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 quickly 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
Fund/deal reimbursables: ability to control, report & trace spends, reimbursements by funds & deals
Allocations: allocate spends/revenue through rule-based calculations with flexible updating capabilities
Project costs: authorise, track and capitalise certain project costs and closing to either assets or expenses
Auto customer payment processing: auto create payments/deposits via integrated bank statement lines & reconcile activities
Accrual to cash: report on GAAP and Cash basis, immediate regardless of capitalisation/deferral treatment
Consolidation: auto consolidate/perform elimination via configuration vs. use of elimination entities/entries
Multi-currency: transaction, Book, Translation basis; rule-based automated calculation of revaluation and g&l
Time tracking: improved ability spends allocation for labour cost and other expenses for shared resources
Multibook asset cost basis: maintain multiple asset book calculation methods for book, tax, state etc.
Reporting: relying heavily on off-line/manual report creation methods that are error prone and time consuming
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 tenet 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 organisation 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, centralised data and unprecedented insightsand analytics that drive impact to their top and bottom lines.
Companies can see changes immediately and experience the impact instantly
Private Equity and Alternative Asset Manager
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
Off-line 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 standardisation 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
Global Multi-Asset Investment Management Firm
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