TCS 2021 Global Financial Leadership Study

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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

FP&A functions

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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We deliver excellence and create value for customers and communities.

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Global Financial

Essential takeaways

FP&A functions

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