Shared Services Weekly: Shared Services Intelligence

Hi and welcome to our Shared Services Weekly Newsletter!

It should come as no surprise to you that SSON R&A reports that 44% of shared service centers provide data analytics/business intelligence services. The need to demonstrate value, and align business services with business productivity, all but solidifies the rightful place of data in the SSC.?

This week I want to share the top reports, webinars and events taking a deep dive into data in shared services.??

New White Paper

Despite investment in analytics and intel, the data integrity and efficiency gains fall away when teams have to manually aggregate and update the data for statutory reporting.

Read on to learn how to assess current capabilities and take steps to achieve data integrity and efficiency in the statutory reporting cycle.?

Finance Transformation Event Next Week

Next week, we’re hosting the Finance Transformation Summit from August 2-3. Join myself, as well as CFOs, Executive Directors from GBS and Audit as we discuss some of the top concerns of Finance today; from FP&A, to reporting, audit, the makings of the modern CFO.?

IA World Series: September 2022?

SSON R&A reports that automation is a top skill prioritized by 58% of the shared services community. Join myself and IA leaders from Morgan Stanley, Affordable Care, Spectrum, Suncorp Group, and Schneider Electric at IA World Series this September 27-29 to discuss E2E transformation, Data-Driven Impact and Human Centered Automation.??

Upcoming Webinars

Join this webinar July 28th to learn how The Hershey Company leverages self-driving work to build efficient, agile, and scalable finance processes through technology.?

Process discovery is one of the hottest IA topics out there right now. Did you know it can also be used to glean key insights into the Future of Work? Register for our webinar this August 17 to understand how productivity insights are key to unlocking the workforce of the future.??

AP Invoice Automation - Write Up

Lastly, if you weren’t able to join the AP Invoice Automation Summit, you can read this great write up from Evan Beebe how describes how IDP can get the most value from AP data.?

Podcast Of The Week

In this week’s SSONext podcast episode, I take a deep dive into the unique nature of the predicted recession and its impact on both talent and accounts payable.

Our guest is Emily Nash-Walker, Director of Partner Enablement at Tradeshift. Emily is an expert in enterprise digital transformation and shared services with experience gained at various blue chip organizations where she enables partners to automate, digitize, and grow.

Emily and I dive into:

? How the recession will be shaping businesses decisions in the next 12 months

? The importance of the way that financial teams respond and the impacts to anticipate

? Mistakes that (accounts payable) AP teams could be making right now and what they could be doing better to prepare for the future

? What metrics to use as a North star as businesses pursue transformation projects in a recession

This episode is brought to you by Tradeshift. They help businesses connect with their suppliers digitally, remove paper and manual processes across procurement and payment, and help businesses buy what they need faster; all while managing risk.

For the full details on that and a lot more, listen to the episode here.

Til next time!

Jordan Mullins, Head of Editorial, SSON