Wealth Management – The Controller Pain Chain – Part I

  • By zoltan-szakal
  • October 27, 2016
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Continuing our analysis of the Pain Chain as it relates to Wealth Management, this week and next we will explore the pain points of the Controller in a Wealth Management Organization

Wealth Management Goal 1 – Maximize Growth and Profitability across the Operating Companies

The Requirement

You need to generate integrated financial and management reports for the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer that consolidate and drilldown by operating company, location, customer, instrument, currency, …. You need to close different entities for period ends and consolidate across entities with full multi-currency support.

The Pain

Today you use Excel and batch imports from multiple databases. It takes 10’s and sometimes up to 100 hours to deliver these and the process is very error prone. When they want more information or a drilldown it can take 10’s of hours to do. Now they want not only to close the books quarterly but to have monthly management dashboards.

The Need

To quickly produce consolidated reports that allow the CFO and CIO to drilldown and dice and slice themselves with full multi-entity and multi-currency support.

Wealth Management Goal 2 – Minimize Cost to the Operating Companies through Shared Services

The Requirement

You need a better way than setting up, installing, maintaining, administering and running a separate system per operating company.

The Pain

Today you copy data between multiple databases and synchronize changes. You have thousands of accounts.

The Need

To share cross-entity data and activities such as (a) Customers, vendors and GL accounts (b) Centralize payments on behalf of operating companies (c) Centralize receivables for many or all of the operating companies (d) Centralize check cutting for many or all of the operating companies (e) Apportion AP invoices to multiple entities.

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