CFO Insights: Achieving High Performance Through Finance Business Process Outsourcing

1. The Finance Outsourcing Landscape.

Transforming the finance function through outsourcing.

The impact of finance BPO on the corporate agenda.

The CFO and finance transformation.

Why move to shared services?

Outsourcing: Who is doing what?

CFO concerns.

The outsourcing promise.

CFO insights.

2. Creating an Operating Model for High Performance.

Changing to a global business model based on brands and technology.

What is a ‘high-performance’ company?

Differentiated operating models.

Innovation in consumer goods and retail.

Coping with major upheaval.

The pharmaceutical networked model.

So what do you outsource – and why?

Strategies for change and innovation.

CFO insights.

3. Suppliers: Options for Service Delivery.

Considering future business partners.

Trends in business process outsourcing.

How far should you go with outsourcing?

The move to multisourcing.

Choosing your supplier combination.

Shaping the outsourcing relationship.

Planning a delivery strategy.

CFO insights.

4. Scoping: Deciding What to Outsource.

Developing a high-performance finance function with superior alignment to the competitive imperatives of the business.

Where to cut the process.

Purchase-to-pay.

Order-to-cash.

Credit and receivables management.

General accounting, reporting, and decision support.

The integrated F&A outsource proposition.

CFO insights.

5 Global Sourcing of Service Delivery.

Migrating to a global delivery network.

Three ways to source globally.

Mapping the offshore landscape.

Using geography to mitigate risk.

Sourcing choices.

Outsourcing due diligence.

Emerging global shared service center networks.

Technology shapes the future.

CFO insights.

6.Pricing and Shaping Your Deal.

Shaping the deal for a co-sourcing.

Pulling the levers of shareholder value.

Shaping the contractual relationship.

Pricing options.

Pricing and contracting principles.

Tax considerations.

The negotiation lifecycle.

CFO insights.

7. Stakeholders: Achieving Buy-In.

Reaching stakeholders through open and honest communications.

Lead from the top: The CEO and CFO working together.

Your new stakeholder: Your outsource partner.

Third-party advisors.

Employees: Treating them with care and integrity.

The role of HR in outsourcing.

Communications strategy.

CFO insights.

8. Ensuring a Successful Transition.

Transitioning to a European outsourced shared service center.

Transition framework.

Transition management.

Detailed implementation planning.

People strategy.

Communication strategies.

Leading the transition.

CFO insights.

9. Reducing Risk with Outsourcing.

Weighing up risk and outsourcing.

Identifying the risks.

What can go wrong in the contracting phase?

Setting up the right governance structure and relationships.

The risks of going global.

Financial, legal, and tax risk.

Sarbanes-Oxley and European International Accounting Standards (IAS).

CFO insights.

10. Continuous Improvement: Keeping the Deal Working.

Building on success over time.

Getting things right from the start.

Making the commercials match the intent.

Outsourcing is about relationships.

Keep focusing on service management.

Integration and service management.

Pushing for continuous improvement.

Refreshment through contract renewal.

Keeping score.

CFO insights.

11. Finance BPO – the Future.

Innovation insights.

Accenture finance solutions: Worldwide interconnectivity.

The impact of next-generation technologies.

Finance and performance mastery in the future.

CFO insights.

Biographies.

Index.