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In response to these changes and challenges, CEOs, CMOs, and other business unit heads are turning to the CFO for strategic guidance. Beyond the traditional responsibilities of number-crunching and overseeing financial reporting across multiple accounting standards, today’s CFOs are being asked to become enterprise-wide strategists and proactive decision-makers, utilizing technology to look at the bigger picture. To meet these expanding requirements, CFOs and their teams require immediate access to the right data, in one place and in real-time.
Technology Limitations
Unfortunately, for most bank CFOs, existing finance architectures are often not equipped to meet current and future requirements. In many large banks, finance teams face clunky legacy systems, disparate data, finance operating model that cannot be scaled for digital banking, and complex technical landscapes that require constant manual intervention. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted gaps in the automation of business processes and underscored the need for solutions that enable CFOs to access real-time insights to support better and more efficient decision-making, manage risk, and address the complex needs of stakeholders. These requirements and the current environment are resulting in increased urgency around the need for digital finance transformations.
"AAH Allows Users to Consolidate and Optimize Processes for a Strategic Compliance Approach and Use Regulatory Data to Deliver Value beyond Compliance"
Progressively Transforming Finance
Aptitude Software, a global financial software specialist, delivers innovative financial solutions that help CFOs and finance teams run their businesses, forecast decisions, and comply with complex regulations. Aptitude enables a bank’s finance team to embark on a progressive finance transformation journey and shift from a focus on backward-looking reporting to high-value strategic guidance. Aptitude Software can help banks consolidate multiple disparate data sources, like risk, finance, and treasury systems, to create a standardized finance data model. This accurate financial data foundation acts as a single source of truth, allowing banks to analyze available data in real-time and utilize it to accurately forecast and make decisions for the future. “We help CFOs shift from a governance role to one that provides strategic forward-looking guidance, making them a trusted advisor to a business. In other words, they turn into a chief value officer,” says Adam Flowers, Aptitude’s Regional Director, APAC.
Aptitude uses a ‘cloud-first’ software development methodology, and all of its products can be deployed to the cloud or on-premise, providing clients with choice and flexibility. Aptitude’s flagship product, the Aptitude Accounting Hub, (AAH) is purpose-built to centralize and automate finance accounting and reporting while delivering a detailed financial data foundation for business insights and decision making. It allows the finance team to take a leading role in driving the strategic and economic performance of a business. “AAH provides the speed, scale, and adaptability required to serve the fast-moving banking sector and exploit the value of financial data to deliver value through business insight,” adds Flowers. “It simplifies the most complex of finance architectures, which is why it is fast becoming an essential for any finance transformation.”
Aptitude also has several solutions developed to meet accounting and regulatory compliance requirements, including IFRS 9, IFRS 15, IFRS 16, IFRS 17, and LDTI.
The Value of an Accounting Hub in Banking
Accounting hubs are increasingly recognized by finance and technology experts as an essential part of today’s finance architecture. What sets AAH apart is its built-in IP, which includes pre-packaged, industry-specific accounting and business events, along with a multi-GAAP, accounting rules engine, which provides a solid foundation for the transaction, contract, and reference data at the most granular level. AAH also acts as a single source of truth for regulatory and risk reporting, providing trade-level data that feeds into financial statements, regulatory reporting, and monitoring. AAH centralizes an organization’s accounting rules and integrates and aligns data from multiple upstream sources to drive a more streamlined, automated, and transparent reporting process. This allows banks to benefit from bringing all finance data together for activities such as scenario definition, forecasting, modeling, accounting, and reporting. “AAH allows users to consolidate and optimize processes for a strategic compliance approach and use regulatory data to deliver value beyond compliance,” mentions Adam. Finance teams can better understand revenue and income diversity by market, characteristic, and funding, and unlock the value of financial data to provide actionable insights to the business.
Client Success Stories
Unlike many other solution providers in the finance transformation space, Aptitude has a proven track record of successfully implementing finance-owned solutions that deliver results. In one instance, Aptitude helped a leading retail and commercial bank reduce their overall cost and complexity by progressively transforming their finance technology landscape. After acquiring multiple recognized brands over the years, the client was looking for a platform that could handle the complexity of multiple systems and data sources. They needed to consolidate data for reporting purposes and automate existing reporting processes and wanted a scalable platform that could start addressing existing divisional projects and grow into a company-wide strategic solution.
After being selected over a large technology incumbent, the Aptitude Accounting Hub solution was integrated into the client’s existing infrastructure, to support the bank’s dynamic development and deliver financial control and transparency. “With Aptitude, they gained a flexible and cost-effective platform to progressively transform finance,” adds Flowers. Furthermore, because the project resulted in a simplified and standardized finance function, with automated reporting and operations, the bank was able to easily migrate to a cloud general ledger, becoming the first in the UK to achieve this milestone.
Anticipating Tomorrow’s Needs
Aptitude takes pride in being the only financial management software company that brings together finance expertise, innovative software, and a laser-sharp focus to the office of the CFO. They have been selected by world-leading organizations that want game-changing control and foresight when there is uncertainty, fear, and opportunity. Client successes are what propel Aptitude forward.
For the road ahead, the company seeks to further strengthen its presence in the finance and banking market by utilizing the latest technology for componentization and containerized delivery. All future development will be done in conjunction with clients via advisory boards and in collaboration with leading financial and accounting firms to identify new opportunities. The heart of Aptitude’s product development, testing, and product design is its Innovation Center in Wroclaw, Poland, which is becoming a hub for the best tech talent in Europe. “In the near-term, we will also be continuing to invest in our UI to make our products even more intuitive for finance users and enhancing the embedding reporting to further reduce finance’s reliance on IT. We are also investing in the cloud operations side of the business over the next 24 months,” wraps up Flowers.
We help CFOs shift from a governance role to one that provides strategic forward-looking guidance, making them a trusted advisor to a business. In other words, they turn into a chief value officer
Accounting hubs are increasingly recognized by finance and technology experts as an essential part of today’s finance architecture. What sets AAH apart is its built-in IP, which includes pre-packaged, industry-specific accounting and business events, along with a multi-GAAP, accounting rules engine, which provides a solid foundation for the transaction, contract, and reference data at the most granular level. AAH also acts as a single source of truth for regulatory and risk reporting, providing trade-level data that feeds into financial statements, regulatory reporting, and monitoring. AAH centralizes an organization’s accounting rules and integrates and aligns data from multiple upstream sources to drive a more streamlined, automated, and transparent reporting process. This allows banks to benefit from bringing all finance data together for activities such as scenario definition, forecasting, modeling, accounting, and reporting. “AAH allows users to consolidate and optimize processes for a strategic compliance approach and use regulatory data to deliver value beyond compliance,” mentions Adam. Finance teams can better understand revenue and income diversity by market, characteristic, and funding, and unlock the value of financial data to provide actionable insights to the business.
Client Success Stories
Unlike many other solution providers in the finance transformation space, Aptitude has a proven track record of successfully implementing finance-owned solutions that deliver results. In one instance, Aptitude helped a leading retail and commercial bank reduce their overall cost and complexity by progressively transforming their finance technology landscape. After acquiring multiple recognized brands over the years, the client was looking for a platform that could handle the complexity of multiple systems and data sources. They needed to consolidate data for reporting purposes and automate existing reporting processes and wanted a scalable platform that could start addressing existing divisional projects and grow into a company-wide strategic solution.
After being selected over a large technology incumbent, the Aptitude Accounting Hub solution was integrated into the client’s existing infrastructure, to support the bank’s dynamic development and deliver financial control and transparency. “With Aptitude, they gained a flexible and cost-effective platform to progressively transform finance,” adds Flowers. Furthermore, because the project resulted in a simplified and standardized finance function, with automated reporting and operations, the bank was able to easily migrate to a cloud general ledger, becoming the first in the UK to achieve this milestone.
Anticipating Tomorrow’s Needs
Aptitude takes pride in being the only financial management software company that brings together finance expertise, innovative software, and a laser-sharp focus to the office of the CFO. They have been selected by world-leading organizations that want game-changing control and foresight when there is uncertainty, fear, and opportunity. Client successes are what propel Aptitude forward.
For the road ahead, the company seeks to further strengthen its presence in the finance and banking market by utilizing the latest technology for componentization and containerized delivery. All future development will be done in conjunction with clients via advisory boards and in collaboration with leading financial and accounting firms to identify new opportunities. The heart of Aptitude’s product development, testing, and product design is its Innovation Center in Wroclaw, Poland, which is becoming a hub for the best tech talent in Europe. “In the near-term, we will also be continuing to invest in our UI to make our products even more intuitive for finance users and enhancing the embedding reporting to further reduce finance’s reliance on IT. We are also investing in the cloud operations side of the business over the next 24 months,” wraps up Flowers.


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Aptitude to Accelerate Autonomous Finance Enabling the Future CFO Office
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In January of 2023, we announced an ... integration of our enterprise accounting hub technology to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance with Fynapse, our fully automated finance management platform. Building on the existing integration with Microsoft, Fynapse is investing in enabling a single view of business and finance data with high data processing speeds.
Our integration with Dynamics 365 will evolve to better enable organizations worldwide to automate manual processes, deliver real-time insights, data, trends, and analytics while freeing finance teams to increase productivity and become a strategic partner to the business, driving competitive advantages for their organizations.
Microsoft is delivering AI tools for CFOs to achieve their goals of productivity, efficiency, and resiliency. Aptitude’s Fynapse platform is a leading intelligent finance data management and accounting platform, delivering robust performance, with the ability to break down data silos and complex data streams into usable and actionable insights, a single view of finance data, to power leading businesses while automating manual process and the application of accounting rules.
“The expansion of our integration with Microsoft demonstrates the power of Fynapse, and its unique ability to deliver a single view of data with real-time processing required to make autonomous finance a reality. Through this collaboration, Autonomous Finance is now achievable for CFOs that are seeking ways to make their Finance department a competitive differentiator for their organizations.” – Alex Curran, CEO, Aptitude
“Data is the currency of AI, and we are pleased to have Aptitude Fynapse within the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365 ecosystem to deliver a robust combination to power Autonomous Finance.” – Georg Glantschnig, Microsoft VP Dynamics 365 AI ERP
What is Autonomous Finance and what do CFOs need to achieve it?
Autonomous Finance, a self-learning and self-improving finance function, powered by interoperable AI and cloud technologies, is a strategic and competitive advantage to an organization. Autonomous Finance is a partner to the finance professional, advising on logical next steps and recommendations based on real data and trends in their organization. Autonomous Finance frees finance from low value and manual repetitive tasks, transforming the CFO office into a strategic and business enabler.
To achieve Autonomous Finance, a CFO needs 4 foundational elements in place;
1) a single and accessible view of all business data
2) a fully interoperable finance technology stack capable of processing large volumes at the pace of business
3) advanced AI capabilities to drive insights from data and
4) a finance architecture to automate manual process and the application of accounting policies
How will Aptitude in collaboration with Microsoft deliver it?
The combination of Aptitude Fynapse, Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management applications, the recently launched Copilot for Finance and the Azure ecosystem powers Autonomous Finance to achieve these elements across a diverse range of industries. This collective proposition delivers a truly unique and differentiated offering in the ERP market.
The synergies between Aptitude Fynapse and Microsoft’s technologies will deliver Autonomous Finance capabilities such as Real-Time Forecasting and Advance Scenario Planning, Enhanced Risk Management and Anomaly Detection, and Regulation Impact Analysis and Compliance.
Aptitude Fynapse is already available in the Azure Marketplace and fully integrated to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management applications, providing a rich accounting rules engine, enterprise subledger, and centralization of finance and business data.
Microsoft will support Aptitude in delivering its Global Autonomous Finance Benchmark Research, which will be presented at a series of global events starting on 19 March in London at Microsoft offices. These events will also include partners to help advise senior finance attendees on the journey and roadmap options for Autonomous Finance.
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