes along with their transformation of core SAP systems to remain resilient...

We often hear the advice of analysts that all companies need to rethink, reshape or even completely change their business models. But what exactly does it mean? And is this relevant for all types of products, even my own, which never have been sold differently than just being sold to customers?

The growing risks related to cyber threats, data protection, and new privacy laws are driving leading organizations to identify and put in place effective responses to mitigate these risks. As your business engages in digital transformation and moves more applications to the cloud, you need security to be smarter, automated, and embedded...

When you think of strategic business priorities, you don’t often think of trade and tax as being top of mind for the average business person; however, those who lead with vision understand the importance of both as they touch many parts of the organization and directly impact margins and performance...