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      Finance Function Advantage

      Build a world-class finance function that ticks all the boxes: superior service, strong controls and lower cost. Spend more time on higher-value, forward-looking activities and less on accounting and transactional tasks.

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      Better stakeholder experience

      Deliver higher quality decision support, analytics, and services to the business and stakeholders

      Higher quality

      Provide more accurate and effective finance processes with stronger controls

      Lower costs

      Reduce costs by more than 20% through standardization, centralization and automation

      Enhanced talent strategy

      Reskill your team to focus on higher value added activities

      Powerful forces—including regulatory change, activist investors, and technologies like AI and automation—are putting substantial pressure on CFOs and their finance teams.

      We partner with you to quickly identify sources of value, develop a plan of achievable initiatives, turn that plan into action, and sustain the results.

      Our finance function consultants start by ensuring your finance policies, processes, organization, and systems are aligned to your business strategy. Then, we bring a full range of capabilities, including operating model redesign, process redesign, shared services, outsourcing and offshoring, to help you achieve your goals. Throughout the process, Vector℠, our integrated digital delivery platform, provides advanced analytics and automation expertise.

      To sustain your results over the long-term, we’ll also address the critical talent and change management activities so essential to building an extraordinary finance team. and fostering the necessary culture and behavior changes.

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      “The CFOs who succeed lead this effort as enterprise stewards, not just finance operators.”

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      When a global consumer goods company’s campaign to transform its finance organization had run aground, Bain worked with the team to streamline the transformation process.

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      A financial transformation is powered by a strategic end-state vision and a flexible approach.
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        Partnership enables clients worldwide to accelerate AI-driven productivity gains with enhanced speed and efficiency through Palantir’s cutting-edge enterprise AI platforms, yielding tangible impact in weeks

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      Most CFOs are not using stablecoins today, but evolving regulations could reduce risk and create competitive advantage.
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      CNBC’s 2025 CFO Council Summit: Rebuilding Finance in the Age of AI
      Leaders are using AI to transform finance into an insight engine.
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      Autonomous Finance and the CFO's Next Frontier
      At the CNBC CFO Council Summit, Bain Partners Michael Heric and Steve Beam discussed how innovative CFOs are using AI to transform finance.
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      Transform your operating model to simplify your organization, streamline work processes, reveal digital opportunities and unlock massive savings.

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      Transform corporate finance to propel your strategy. We help CFOs and finance leaders boost shareholder returns, master capital markets, build superior end-to-end M&A capabilities, and more.

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      Process redesign can help you deliver the highest quality service in the most productive way at the most competitive cost. We have helped hundreds of companies do just that, typically saving them 20% to 30% of the addressable cost base. 

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      We bridge strategy and tech to accelerate your digital transformation and ensure enduring results.

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      Our Share Smarter, Serve Better approach helps you rethink what work gets done, how and by whom. The result: Your people can focus their skills and energy on the work that matters most to your strategy - and do it faster, smarter and more efficiently.

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      Team up with the best external sourcing partners, blending their capabilities with your own, to gain access to best-in-class capabilities to improve your competitive position

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