As a Gartner client, your priorities become our priorities. Our customized service equips you with the strategic advice, insights and practical tools required to cut through common finance and technology challenges and execute the initiatives that are critical to your success.
Your service is designed to help you deliver the underlying projects and initiatives
that are crucial for accomplishing your biggest finance challenges.
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You face a diverse set of complex challenges in driving future business growth. Positioning finance to take advantage of new automation and analytics technologies, reorganizing the function to fully exploit data and analytics capabilities, and delivering agile approaches to support more effective decision making within digital business models are all high on the agenda.
“When I start thinking about what we really want to do with the function strategically, I go to Gartner. What I find every time is a really concise, well-thought-out structure for whatever I’m trying to do.”
Division VP Investor Relations
Multinational technology firm
“Using Gartner resources, we cut the time needed to restructure the finance organization in half, and we achieved a high-quality outcome.”
Ivan Duvnjak
CFO
Bariatrix Nutrition Inc
Radically changing the ecosystem of business performance management activities at your organization should be a key priority. This challenge is underpinned by the need to redefine KPIs and leading indicators, deliver new analytics and data capabilities, and restructuring your financial data to generate insights that can improve enterprise decisions.
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"We leveraged the Gartner Implication Portfolio Management technique and it's been an eye-opening exercise. We now have a more holistic view of what these platforms deliver to the organization. Before, we didn’t know the costs to deliver each of our platforms for different services; this technique has allowed us to make real decisions around these platforms."
Technology and Telecoms firm
"We wanted to understand how our budget compares to others, and what metrics and drivers deliver an appropriate budget. Gartner provided research that immediately answered our question. The value of this analysis was worth approximately $10K, and the efficiency allowed us to focus on other priorities."
Government Agency
Gartner's best practices and decision support helped ARC to reduce their accounting closing process to 5 days, in addition to incorporating a rolling forecast.
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Thomas Casalino
Vice President & CFO
Airlines Reporting Corporation
Improving management reporting is a key focus area. Increasing the efficiency of accounting processes with new robotics and AI technologies, improving governance with smarter, agile, and automated controls, and defining how to provide insights that can help the business to detect performance issues earlier represent a critical set of responsibilities.
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support you on below.
"We talked to Gartner about our budget challenges, functional re-organzation and shared services initiative. We received around $100K worth of value from Gartner research and calls with subject matter experts on this topic. Quite frankly, we would have been flying blind without Gartner."
Government agency
"The IT financial management workshop enabled us to come out with an extremely actionable project plan for enterprise budgeting. This saved us almost a month’s worth of work and accelerated the process, validating that we are heading in the right direction."
Pharmaceutical company
"I cited Gartner when talking to the controller and CFO to gain their support. It was helpful to use your name to build credibility to make the argument for why we should set materiality thresholds."
External Reporting Lead
Agricultural biotechnology firm
Balancing your regional objectives with business-level priorities presents a unique challenges for finance directors, particularly in a matrixed environment and with potentially limited autonomy. Utilizing clever tactics to deliver quality insights to your market leaders, working collaboratively with the corporate center, and improving finance’s influence on operational decision making are key priorities for your business.
"The FP&A support is really what drives value through reporting, consistency, making sure that we run after the same standards across the company and driving value from the data."
Alban de Vatteville
FP&A Leader
Nielsen
"We were given insights around competency frameworks that other organizations have developed. We’ve now applied it to our own organization in terms of competencies we want to build in the future, moving away from the technical competencies of the past and toward guidance."
Richard Morley
Head of Finance
NFU Mutual
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Shared services leaders face a host of challenges in equipping their businesses to drive innovation, boost productivity and enable efficiencies. Leveraging technology for automation, developing talent that can support the evolution of shared services activities, and introducing new techniques for measuring and enhancing performance are all pressing issues.
"Gartner research helped us shape our thinking around robotics and testing operational models. It saved us a considerable amount of research time and confirmed what we were working on. Very helpful."
Banking firm
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"Gartner was a terrific way to jump right in, really understand the core issues that companies like ours were facing, and strategies on how to enable process improvement, particularly as it’s related to things such as offshoring, outsourcing, automation, finance IT and transformation projects."
Vice President, Global Strategic Shared Services
Database marketing firm
As a Gartner client, you’ll harness strategic advice and guidance that is tailored to your challenges from a team of more than 2,000 experts and advisors with deep functional and technology expertise, in addition to dedicated support from your personal account manager or client partner. Learn more about the extensive expertise of our Analysts and Advisors, and discover how they can help you to successfully tackle finance and technology-related challenges.
Experts and researchers apply their deep knowledge across technologies, vendors, trends and innovations to help you make finance technology decisions with confidence.
In addition to providing you with guidance on your key technology purchases and implementation strategies, our experts can also help you review vendor contracts to save time, money and reduce risk.
Executive Advisors™ have an extensive range of functional expertise, which helps finance leaders across the globe overcome their critical challenges on a daily basis.
Our advisors work with you to understand your priorities, serve as objective experts for your key decisions, and support your action-planning efforts for recommended solutions.
Your account management team is dedicated to ensuring that your service is fully tailored toward delivering your mission-critical priorities.
They help you utilize the resources, benchmarks and diagnostics, or expert guidance that you need to execute on key projects, and engage with you regularly to ensure you that your implementations are on track.
In times of uncertainty and change, relying on peer perspectives and expert insights to inform your decision making is invaluable. Our finance leadership meetings and virtual events will help you to pressure-test ideas, identify innovative new solutions, and avoid risky or expensive pitfalls.
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Join our webinar "Translate Growth Into Profits: New Cost Optimization Approaches" on March 16, 2020.
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