At no other point in recent history has there been a massive, almost universal change in the way of work for businesses around the world. Digital transformation initiatives which have been in the works, or at some stage of planning, almost overnight saw leadership scrambling to get projects underway at an accelerated pace.
Slowed growth in 2020 saw the finance team thrust to prominence as business and operation leaders look to finance to identify opportunities – both internal and external – to pursue, which projects to terminate or accelerate, and how to improve the financial standing of the company.
The finance function, steeped in manual paper-intensive processed, is now mandated to spearhead enterprise-wide modernisation starting with itself.
In this e-brief, co-produced by FutureCFO and AWS, we look specifically at how the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and his or her cohorts are adopting to the new ways of working at both operational and strategic levels, including how to technology and process innovations can be leveraged to enhance productivity.
Click on this e-brief to read about the challenges, opportunities and learnings of CFOs in Asia as they respond to the challenge of the new normal.
