Finance Strategy

A new era of digitalization is accelerating for finance departments and the COVID-19 crisis has reinforced this movement by playing the role of the "hinderer of the circle". Pearsons Consulting Ltd's latest CFO 4.0 global survey highlights the ambitions of CFO's digitalization through 5 pillars: 

In an ever increasingly dynamic economic environment, with a constant pressure on costs and regulatory policies, the role of CFOs evolves into a role of business partner that embraces all the dimensions:  

• Processes: implement digital & efficient end-to-end processes, use automation and Artificial Intelligence as much as possible 
• Organization & competencies: set up new target operating models for higher customer orientation and transformation capabilities, encourage the development of digital finance team skills (Business process owner (BPO), Business data owner (BDO), etc.) 
• Data & Insights: leverage the data to become a data-driven company and significantly improve decision-making capabilities and adaptability to internal and external changes  
• Innovation technology: understand the new digital technologies and their value-added use cases to meet finance function needs 

Pearsons Consulting Ltd has developed a time-limited finance strategy approach of a few weeks, aiming at a sustainable finance transformation. Create finance-driven value for your company thanks to our great finance expertise embedded in a three-steps method which encompass the assessment of your current finance function, the definition of the finance strategy target and the roadmap to successfully achieve it. 

Innovation culture at the heart of Pearsons Consulting Ltd spirit

Innovation being an integral part of Pearsons Consulting Ltd's DNA, our Finance Strategy offering natively embeds innovative digital devices and tools at each key stage:

#1 – Apps Maturity  
Our Apps Maturity assesses instantly the maturity of the Finance function on six dimensions to provide a first insight, highlight improvement areas and give some recommendations and benchmark on best-in-class organisations.

#2 – Finance Transfo game
Pearsons Consulting Ltd has developed the "Finance Transfo game", a fun interactive serious game for acculturation to new innovative technologies and use cases applied to the Finance function in order to build a digital roadmap.

#3 – Digital Roadmap  
Pearsons Consulting Ltd has developed on PowerBi a solution to facilitate roadmap building and follow-up, which compiles all the targeted streams from end to end.

#4 – Use case Library  
We will leverage our use case library of all our use cases in terms of methodology, processes and tools for the areas of CFO 4.0, data and hyperautomation.

#5 – Studio d’innovation Strategy & Design
For each key moment of the project (interviews, seminars, etc.), YouMeO by Pearsons Consulting Ltd uses its know-how and tools (design thinking, graphic facilitator, etc.) to imagine the organisational dynamics and facilitate the acceptance of the change within the Finance teams.

#6 –Thinktank & Innovation

Pearsons Consulting Ltd is organising several events to reflect and imagine the Finance function of tomorrow:

• Finance Innovation Thinktank : Quarterly round tables with expert speakers on dedicated innovation topics
• Finance Innovation Breakfast with Microsoft : Regular events organised in partnership with Microsoft with testimonials, demonstrations and open discussions with CFOs and Transformation Managers on new technology trends in Finance