Manual migraines are hamstringing the order-to-cash and source-to-pay continuum. And the legacy headaches couldn’t have picked a worse time to stick around, what with today’s ongoing macro challenges making speed to cash and access to working capital more important than ever. Still, order to cash...
Time is money — and an enterprise’s treasurer needs to keep a steady hand on both. That’s why PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster sat down with Catherine Simpson and Krista Sharp, co-heads of Treasury Services for Middle Market Banking and Specialized Industries at JPMorgan Chase, to get their insights into how...
Today’s chief financial officers aren’t just closing the books; they’re often the ones writing the story. That’s because as digitization continues to sweep across the business landscape it is transforming the role of finance teams from bean counters and scorekeepers to business partners and strategic...
Long gone are the days when Excel and PowerPoint ruled supreme in the CFO office. That’s because in today’s fast-paced and hyper-connected operating environment, future-fit technology and data-science-driven solutions are the new tools finance leaders are using to help keep the score. “It’s becoming a...
Add managing for the macroclimate to the ever-growing task list of leading chief financial officers. “I wake up thinking about this, and I go to bed thinking about it,” NextRoll CFO Sue Choe told PYMNTS. Still, Choe emphasized that as the day-to-day obligations of finance leaders continue to grow, it’s...
Amid today’s hostile macroclimate, the CFO role has taken on increased importance. Daniella Turenshine, chief financial officer at direct-to-consumer (DTC) healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand FIGS, knows this all too well. Turenshine tells PYMNTS that with market conditions constantly changing and past events shaping the future,...
The uniquely contemporary challenges of today’s macroclimate are transforming the finance department. Among historic levels of inflation, rising interest rates, dwindling access to financing, and ongoing black swan events, the notions of bank risk and treasury management have risen to the forefront of CFOs’ minds....
Today’s new macroenvironment has brought with it new responsibilities for finance leaders. Still, no matter the landscape, one of the principal roles of the chief financial officer is to protect the balance sheet by relying upon concrete fundamentals that ensure long-term visibility over working capital...
The future of business operations is undoubtedly digital. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools and automated machine learning (ML) solutions are disrupting the economic landscape and ushering in a new, modern operating environment. The speed at which this digitization is transforming legacy processes across industries makes it more critical than ever...
