Finance & Accounting

Explore the Finance & Accounting SSO landscape with interactive Visual Analytics Workbooks. Filter many facets to find the answers to your F&A SS&O questions.

End-to-End Process Integration and Optimization
Finance end-to-end (E2E) process integration and optimization is critical for organizations looking to maximize efficiency, minimize costs, and enhance overall financial performance.
Published March 2023
Benchmarking Against AR Performance, Challenges & Initiatives in 2022
Accounts receivable (AR) teams are in charge of receiving funds on behalf of a company and applying it to their current pending balances. SSON’s “AR Pulse Check 2022” polled shared services and finance professionals to determine some of the key objectives and challenges.
Published September 2022
Financial Close: Leveraging Automation to Drive Performance
SSON surveyed over 100 finance executives to understand their finance service delivery model and how they are managing their financial close process. The survey sheds light on the challenges faced, identifies critical gaps and showcases opportunities for improvement.
Published May 2022
The Global State of AP Automation Survey 2021
SSON surveyed the global industry to understand the current organizational model, automation approach and efficiency levels of accounts payable (AP) teams. The survey also uncovers the types of invoices processed, how invoice processing has been impacted by the pandemic and highlights the key priori
Published November 2021
Finance Shared Services of the Future: Promoting Digital Performance through IA, Data Analytics, and a New Talent Profile
SSON Analytics has analyzed more than 1,000 Finance Shared Services Centers (SSCs) across the United States. This report includes a heat-map visualizing where enterprises have chosen to base their Finance SSCs and also uncovers the latest IA implementation strategies, most popular finance tools...
Published February 2020
Future of Finance Middle East 2020: Data analytics and digitalisation paving the way for greater efficiency and accurate insights powering the business
As the business environment continues to evolve, the Finance function is presented with an immense opportunity to transform and position themselves a key contributor of value to the business. This report examines the two primary value drivers shaping the Finance function in the Middle East...
Published January 2020
Future of Finance Asia 2020: Next-level analytics and technology to guide strategy and optimise value-creation
More than 60 Finance leaders in Asia share their insights on the reinvention of the Finance function in this interactive report, which will offer insights on the evolution of the Finance functional scope, crucial drivers of value and the benefits of digitalisation in the Finance function.
Published November 2019
Future of Finance 2020: Architects of value-creation, leading strategy with transformative insights
This interactive report captures the latest developments in the Finance function, from data-readiness, Artificial Intelligence (AI), cross-functional collaboration and the evolving value proposition of Finance. Find out how Finance leaders are staying ahead of the curve in capturing higher value...
Published October 2019