Article | July 30, 2020
Customer Journey : Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
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Cassandra is the CFO for a chemical processing plant. Her role requires bringing financial discipline and stability through best practices. In Cassandra's day-to-day schedule, she uses financial reporting and analysis to monitor and communicate growth initiatives to executives across the organization. As CFO she is leading the team in developing strategic financial initiatives that enable growth and profitability.
As financial regulations increase, the need for a more robust system is becoming more evident for Cassandra and her team. She is looking for a ERP that can perform Pricing Strategies, Financial modeling and ensure compliance is maintained . Additionally, Cassandra needs a system in place that can help her team stay on top of GDPR regulations as they are updated and assist with internal and external yearly audits. It is critical to generate reports for executives that detail the health of the companies finances using real time data. Cassandra and her team need to compile these reports and have them in presentation format without taking a huge amount of time, and know that having an embedded Power BI may be what they are looking for.
63%
of respondents said that CFOs were responsible for measuring Financial Performance of transformation initiatives.
Source : Per Mckinsey
65%
stated that CFO's responsibility will be most valuable for future transformations.
Source : Per Mckinsey
THE CFO's JOURNEY
01
WHY DO WE NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE?
- Manual Accounting processes causing bottlenecks in the financial close process
02
WHAT ARE YOUR PAINPOINTS?
- Our team needs visibility with real time analytics
- Using multiple tools to support our business needs
03
WHAT WOULD BE A GAME CHANGER?
- Leverage Machine Learning for financial forecasting
04
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Keep up with frequently changing regulatory
05
WHAT WE DO?
- Automating processes and using advance analytics. Getting data in real-time
06
WHO WOULD BENEFIT?
- AP and AR Clerks processing payments and invoices daily
- Accounting Manager who need Budget and Forecasting data real time
- CEO and COO who need access to financial reporting for the entire organization
07
WHAT ABOUT COMPLIANCE?
- Dynamics 365 for Finance comes with built in Configurable Tax and Compliance Reporting
- Regulatory discovery and alerting service
08
ENHANCED FEATURES IN D365 FOR FINANCE
- Revenue Recognition
- Budgeting and Forecast
- Manager multiple legal entities and Consolidations
09
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN DYNAMICS 365 FOR FINANCE?
- Financial reporting & analytics with Power BI integration
- Configurable e-invoicing and payments
- Project Accounting
MAKE THE MOVE TO DYNAMICS 365 FINANCE TODAY
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