Asia Pacific - TCS 2021 Global Financial Leadership Study
Why finance must strengthen planning and analysis to support strategic leadership
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- Asia Pacific Finance Leaders: Preparing for the Next Era in FP&A
- Our study findings show finance leaders in the AP region are anticipating their FP&A teams will play a key role in driving recovery and supporting sustainable growth in the post-pandemic era. Are they ready for the challenge?
- In this article, you’ll uncover unique insights about how large enterprise finance leaders in Japan, Australia and India compare in addition to individual country analysis about their current FP&A strengths and weaknesses and their priorities for investment and improvement.
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TCS surveyed 750 global financial leaders across the 9 countries.
Specifically, we asked about their:
- Current FP&A strengths and weaknesses
- Priorities for investment and improvement.
Essential takeaways
Some FP&A teams in Europe and the UK are in a stronger position than others, but many organizations have clear capability shortfalls that are holding them back.
- 52% say they are unable to reallocate resources as the business’s demands change without significant errors.
- 60% of FP&A teams in AP say they are regularly fail to develop aligned and robust budgets
- 65% worry about their ability to scenario-plan
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AP finance teams are heeding the call and prioritizing investments to modernize FP&A functions
- 64% of AP finance teams overall anticipate additional investment in AI and machine learning in the next year
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- Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams have a key role in post pandemic recovery. But are they ready for the challenge?
- FP&A teams are successfully forging ahead in the post-pandemic world. But there’s still work to do.
- Trendsetters have higher FP&A maturity levels and rely more on data and analytics, and less on intuition, when planning and forecasting.
- Finance executives revealed what they consider their biggest gaps in FP&A capabilities.
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