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New and emerging technology, such as robotic process automation, cognitive computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) will profoundly impact and transform the workforce of the future across the financial sector.
Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is providing digital speed to market and cost take outs for financial institutions, but the successful financial institutions of tomorrow will be those who embrace the next wave of robotics technology and future technology to drive business outcome.
What is Robotic Process Automation?
As the push to go increasingly digital and do more with available resources intensifies, the need for companies to empower their workers through technology increases. RPA is at the forefront of human-computer technology and provides players in the financial services industry with a virtual workforce that is ruled based and is set up to connect with your company’s systems in the same way as your existing users. With robotics, you automate and build an automation platform for you front office, back office and support functions.
Banks, insurers, pension funds and other financial services institutions operate in a highly regulated industry and are faced with high demands for auditability, security, data quality and operational resilience. Robotic process automation allow modern banks to meet these demands and achieve significant operational efficiency.
The benefits of robotics are:
Financial services institutions can automate a wide array of processes with robotics across industries in the financial sector.
BANKING
New account entry across systems – moving data and doing multiple entries
Account reconciliation – duplicating and moving data
Report generation across systems and generated
Eform extraction – taking data from forms and making systems entries
VAT reporting
Accrual support – making and updating entries
Mortgage approval – moving data place to place and making calculations
Refinancing entries – making entries and updating records
Notification of delinquent loans – emails and letters to clients
Processing of credit card orders – from web form to mainframe
Audit support and validation
Fixed asset amortization
FX accounting and write-offs
Cost accounting and Purchase Orders
Bad debt write-offs
Month end close heavy lifting
Journal entry accounting
Credit note accounting entry
Accrual booking
Pricing reviews – performing calculations and entries
Fraud detection – by tracking account activity
Account cleansing – purging known old data
CAPITAL MARKETS
Client onboarding - documentation requirements check
Compliance, legal, credit and identification checks
Operational set-up of account in trading, collateral and settlement systems
Transparent status of onboarding process
Consistent data mapping between source and downstream systems
KYC/AML authentication: collection and analysis of basic identity information (CIP); name matching against lists of known parties (such as PEP)
Fraud detection - determination of the customer's risk in terms of propensity to commit money laundering, terrorist finance, or identity theft
Reconciliation - user defined rules to generate alerts on chargeback, retrieval request and response
Automated scheduling of reconciliation activity
Multi-level reconciliation that supports international & domestic networks across multiple delivery channels
Entitlement engine - providing timely, accurate distributions of dividends and interest
Receive/track dividend, interest, and amortized principal payment information and collect the distribution of all dividend and interest allocations
Simplifies/Enforces the management of complex entitlement policies
INSURANCE
Product Administration - update systems and produce client details for sales of new products
Policy Document Data Transfer from legacy system to new Applications, Systems, 3rd Parties.
Products Sales Support - customer data gathering, adherence to compliance and rules of sale
Bulk Payments (Motor) - updates policies following claims made through specialist claims companies.
Bulk Recoveries (Motor) - updates policies of vehicle recovery amounts and fees supplied by third parties
Unallocated Cash Report - works a report and writes off any cash discrepancy under a certain value.
Deceased Notification - processing of insurance policies following notification of a death.
Insurance Comparison - downloads leads from Internet Comparison providers and loads entries to lead management system
Compliance Reporting Automation - automated preparation of reports for the RPA
Marketing Campaign Support - high speed response for back office automation to support new product launches, product incentives
Credit Card Rejections - works a report of rejected card payments and over a period sends letter to the customer before ultimately cancelling the insurance.
Redemptions Processing - cross checking to multiple systems for Compliance assurance
Payment transfer - paid directly to a client or reinvested/distributed to other products across multiple systems or third party applications
Right of Set-Off and Debt Recovery
Amend Standing Order, Direct Debit, Address details across multiple systems
Accounts Data Mismatches across disparate systems
To identify processes that are suitable for robotic process automation you can use this check list:
Combining Accenture’s comprehensive knowledge and experience from the financial service institutions with robotic process automation expertise, we help our financial services clients to identify areas relevant for robotic process automation and implement tailor made solutions with a quick turnaround.
A robot acts like a person - like a new employee, and with a modest set up of the robotics software on any computer with access to your systems, the robot can start working on the processed identified and mapped out for it, allowing you to get started with your robotics very quickly.
The high-level steps for getting started with robotics are:
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