Financial close automation can provide insight into how to navigate the current economic environment, while also providing for sustainable transformation within your SSC or GBS. As teams consider the virtual experience of financial closing, many are finding out that their technology investments to support the process are lacking and yet are critical for success. Looking ahead, moving away from the tedious, manual tasks of the financial close process (whether insourced or outsourced) to focus the majority of time and effort on analyzing data will help drive the strategic direction of the business.

• Top-of-mind shift in challenges for F&A leaders as we move past the COVID-19 crisis

• The reduced risk in virtual close as technology takes over judgmental work

• How technology can strengthen the compliance framework of the retained and outsourced organizational teams