Leverage finance modernisation to focus on driving strategic value

Modern Finance functions are continuing to drive change across the people, process and performance pillars to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

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The pace of business transformation has accelerated as a result of the global pandemic. This has forced organisations to respond with agility in order to remain competitive.   

This disruption has also accelerated the change in Finance, with the need to rapidly evaluate multiple scenarios, support business agility and act fast. Finance needs to transform and adapt to the new world where new skills, behaviours and ways of working are required to be a leading Finance function.

Finance needs to lead from the front and accelerate its transformation to drive strategic value:

  • Do more with less through automation  

  • Standardise data, reporting and processes

  • Provide insightful, data driven analysis

  • Be proactive rather than reactive

The Finance Digital Workplace tools, developed by PwC and enabled by Microsoft are designed to improve team productivity while maximising the investment in your existing tools by activating our pre configured business solutions built using the Microsoft apps.

Explore our suite of services and solutions to modernise your Finance function with the power of Microsoft.

Adopt a modern finance agenda to drive digital transformation

Microsoft Teams Planner

Preparing for monthly finance updated or quarterly and annual statements – financial processes involve a range of communication and collaboration between the finance department and the rest of the organisation. Microsoft Teams pre-configured task management for finance functions improves communication, collaboration and coordination, making it a much smoother experience for financial controllers.

Simply add team members to the tasks and get immediate insights into workload and capacity over the calendar period. Use the tool to get real-time updates during the process and identify bottlenecks early to avoid delays.

  • Transparency of individual workload

  • Early insights and redistribution of tasks to team members

  • Real time visibility of task status

  • Easy management of progress with tool based completion tracker

  • Tool-based scheduling of key activities

  • Transparent task management with start- and end dates

Optimised Power Bi Dashboards

Validate your financials with more insight and delve deeper into the financial details of your organisation. The pre configured Power Bi Dashboards provide you with instant insights and make data-powered business decisions through business intelligence. The dashboards update in real time and enable quick mitigation actions for the management in case the KPIs are over the threshold.

  • Immediate overview for Finance Manager
    Reduction of time spent to extract reports in different modules
  • Centralised Dashboard with all relevant KPIs
    Real-time updates for quick mitigation actions

  • Link to Microsoft Teams Planner
    Automated inclusion of mitigation actions in teams planner

Microsoft Teams Virtual Agent

The pre-configured Microsoft Virtual Agent uses a databases of expert knowledge to offer advice and answer the most common questions for your financial controllers from across the organisation. This frees up time and reduces the need for clarification meetings. If a non auto-answerable question arises, the Microsoft Virtual Agent automatically creates a backlog for the financial controllers to handle efficiently all together.

  • Users get immediate feedback to questions
    Reduction of errors and need for corrections

  • Chat bot capability in Microsoft Teams
    Easy interaction for all users

  • Prioritised Backlog of unanswered questions
    More efficient handling of questions and reduction of meetings

Contact us

Mathea  Beck

Mathea Beck

Consulting Transformation Lead, PwC Australia

Tel: +61 477 359 811

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