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The Role of the Modern Controller
The role of Controller is expanding beyond just numbers.
Focusing on these key areas can make your role more strategic, benefiting the entire organization.
But as companies scale, so will your responsibilities, and finding the support you need to reach your
full potential can be challenging.
To successfully transform your Controller role, there’s one fundamental question that needs to be
answered:
It’s important to empower your team to efficiently manage With 50% YoY growth and 500+ monthly publisher payouts,
back-office tasks by providing them with the right solutions. Mark Lewis, CFO of LockerDome was looking for a solution that
Automation can provide the relief your team needs to manage would free his finance team from the counterintuitive treasury
payments. Plus, it can increase financial controls and reporting — management platform that their bank provided.
uncovering actionable, strategic insights. By adopting an automated payables solution, Lewis was able to
keep his team lean while successfully shifting their focus to more
strategic initiatives such as networking, marketplace analysis,
financing, and M&A options.
Manual, back-office tasks can take up a lot of your team’s time For Toni Tornell, ULG’s Controller, the finance team had struggled
and energy. When evaluating which aspects of your business to with their manual payables processes for a year and a half.
automate, look at the functions that would alleviate your team’s
By adopting an automated payables solution, overall processes
day-to-day operations and transform your transactional processing.
improved, international and early payments became more efficient,
Setting up a scalable financial tech stack for your company is one of
and the need to hire more headcount was eliminated.
the most important finance initiatives.
Finance automation eliminates tedious work and allows your “Finance processes that used to take our
finance team to actively contribute to your company’s overall team 1-2 weeks are being completed in
strategic operations. 1-2 days.”
Prioritize Retention
As a Controller, nobody feels the pain of payables quite like you and your
team. As your business continues to scale, it’s important to focus on both
employee and customer retention.
In today’s landscape, scaling businesses often deal with distributed For Richmond Ang, Tapjoy’s Assistant Controller, the team was
workforces—your finance team can be based anywhere and prioritizing publisher payments as it was critical to the success of
operate globally. To retain top talent, you want to provide the best their business. Still, it was a process that no single employee could
do efficiently or effectively.
resources to help them succeed. Finance automation eliminates the
manual drudgery from your team’s workload and allows them the Adopting an automated payables solution decreased the finance
team’s workload by over 50%. Plus, by ensuring timely and accurate
flexibility to access key financial data anytime, anywhere.
payments, Tapjoy’s processes were elevated to the highest
industry standards.
People Assets
Are you supporting your team and Are your company’s data and resources
making their jobs more efficient? successfully safeguarded?
Technology Risk
Have you evaluated and implemented Do you have the right level of financial
the right automation solutions? control?
Reporting
Is your close process timely, accurate,
and dependable?
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