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How CPM Modernizes Finance for Banking and Financial Services

/in /by BPM Partners

Sponsored by OneStream Software

  • To continue success and growth, FSI entities need maximum efficiency and accuracy from their finance team. Yet many FSI entities are hindered by fragmented financial data, disconnected systems, and manual processes. This white paper examines how modern CPM solutions can address these challenges for finance teams in banks.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: April 2025
  • Pages: 17
  • Request your copy today by completing the White Papers Request form.

Executive Summary:

When it comes to particular CPM capabilities, banks and other FSI entities need integrated business planning for their capital adequacy analysis, portfolio planning that integrates with the treasury area, and integrated sensitivity analysis for stress testing of their loan portfolios. Modern CPM solutions can help unify data, processes, technology, and people, making it easer to:

  • Manage the balance sheet to maximize net interest income, balancing profitability with interest rate, capital, and liquidity risks
  • Ensure compliance with complex regulatory requirements
  • Optimize the institution’s capital position
  • Manage risk efficiently while preserving capital flexibility
  • Integrate sensitivity and what-if analysis for stress-testing of loan portfolios
  • Analyze capital adequacy with consistent precision and accuracy
  • Maintain and update manual compensating controls
  • Monitor, report on and optimize their liquidity risk position

FP&A Tools to Navigate Uncertainty

/in /by BPM Partners

Sponsored by Unit4

  • A review of the latest FP&A trends and product capabilities helping companies navigate through uncertainty.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: September 2024
  • Pages: 19
  • Request your copy today by completing the White Papers Request form.
  • View related webcast here.

Executive Summary:

Uncertainty ahead, for Finance, is all but certain. Accelerated change—driven by technology advances, geopolitical conflict, electoral and regulatory shifts—is a constant. Finance leaders know they must be equipped with new capabilities to navigate through turbulent periods. There are solutions available today that offer many of the required capabilities. They can prepare organizations to manage performance and optimize results in the face of business conditions with numerous unknowns and growing volatility. Many companies already take advantage of these solutions. It’s up to you to determine the timeline for your company to join them. Topics covered include:

  • AI (data quality with anomaly detection, automation, predictive forecasting, interactive analysis with Gen AI)
  • Extended Planning and Analysis
  • Scenario Planning
  • Continuous Forecasting
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Profitability Optimization
  • Finance Transformation

The Road to FP&A Excellence

/in /by BPM Partners

Sponsored by Unit4

  • A guide to modernizing your financial planning and analysis: knowing when and where to begin, how to establish ROI, and what milestones to aim for.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: December 2022
  • Pages: 16
  • Request your copy today by completing the White Papers Request form.
  • View related webcast here.

Executive Summary:

It may be time to launch your Finance department’s journey to efficient, high-performing financial planning and analysis (FP&A). Asking yourself a few pointed questions about how finance processes are working at your company can probably reveal the answer quickly. The actual modernization of FP&A can be handled as an incremental evolution, a phase-by-phase extension of existing capabilities, or a full-fledged transformation of these functions. This whitepaper looks at the overall journey to more effective, modern FP&A, and should help Finance groups prepare for a successful transition.

A Strong ROI Case for Finance Transformation

/in /by BPM Partners

Sponsored by FYIsoft

  • Finance transformation projects can and should have a high ROI, as we’ll demonstrate through several cost savings/benefit scenarios in this whitepaper.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: February 2022
  • Pages: 15
  • Request your copy today by completing the White Papers Request form.

Executive Summary:

Finance leaders struggle to balance increasing demands for finance function support with decreasing finance function budgets. As a result, 65% of finance teams are currently undergoing or planning a finance transformation effort. Even in the midmarket, more than 60% of companies have engaged in related projects. These initiatives are a combination of software modernization and process reengineering that aims to make planning and analysis more dynamic, frequent, forward-looking, collaborative, participatory, and inclusive of operations. In addition, manual processes are automated and streamlined which reduces errors, speeds up financial cycles, and leaves more time and resources available for analysis.

Accelerating Finance Transformation

/in /by BPM Partners

Sponsored by Acterys

  • By staging the project and selecting rapid-deployment software, the benefits of finance transformation can be realized more rapidly.
  • Author: BPM Partners
  • Date: May 2021
  • Pages: 15
  • Now available for: Instant Download

Executive Summary:

There are ways to accelerate the benefits of finance transformation: take it in stages, with rapid reforecasting and analysis as a first priority. Choose software that has proven it can be deployed and implemented rapidly, and specifically a unified platform where integration with source systems is streamlined. Look for features that will entice Operations to adopt and use the new software readily and without a learning curve.