The Age of Agility Demands You Lose That Outdated ERP System
The challenge for many CFOs is that the technologies and processes they currently have in place for planning may actually hinder their efforts to achieve agility.
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News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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How Financial Services Industry CFOs Can Better Adapt to Change
Shift happens—again and again. Yet to succeed in an ever-changing business environment, financial services industry CFOs must drive better decision making and flexibility by uniting operational and financial data in an enterprise management cloud.
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Why Both Technology and Soft Skills Are Now Crucial for CFOs
The evolving role of the CFO means that rising finance leaders must now be fluent in technology and human relationships. Panelists at a Fortune virtual conversation shared their unique approaches to leadership.
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CFOs Expect Robust Growth Over the Next Year, Look to Meet Challenges
Finance leaders say they’re bullish on their companies, and want to improve environmental, science, and governance (ESG) reporting and diversity and inclusion efforts, according to PwC’s latest Pulse Survey.
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Why CFOs Should Expect More than Speed From Their Cloud Provider
CFOs need a cloud provider that helps them quickly close their books and report results. Yet they also should be provided with the needed insights to be able to clearly articulate their strategic vision and discuss future growth opportunities. Read our Q&A with Terrance Wampler, general manager, Workday Financial Management.
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How Scenario Planning Future-Proofs Finance
Understanding a company’s key variables and how to react to different outcomes can help leaders respond to future challenges—and succeed in turbulent times.
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Where CFOs Are Prioritizing Resources to Enable a Frictionless Finance Future
A Workday global survey reveals how finance leaders are looking to invest in digital transformation to address growing data challenges and emerging topics.
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Global Study: Finance Leaders Reveal Key Goals and Challenges for Driving Digital Acceleration
CFOs and other finance leaders recognize that future business survival requires greater agility in planning, reporting, and resource-capacity management. And while organizations will employ their own strategy for meeting these goals, a recent survey reveals that most leaders prioritize the adoption of smart technologies and cross-functional skills sharing.
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Looking Forward: How CFOs Can Leverage Data Analytics to Guide Their Companies
A recent Deloitte report finds high quality data is a top priority for a vast majority of business leaders, but deploying the right solutions is its own challenge. A recent webinar examines real-world examples of what digital transformation can achieve.
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Harvard Study: Finance Faces Long Road to Data and Analytics Maturity
This article looks at a global survey of 162 finance managers and senior executives that reveals significant conflicts between finance leaders’ aspirations and how they do their day-to-day work.
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Looking Forward: 8 Trends Impacting the Office of the CFO
Rakesh Duggal, senior manager at Deloitte, connected with Annette Melatti, Workday’s senior director, solution marketing for the office of the CFO, to explore the trends shaping the future of finance and to discuss how finance leaders can incorporate them into their everyday work.
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Workday Named a 2021 Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises for Fifth Year in a Row
We’re delighted to announce that Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises. We’ve continued to invest in our unique architecture and intelligent data foundation to ensure our customers have the robust analytics and automation they need to respond to a changing world.
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A CFO's Guide to Accelerating Digital Initiatives
How can a business accelerate its move to digital finance in a post-pandemic world? Here are four areas that are driving value, and should be on every finance leader’s radar in 2021 and beyond.
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Equiniti and Netflix: Finance Transformation in the Age of Disruption
Finance leaders from Equiniti and Netflix share how they pivoted to virtually operating their company’s financials when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and how they’re better preparing for future disruption.
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How Finance Must Rethink Skills to Thrive in the Digital Era
The post-pandemic world, when it arrives, will transform many aspects of business as usual. As a result, CEOs will turn to finance leaders who not only have accounting experience, but also wider operational backgrounds and a broader mix of business experience.
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How Intelligent Automation Will Transform the Finance Function
As businesses seek to rebound from the global pandemic, the rise of intelligent automation will change the way organizations operate forever. This article examines how technologies such as machine learning will reshape the office of the CFO.
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How Veolia Unlocked Finance Agility During a Global Crisis
Even during a pandemic, many forward-thinking businesses have continued with their digital transformation initiatives. Yael Leblanc, group finance transformation director at Veolia, a global environmental services company headquartered in France, discusses why the shift to a new finance system proceeded as planned despite the global lockdown.
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Workday Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions
We’re proud to once again be recognized for our completeness of vision and ability to execute, especially at such a pivotal moment for businesses and economies.
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3 Finance Insights Guiding the Way to Business Recovery
Leaders need good quality data to make real-time decisions and steer their businesses on a path to normality. This article looks at three key insights finance leaders should be delivering to the business, and why they are so important today.
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Results of Workday’s 2020 CFO Indicator Survey: Agility Is Everything
When finance leaders were cast into the chaos caused by the global pandemic, many discovered that in the face of economic tumult, the ability to operate with agility is exactly what’s needed to prevent their businesses from capsizing.
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CFO Checklist: Guiding Your Business Through a Successful Return to Work
Finance leaders are in a critical position to help assess the options and impacts associated with returning to the workplace, including how the business can grow and react differently in the future.
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How Equiniti Reshaped Finance and HR with Workday
As businesses rebound from the outbreak of COVID-19, the need for agility intensifies. Robert Bloor, group financial controller at Equiniti, describes how his organisation transformed its finance and HR systems to support continuous change.
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Deep Dive: 4 Steps to Achieving Finance Agility
As the business world shifts toward recovery and the concept of a new normal, agility is fast-becoming priority number one for finance teams. Here, we take a closer look at four elements of finance agility and how businesses should be thinking about them today.
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How the Pandemic Amplifies Demand for Finance and HR Collaboration
The pandemic has accelerated long-standing business trends and forced leaders to take a hard look at priorities. Here’s how the partnerships between finance and HR are playing out amid the coronavirus crisis.
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CFOs Play a Powerful Role in Continuous Planning
Having the tools for data-driven decision making enables organizations to plan, pivot, and build strategic partnerships that support business continuity, growth, and changes in the healthcare industry.
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Workday Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises for Fourth Year in a Row
We believe Workday’s ability to achieve this recognition year after year is based on our intensive focus on delivering world-class customer service and our reputation as a trusted global partner.
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Looking Forward: Best Practices for Financial Scenario Modeling
As organizations try to make sense of an economic landscape that continues to evolve, business planning becomes more important than ever. Kinnari Desai, senior director of corporate finance at Workday, discusses scenario modeling and the importance of agility in planning.
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How the CFO Can Tackle Uncertainty and Persistent Change
The finance team is at the forefront of leading a business through uncertain times. What should CFOs be focused on? In this article, we look at five key areas to prioritize.
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9 Things to Know About Buying a Financial Management System in 2020
Here’s a quick guide to the new demands of the finance function, what you need to know about financial management systems, and how the right financial system can help companies adapt to a changing world.
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A Perfect Storm: The Macro Forces Impacting Global Companies
This article is the first in a series that examines the macro trends forcing business leaders to rethink some of their most fundamental approaches, and explains how the CFO can play a pivotal role in guiding the business through this turbulence.
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Aon’s Controller on Delivering a Fully Remote Financial Close
In the midst of a global pandemic, Aon plc delivered its first-ever remote financial close. We spoke with Mike Neller, Aon’s controller, to learn more.
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