1

Positioning the accounting and financial functions within the company

• Defining the main tasks and determining the major objectives of the financial departments.
• Analyzing the needs of internal customers.

2

Assessing the performance of the financial departments

• Ensuring consistency, quality and compliance in the financial reporting.
• Managing the various regulatory, accounting and fiscal requirements.
• Analyzing the cross-departmental processes: management and review processes.
• Assessing the quality of the departments: reactivity, verifiability, productivity.

3

Arranging the implementation of the strategy for developing the organization

• Establishing a unified and simplified management benchmark based on an ERP.
• Adapting the tool to changes in the company in accordance with strategic, functional and financial requirements.
• Standardizing reporting: reducing the closure and financial reporting timescales.
• Ensuring that the accounting and finance frameworks comply with the regulations in force.
• Enhancing performance: develop EDI, scanning of invoices, electronic data management.
• Implementing new forms of organization: shared service center, outsourcing, etc.

4

Optimizing the accounting and reporting processes

• Constructing scorecards: defining performance indicators.
• Establishing a process for the observation and analysis of internal and external performance.
• Communicating with different contacts: knowing how to motivate.
• Promoting the added value of the accounting and financial departments.