Organization Analysis and Design

Finance masters do much more than simply process financial transactions faster and more cheaply, or take their shared services operations to a lower cost location. Instead, the high performers have made finance operations more strategic by internalizing the notion of process elimination: removing waste from end-to-end transaction processes, which increases cycle times and improves service to both internal and external customers.

The next-generation finance organization must play an active role in driving value into the whole organization by creating end-to-end process connectivity. It also needs to create the capacity within the organization to provide the information driven analytics and insights to achieve a competitive advantage in the market, helping their organization to become a high performance business or government.

Related Client Success:
US Navy-Commander, Naval Installations Command: Financial Management Shared Services

Related Research and Insights:
Achieving High Performance through Shared Services: Lessons from the Masters

Our global, cross-industry expertise helps your organization master business insight, efficient operations and asset management strategies to outperform the competition and help you to become a high-performance business or government.

We deliver innovative ways to transform your organization's back-office finance function to improve your business performance. Our depth and breadth are unparalleled, including extensive experience with large, global clients as they enhance their back-office operations. In working with clients, we:

• Establish strong relationships to deliver long-term sustainable value.
  
  
• Act as a business partner. Our clients' business outcome is our single most important objective and measures the quality of our service.
  
  
• Use a team approach that empowers our clients to maximize their contributions to the project.
  
  
• Complement our clients' expertise and services.
  
  
• Leverage our experiences to bring you leading practices and innovative solutions.

Organization Analysis and Design involves the key business activities around: Shared Services and Sales, General & Administrative Optimization:

Shared Services
Accenture research shows that high-performance businesses and governments use innovative back-office sourcing solutions like shared services. High-performance organizations are much more likely to use the capabilities within their shared services functions as strategic enablers to expand market penetration or to quickly absorb new acquisitions. We have developed a leading full life-cycle methodology to assist you with:

• Designing and building a top-notch shared services operation.
• Achieving a successful implementation.
• Understanding the sourcing options (in-house vs. external) available to you.

Sales, General & Administrative Optimization
Accenture can help your organization to achieve greater efficiencies in general and administrative costs while delivering greater business value. Accenture can work with your organization to deliver greater accountability for S&GA cost and performance by:

• Defining accountabilities for administrative service costs and quality.
• Clarifying roles to avoid conflicts and gaps.
• Removing over-prescribed requirements and ad hoc interventions that drive downstream costs.