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April 01, 2021

Contributor: Jackie Wiles





COVID-19 and its effects forced short-term changes on many finance functions,
including changes to organization design — structures, networks and workflows,
and role design. Finance leaders will need to account for these new realities in
their long-term plans for the shape of the finance function.

Download now: Redesign Your Finance Function


FINANCE FUNCTION STRUCTURES WILL BE PERMANENTLY FLATTER

Finance function organizational structures have typically been hierarchical.
However, many finance positions were eliminated in 2020, essentially flattening
most finance organizations — and requiring staff to operate more autonomously
and adapt quickly to change.

Finance managers will now manage more employees, making it critical for them to
be clear about the finance activities they do or don’t need to perform, while
allowing employees to work more independently. 

To respond effectively to these shifts, finance leaders can:

 * Determine the potential for autonomy by capturing feedback from the hardest
   hit areas of the finance function on how employees managed more autonomy and
   where better support is needed. 
 * Identify the tasks most suited to automation by asking staff, for example,
   which tasks have the lowest rate of rework or inaccuracies, aren’t
   critical-path activities or have limited impact.
 * Establish a “default go” culture in which employees feel empowered to make
   routine decisions independently within certain thresholds beyond which
   escalation is required.


FINANCE FUNCTION NETWORKS WILL FADE 

With a hybrid workforce model, internal networks on which finance staff rely
could dissolve. Finance function leaders and managers must create opportunities
to maintain employee engagement as finance staff remain remote — whether
temporarily or permanently. To do that:

 * Use digital collaboration tools (and model their use) to connect employees
   with peers, including those working remotely, on-site and in hybrid
   arrangements.
 * Develop a “Connector manager” culture. Managers who build connections within
   and beyond the finance function and refer employees to others who can provide
   specific answers and development support are the most effective. 
 * Hold finance function employees accountable to increase the motivation and
   engagement of staff. Also establish the expectation that finance employees
   should lean on peers for support and collaboration.


ADAPT FINANCE FUNCTION WORKFLOWS 

Finance function leaders have long focused on standardizing workflows and roles
to increase efficiency, but standardized models proved brittle during the
volatility of COVID-19. To strike a balance between standardization and
flexibility that can organizational resilience:

 * Determine probable disruption levels by tracking more qualitatively leading
   indicators, such as changing customer demands, shifting regulations, workflow
   vulnerability and the level of side-of-desk work. Also identify “steadier
   state” business units that are less likely to face disruption.
 * Prioritize standardization, focusing first on activities with lower levels of
   disruption risk. Reduce standardization for workflows with higher disruption
   risks and instead provide more decision-making tools and principle-based
   (rather than rule-based) recommendations on how to react in more ambiguous
   situations.


YOU STILL NEED A ‘BEST’ APPROACH FOR THE FINANCE FUNCTION

Despite these shifts in organizational design, finance leaders shouldn’t make
decisions on how to evolve the finance function in a vacuum. Gartner research
shows that it’s still important, for example, to make decisions about the level
of centralization in finance activities.

The ongoing standardization and automation of processes and transactions lends
itself to centralization, but a range of options across the centralization
spectrum serve different objectives. Gartner research found that on average,
finance leaders place two-thirds of their staff at the corporate center and 10%
to 15% in shared locations, though finance activities are more likely to be
centralized as companies grow in size, complexity, and finance functional
maturity.





COMPLEXITY IS KEY TO FINANCE-FUNCTION MIDDLE OFFICE DESIGN

As companies respond to changing business conditions, finance leaders must
consider which service delivery model offers the greatest value. Some, for
example, might choose to migrate to shared services or a center of excellence
(CoE); others might sharply divide responsibilities between corporate and
embedded finance teams. 

Ultimately, the “best” model for a given organization is one that balances
finance’s competing governance and guidance responsibilities given the available
human and financial resources. 

Consider the finance middle-office, which owns the bulk of core accounting work,
Gartner research found that two activity attributes — impact and complexity —
are key to identifying which location best balances risk and efficiency.



This framework helps finance leaders establish the base paradigm for activity
location – middle office activities of low complexity should be moved into
shared locations unless there is a well documented reason for exception; even
those activities with medium complexity but broad impact should be considered
for a shared location; activities with high complexity should be owned either by
the corporate center, or addressed jointly by the center and regional or BU
teams.   

“While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, this model provides a framework
for considering where specific activities should fit within the finance
department,” says Risberg.


NEW MODELS CAN IMPROVE FINANCE FUNCTION’S FRONT OFFICE IMPACT

For front-office activities, Gartner finds organizations implementing a variety
of new models to improve the quality and impact of finance analytics. One global
telecommunications company adopted a “hub-and-spoke” model in which a
centralized CoE (hub) owns some of its more strategic analytics and is linked to
“spokes” embedded in the business.

In this model, the hub executes multivariate tests recommended by the spokes to
produce constructive insights such as profitable-growth targets, customer and
produce profitability models, and strategic pricing information.



This model exemplifies how CFOs can create structures that meet their own
company’s needs. In this case, the integrity of the pure data analysts is
protected in the hub, while the needs of the business are leveraged through the
spokes.


NEXT STEPS

After setting the degree of centralization, CFOs can go on to redesign other key
aspects of the finance functional organization:

 * Assess current finance structure. Understand the organization’s spend,
   staffing, structure, technology, productivity and performance now and
   anticipate future business needs.
 * Determine an outsourcing strategy. Select activities to outsource and the
   location for outsourcing.
 * Structure finance subfunctions. Make sure the structure is based on
   functional priorities, and clearly define each subfunction’s scope of
   activities to avoid duplication.
 * Establish reporting relationships. Choose the right reporting structure for
   embedded finance teams and optimize the span of controls. Use role
   definitions, incentives and performance measures — instead of just redrawing
   reporting lines — to drive the desired behavior.





This article has been updated from the 2018 original, which was refreshed July
18, 2019, to reflect new events, conditions and research.


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