Finance and Accounting BPO: Services Overview

CFOs across all industries share a common goal: to create a world-class finance organization. Today, that means more than an efficient and effective finance organization. To achieve high performance in a challenging global marketplace, companies are looking to their finance function for insights that will drive business improvement.

Accenture Finance and Accounting Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services teams with clients to deliver business outcomes through analytics, deep industry insight and innovation, in order to drive high performance through next-generation BPO. Our global scale, in-depth understanding of how to leverage technology and commitment to drive operational excellence are the foundation of an outsourcing relationship that transforms and energizes.

Contact us to find out how Accenture can help your company improve its performance through next-generation BPO.

Accenture is a market leader in providing Finance and Accounting BPO services to large and mid-sized corporations and governments. We provide services that deliver business control, value creation and cost improvement all along the finance value chain, from transaction processing to compliance and business analytics.

Accenture now has an established portfolio of more than 80 finance outsourcing contracts for approximately70 clients in 39 different languages across all industries. These clients are served by more than 10,000 skilled professionals in our Global Delivery Network.

Accenture takes finance and accounting BPO to the next level with its unmatched scale and experience:

• Industry experience. Our work with the majority of the Fortune 500 companies gives us the breadth to provide finance and accounting BPO services that deliver real business benefits.
  
  
• Analytics/insight/innovation. We leverage our leadership in analytics to identify opportunities to add value to our clients’ businesses.
  
  
• Technology. Accenture has made major investments in technologies such as software as a service, cloud computing, and mobility solutions that give our clients greater delivery flexibility and options for our clients.
  
  
• Delivery. Underpinning all of our services is the Accenture Global Delivery Network, one of the largest and most diversified groups of technology, business process and outsourcing professionals in the world.
  
  

Our capabilities span a full suite of Finance and Accounting BPO services across the entire finance value chain.

Procure to pay

• Transaction processing, including accounts payable and travel and expense processing.
  
  
• Financial integrity, including vendor statement reconciliations, interface management and payment accuracy controls.
  
  
• Help desk, vendor self-help portals.

Order to cash

• Collections and accounts receivable, including managing and processing collections, maintaining ledger and applying cash.
  
  
• Order management and billing, including managing contracts and sales orders, and customer requests and inquiries.
  
  
• Order-to-cash analytics, including authorizing and managing credit and revenue assurance activities.

Record to report

• Asset and transactional processing, including fixed assets, intercompany accounting and cash management and banking.
  
  
• Period close and data integrity, including master data maintenance, account reconciliation and analysis.
  
  
• Financial and government reporting, financial, tax, management and regulatory reporting.

Retained finance services include:

• Finance strategy and organization design, finance skills and competency and finance change management.