Microsoft Modern Finance Story: FSI Fridays #30

By adopting innovative technologies, how Microsoft finance strengthen its business leadership and cultivate company growth through more efficient and productive allocation of resources and stronger compliance. Microsoft Finance leaders will come and talk about our story to reduce finance cost and enhance effectiveness. ▬ Contents of this episode ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 - Introductions 4:52 - Finance challenges in FSI Industry 6:51 - Finance function costs/revenue 8:23 - New emerging roles in Finance 9:25 - MSFT Revenue growth vs Finance headcount 11:46 - Why Microsoft got started on this journey? 13:16 - Reduce time spent on various activities in Finance 15:12 - Technology capabilities enabling finance employees 18:56 - Microsoft's technology adoption for Finance 21:29 - Microsoft timeline for finance transformation journey 23:55 - Modern Finance impact at Microsoft (solutions) 26:34 - Financial Services adoption of Modern Finance transformation 28:43 - Getting started call to actions 32:08 - Open Q&A - How can FSI organizations get started? 33:13 - Open Q&A - Lessons learned in this transformation? 35:10 - Open Q&A - What are 3 low handing areas for FSI to focus on? Resources Microsoft Modern Finance Page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/moder... #MSFT Finance Reimagined Webinar https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/micr... Microsoft Financial Services Webpage https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/indus...