Maximizing Financial Excellence: Oracle's Blueprint for Streamlined Finance Operations

The Oracle Playbook for Financial Excellence outlines how our finance team operates with a more critical role than ever before, supporting us in preparing for unforeseen events, identifying efficiencies, determining optimal growth investments, and much more. Over the last two decades, they have been instrumental in driving our revenue growth, cost optimization, and navigating business forward.

In this playbook, we share our experiences, detling strategies that helped our finance team achieve remarkable outcomes like streamlining financial reporting, accelerating planning cycles, improving cash management, and more. Our goal is to provide insights on how your finance team can realize similar successes through focusing on people, processes, systems, automation, and leveraging Oracle Cloud Applications and Infrastructure.

Access the e-book: Becoming a Predictive Powerhouse

Our finance team has mastered the art of achieving more with less, significantly impacting our business growth. Even as we expanded our product portfolio, developed an industry-leading technology stack, opened dozens of data centers – surpassing any other cloud provider in this regard - and acquired numerous strategic companies, they have consistently provided critical data and insights that enabled us to enhance efficiency, improve customer experience, and achieve an industry-leading operating margin.

Some specific achievements include:

• Reducing the time required to close our books from 10 days or more down to just a few workdays.

• Achieving a 60 reduction in manual accounting tasks and streamlining processes by overhauling them through automation.

• Accelerating financial planning cycles by up to 30, significantly speeding up decision-making.

• Saving thousands of hours annually on forecasting and budgeting activities alone.

• Automating purchase orders, which has led to 70 of all orders being processed without manual intervention.

• Achieving full automation for customer order bookings in a highly scalable manner.

• Touchless transactions from start to finish for more than 35 of procure-to-pay processes.

With Oracle Cloud Applications and Infrastructure, our finance team shifted their focus from analyzing past data to steering the business forward. We now leverage Oracle's advanced -to- automation capabilities to drive strategic decision-making across the organization effectively.

Learn Proven Strategies: Achieving More with Less

To help you achieve similar outcomes for your organization’s financial success, we've compiled a range of strategies that have proven effective in our journey:

• Accelerating Financial Reporting: Automate repetitive tasks, streamline processes, and integrate syste speed up report generation.

• Automating Financial Planning: Implement tools for forecasting, budgeting, and scenario analysis that can be quickly updated with the latest data inputs.

• Efficient Cash Management: Utilize real-time analytics and predictiveto optimize cash flow, improve liquidity, and minimize risks.

• Streamlining Employee Expense Reporting: Simplify processes by automating clm submission and review while ensuring compliance with policies.

Maximizing Business Value:

We are dedicated partners in helping our customers maximize the value of their investments and achieve their business goals. Learn more about Oracle's Customer Success Services to see how we can help your organization.

Explore Success Stories: Inspiration from Peers

Gn insight into how similar organizations have utilized Oracle Cloud Applications and Infrastructure to drive success, overcome challenges, and achieve notable outcomes in various industries.

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