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Introducing InvestAcceleration, Deloitte’s investment management accelerator

The increasing complexity of investment and business models, stiff competition for deals and returns, ever-changing regulatory requirements—the challenges within the investment management industry are all-too familiar. However, many firms are ill-equipped to handle today’s rapidly evolving finance and human resources needs as the technology they’ve been using to tackle these tough topics continues to lag. Through our extensive expertise and deep knowledge base within the investment management sector, we’ve uncovered insights to drive the development of new innovations, like a pre-configured solution that designed specifically for the investment management industry.

Whether your company is a global private equity and asset manager or a regional investment manager, the solution can help you in your efforts to address the following complexity drivers:

Industry/finance specific complexity drivers

  1. Fund/deal reimbursables: ability to control, report & trace spends, reimbursements by funds & deals
  2. Allocations: allocate spends/revenue through rule-based calculations with flexible updating capabilities
  3. Project costs: authorize, track and capitalize certain project costs and closing to either assets or expenses
  4. Auto customer payment processing: auto create payments/deposits via integrated bank statement lines & reconcile activities
  5. Accrual to cash: report on GAAP and Cash basis, immediate regardless of capitalization/deferral treatment
  6. Consolidation: auto consolidate/perform elimination via configuration vs. use of elimination entities/entries
  7. Multi-currency: transaction, Book, Translation basis; rule-based automated calculation of revaluation and g&l
  8. Time tracking: improved ability spends allocation for labor cost and other expenses for shared resources
  9. Multibook asset cost basis: maintain multiple asset book calculation methods for book, tax, state, etc.
  10. Reporting: relying heavily on offline / manual report creation methods that are error prone and time consuming

Solution overview

WHAT is the Deloitte InvestAcceleration solution?

  • A preconfigured Tenant on a cloud platform.
  • A deployment accelerator focused on investment
  • management-specific processes.
  • A proven implementation approach based on client experience
  • and leading practices for large and mid-sized investment
  • management companies.

HOW does the Deloitte InvestAcceleration solution work?

  • Deloitte developed a comprehensive set of proven processes, data
  • models and workflows specifically for investment management firms.
  • This pre-configured tenant environment enables users to view and
  • better understand how the final solution will operate.
  • A persona-based process design focuses on enhancing the user
  • experience and value-added activities.
  • An industry-informed, insights-driven data model supports enhanced,
  • real-time decision making.

WHY should you choose Deloitte InvestAcceleration solution?

Key to driving growth and profitability in an organization is its abilityto make the most out of its people and financial capital. The solutioncombines our industry experience with Workday’s cloud-platform to helpcompanies in their efforts to unlock the value of their employees and assetswith streamlined workflows, centralized data, and unprecedented insightsand analytics that drive impact to their top and bottom lines.

Potential impact and benefits

Companies can see changes immediately and experience the impact instantly

Issues faced

  • Outdated back-office technology implementation
  • Manual adjustments/lengthy close cycle
  • 60+ manual shared resource allocation set
  • Over reliance on spreadsheets
  • Limited workflow — paper based processes
  • Offline and complex bottoms-up planning, budgeting and forecasting processes
  • Highly manual and reactive reporting and ad-hoc analysis

Solution

  • Finance technology assessment, recommendation, and roadmap
  • Financials system vendor selection
  • Full service Global roll out – including data conversion and training support – of Workday financials systems implementation including: FDM/Business Process Design
    • Core Financials
    • Procurement
    • Projects
    • Time/Expense Management
    • Integrations/Reporting

Impact 

  • Consistent and streamlined data model
  • Process standardization across regions and elimination of paper-based process
  • Improved control and systematic audit trail for transactions and adjustments
  • Integrated bank statements and recon
  • Improved intercompany processes, consolidation and elimination capabilities
  • Enforcement of global expense policy
  • Foundation for FP&A future state
  • Full integration with HR capabilities

Issues faced

  • Outdated legacy ERP system
  • Lengthy close cycle
  • Ineffective data governance
  • Incomplete/unmaintained master data
  • Non-uniform workflows and transaction
  • data requirements
  • Paper and email requests/workflows 

Solution

  • Complete Finance Assessment, recommendations,
  • and roadmap
  • Full service Global roll out – including data conversion and training support – of Workday financials systems implementation including:
  • FDM/Business Process Design
    • Core Financials
    • Procurement
    • Projects
    • Time/Expense Management
    • Integrations/Reporting/FX

Impact

  • Improved data quality, process efficiency and controls
  • Automation of fund reimbursable process
  • Improved aging of AR and AP
  • Improved intercompany process
  • Centralized and standard workflows
  • Trackable business assets
  • Streamlined GL structure utilizing multi-dimensional worktags framework
  • Improved data audit and record retention
  • Single HR and Finance platform

Let our expertise accelerate your path to progress.
 

Our solution is backed by leading on -site experience and insight others simplycan’t deliver.

  • Deloitte serves 49 of the 54 banking and securities companies
  • We work with 3 of the 4 investment management company on Fortune Global 500
  • Our team has successfully completed 60+ financial services (HR and Finance) projects worldwide

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