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Financial Services Review | Tuesday, August 27, 2024
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Risk management automation allows CFOs and other finance executives to update several financial policies to increase efficacy, strengthen funding, and facilitate business expansion. Automation helps CEOs reach a greater degree of preparation to maintain their firms through disruptive events as they are under pressure to get distributed finance teams functioning with optimized speed, integration, and reliability.
CFOs and other financial executives are adopting digitalization and automation on a larger scale. To help them spend less time on mechanical financial tasks, they identify profit in investing in modern technology and continuing the digital transformation of their business.
However, in the context of credits and receivables, large and small businesses risk the possibility of decreased revenue and slow progress if they fail to manage primary risk factors within their finance mechanisms. As in cash-to-credit procedures, where regulated decision-making functions may enable rapid responses while maintaining manual assets for deviations, not conventional issues, automation in risk management assists finance staff in tackling such risks directly.
Credit-to-Cash Aspects that Benefit from Risk Management Automation
Credit Onboarding
Credit onboarding automation software may streamline the time-consuming and manual process of making risk assessments, which is supported by thorough, high-quality data. Credit evaluations would occur in minutes rather than hours or days. This minimizes the danger of losing a good customer due to lengthy approval procedures while making the sales team pleased and starting customer relationships well.
Customer Portfolio Management Strategies
Automated systems may keep track of changes to credit accounts and then take measures based on techniques developed for near-infinite account management or funding pursuit measures, including immediate notices or fresh policy suggestions.
Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment
Automated systems can offer consumers more flexible payment options that benefit both parties, improving customer satisfaction and speeding up the payment process. The danger of slow or non-payment is further decreased when you enable electronic invoicing, also known as e-invoicing, and the opportunity for clients to pay you online through a payment gateway.
Customer Contact Strategies
Automated customer contact systems define rules for creating and delivering various kinds of template-based communication in accordance with client behavior patterns and whether they satisfy particular requirements. This eliminates the need for manual intervention, and lengthy spreadsheet and work list reviews to determine the best contact approach for each customer.
Predictive Cash Forecasting
Automated income forecasting programs provide instant collection and review of statistics and patterns from receivables, producing a more immediate and precise analysis of the future. Finance executives may receive a longer-term view of the firm's cash status with more rapid and exact cash prediction, allowing them to take proactive measures to solve liquidity deficits before they become major concerns for the company.