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Unlocking potential
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Finance effectiveness benchmark study 2013
October 2013
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Benchmark coverage
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Spanning
98 countries
More than
200 blue-chip organisations
Over
2,750 datasets
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Assessing finance– a fact-based approach
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Business Insight
Compliance & Control
Efficiency
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The cost of finance is stabilising, ending the previously increasing trend – but there is still a substantial gap between ‘average’ and top quartile performers
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Cost of finance, as a percentage of revenue, at typical firms
0.9% Cost of finance at top quartile firms
0.6%
0.82%
0.93%
1.02%
0.93%
0.54% 0.56% 0.61%
0.56%
0.0%
0.2%
0.4%
0.6%
0.8%
1.0%
1.2%
2009 2010 2011-12 2012-13
Finance cost as a percentage of revenue
Median Top quartile
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A similar variation occurs in different peer groups
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1.48%
0.96%
0.50%
0.86%
0.63%
0.26%
0.00%
0.25%
0.50%
0.75%
1.00%
1.25%
1.50%
1.75%
High Medium Low
Median Top quartile
Finance cost as a percentage of revenue
Typical industries:
Financial services
Manufacturing Professional services Technology Energy/oil/minerals
Tourism/Travel Retail/consumer
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Moving from transactions to business insight
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67%
70%
61%
60%
16%
14%
16%
15%
18%
16%
23%
25%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
2009
2010
2011-12
2012-13
Percentage of finance effort
Efficiency Control Insight
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Up to the task: Business insight Top performers look very different to typical organisations
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Over 50% more people
in ‘business partnering
roles’
Over 20% higher pay
for insight roles
30% more time on
business analysis
Budget 10% faster and
complete forecasts in less
than half the time and
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Data gathering continues to require substantial time
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64% 52%
60% 50%
64% 53%
36% 48%
40% 50%
36% 47%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Medium Top quartile Medium Top quartile Medium Top quartile
Percent of time spent on data gathering versus analysis
Data gathering Analysis
2010 2011-12 2012-13
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Efforts to reduce the budgeting and forecasting cycles are starting to show some progress
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120 120
103
20 19 17
94 90 90
7 7 7
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
2010 2011-12 2012-13 2010 2011-12 2012-13
Budgeting and forecasting cycle (days)
Median Top quartile
80% Report that the
accuracy of forecasts is
critical to the running of
the business
Only 45% believe the
forecast outputs are
reliable
but
Source: PwC, Unlocking Potential: Finance Benchmark study 2013
Budget Forecast
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There is a substantial gap between aspiration and performance
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Management Reporting: The compilation and creation of management reports as required enabling managers to make decisions.
Finance has the ‘right capabilities’ in place (i.e. critical thinking, technical skills, managerial skills, organisational discipline, etc.).
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Importance Rank
Performance Rank
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Importance Rank
Performance Rank
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The percentage of finance staff devoted to business partnering remains consistent
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11%
13% 13%
11%
19% 19% 19% 18%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
2009 2010 2011-12 2012-13
Median Top quartile
Percentage of finance FTEs in business partnering
But there are many examples of real improvement
in the quality and impact of business partnering….
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Technology
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50% Have data
warehousing in place
Only 17% of companies
have a self-service reporting
application
Only 11% have applied
a standard data taxonomy
Almost 50% have reporting
processes that rely on manual
spreadsheet manipulation
but
“In the coming years, some form of SaaS or cloud technology will play an important part in the finance organisation of many companies”
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Some forward-looking companies are pushing hard to develop their finance functions
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Example: Finance as the catalyst for cultural change, working across the silos in the total supply chain, and using technology to drive integrated business planning
Example: Multi-function shared services, identifying
the right mix of language and professional skills and
employee rotation to work across multiple geographies
Example: Driving to get data gathering time to zero
through the use of automation and ERP standards. Goal
is to have finance team devote 100% of time to
analysis, business partnering, and insight generation
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The 2013 Finance Benchmark Report focuses on three main themes
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Further evolution of the finance function – Insight generation, finance-business partnerships, and the CFO as Chief Performance Officer
Talent – Adapting finance recruitment, training and development practices to address evolving needs
Technology and automation – Reducing budgeting and reporting cycles, smarter planning, and the adoption of technologies to support insight-generation
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