{"id":1336,"date":"2019-04-02T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog2wrkdev.wpenginepowered.com\/financial-automation-teaser\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:41:04","slug":"financial-automation-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/financial-automation-teaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Impact of Financial Automation in High-Growth Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, there\u2019s a prevailing perception in business that an organization\u2019s financial team mostly handles back-office work and is not a strategic part of the business. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This perception couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At every company, the finance team is perhaps the most intimately familiar with the organization. All of the operational data a company generates flows through the finance team: payroll, headcount, sales, department spend, invoices, refunds, chargebacks, stocks, and so on. Finance is also responsible for safeguarding the organization. It\u2019s the finance team that pays the corporate taxes, handles all the registrations, ensures the company is legally compliant, and prevents corporate audits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/what-finance-automation-is-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How finance automation will affect the future of the workplace<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of the misconception that they\u2019re only a bunch of number-crunching accountants, however, the financial team has for far too long been an underserved part of the business when it comes to investing in the technology and processes to streamline and do its job more efficiently. In fact, according to an Institute of Management Accountants survey: <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two-thirds of respondents say they still rely heavily on spreadsheets to do end of month reconciliations. <\/li><li>More than two-thirds of financial professionals admit they face pressure from upper management to speed up the financial close process. <\/li><li>Only one-fifth say they were satisfied with their closing processes.<\/li><li>And only one-third of companies surveyed said they have automated some parts of the closing process. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of these issues are fixable through automation. A report from Gartner, for example, estimates that 70% of the accounting rework performed to fix errors before a financial close is necessarily manual but the remaining 30% of that work is avoidable using automation. Gartner also suggests that the real-world implications of this trend translate to \u201cabout 25,000 hours and $900,000 wasted on work that could be automated\u201d for an accounting team with the equivalent of 40 full-time employees at an average annual salary of $75,000. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet when it comes to automating the processes necessary to be a strategic partner for the business\u2014from quote-to-cash, financial reporting, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/accounts-payable-automation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accounts payable<\/a>, or managing risk and compliance\u2014finance is often left in the desert begging for a cup of water. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clearly, companies can and should do better for their financial teams and their processes. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By partnering with business systems professionals to enable the same sort of digital transformation that is occurring in other lines-of-business, finance teams can close monthly reconciliation processes more efficiently and be given more time for high-value work, can provide more accurate data in a timely or real-time manner, and ultimately see their role within the business as more than just being a bean counter.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our free ebook, we&#8217;ll show you the impact of financial automations on an organization. See top organizations who automated financials processes in order to: <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Design order-to-cash processes that work for high-volume eCommerce and help the organization realize revenue faster;<\/li><li>Manage procure-to-pay and always stay on budget;<\/li><li>Generate real-time reports with up-to-the-minute information from a wide range of sources;<\/li><li>Optimize the financial close with automated and truly continuous accounting;<\/li><li>And more!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Ready to see how financial automation can make your team more effective? <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.workato.com\/financial-automations\/?utm_source=blog\">Download the ebook now &gt;<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.workato.com\/financial-automations\/?utm_source=blog\" style=\"background-color:#10986f\">Get the Book<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, there\u2019s a prevailing perception in business that an organization\u2019s financial team mostly handles back-office work and is not a strategic part of the business. 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