Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Finance

The Financial Close Process

Fast and clean. These two words define the ideal financial close process. This standard is held up as a measure of a finance or accounting department’s effectiveness. Companies are expected to get the financial close process done within a standard business week. This demonstrates competence, resource efficiency, and good management. An efficient financial consolidation and close process does two vital things.

Accelerating the Banking Transformation with Digital Assurance

The banking business is fast evolving, and individual banks that serve retail, commercial, small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMEs), or wealth management firms must make rapid changes to become “digital-first” enterprises. However, making such a transformation entails enormous risks. Banks that get digital transformation wrong risk damaging client relationships and losing market share to digital-only competitors who are more agile and technologically capable.

Everything You Need to Know About FinOps

FinOps is a solution for controlling operational costs in a cloud environment and offers ways for teams to manage their cloud costs, wherein everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage. FinOps term is coined by combining Finance + DevOps. It’s an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice. In practice, FinOps means establishing performance indicators on an organization’s cloud costs based on service, business unit, environment, etc.

The Need and Impact of Digital Banking Units

Banks are free to adopt an in-sourced or out-sourced model for operations of the digital banking segment, including DBUs. This gives the banks an opportunity to experiment with disruptive technologies in the cloud, one thing at a time. With so many innovations happening out there by fintech’s, banks do not have to bother about getting them to work with their core banking system, picking up best-of-breed solutions available on the cloud. The solutions tried and tested can then be added to the bank’s core banking system, says Vishnu Vardhan Vankayala, Associate Principal Consultant, Cigniti Technologies.

The Need and Impact of Digital Banking Units

Digital banking involves the digitization of all traditional banking products, processes, and activities to serve customers through online channels. Banking that is done through the digital platform without any paperwork like account opening forms, cheques, pay-in slips, and so on is referred to as digital banking. It relies on high-level process automation, web-based services, and APIs to provide banks and their customers with high levels of cost efficiency, security, and flexibility.

Find Your Story With CXO and Longview

The smart pairing that will turn your numbers into dynamic C-level insights Financial and tax management has evolved enormously since the advent of computational technology. These days, you can’t just get by on spreadsheets and ledgers – everywhere you look you’ll hear the buzz of the age of automation. Your data needs to be sophisticated, offering essential storytelling to help support strategic insights.

Essential Close Automation for CXO

Automation is your key to success in Finance and this includes your close. Anyone who has been through a close knows a clunky one is painful, and it arrives routinely whether you are prepared or not. A recent survey by Hanover Research found that a staggering 49% of Finance professionals felt unable to execute their tasks completely because their current manual processes were too time consuming. And those manual processes impacted their ability to execute essential tasks efficiently and effectively.

Top Financial Reporting Challenges and How to Solve Them

Being a finance professional is stimulating and rewarding, but it comes with a set of unique challenges. The accuracy and timeliness of information is essential, yet for most organizations, the volume and complexity of financial information is growing continuously. Simply working harder doesn’t seem to solve the problem; finance professionals must work smarter, applying the right tools to get the job done quickly, efficiently, and accurately.