Unfiltered Stories | In conversation with industry leaders on the idea of data-driven finance

In this edition of Unfiltered Stories, Reetika Fleming, Executive Research Leader, and Saurabh Gupta, President, Research & Advisory Services at HFS Research are in conversation with Narasimha Kini, Executive Vice President, and Anita Mahon, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Healthcare at EXL about the idea of data-driven finance. HFS, in partnership with EXL, reached out to 207 F&A leaders worldwide and across industries to understand how the finance landscape is changing and embracing the journey to becoming data-driven. This report highlights these enterprises’ responses to this journey, where they see themselves in it, and what role they see “finance” as a means to achieving this end. Reetika, Saurabh, Narasimha, and Anita cover a range of topics, including: What is the north star for CFOs? So, is there a shift in how CFOs and the finance organization want to be perceived in the organization too? Where are the people on this journey of data-driven finance? What muscle group does finance either need to develop or bulk up to be data-driven? How should finance function and healthcare think about this idea of becoming data-driven? In our report, we identified the subset of companies that are making strong progress on elements of data-driven finance - Who are they and what is their secret sauce? What are the best practices that EXL is seeing from their successful clients on this data-driven journey? You can read the related POV here: https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/behind-every-successful-enterprise-is-data-driven-finance/