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Finance Function Excellence

Finance functions must take on a demanding new role and become strategic partners to help organizations stay ahead of the competition and fulfill their missions. BCG works with CFOs and their teams to build a future-ready finance function.

Chief financial officers today grapple with a challenging mix of macroeconomic volatility, investor expectations, efficiency imperatives, digital opportunities, sustainability requirements, and shifting capability needs. The role of the finance function must broaden to unleash the power of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence and collaborate with business leaders to actively manage strategic planning, resource allocation, and value-driven performance.


Our Approach to Finance Function Excellence

We help CFOs and their teams in all industries enhance the role of the finance function and drive a finance function transformation anchored on four pillars:

Our approach is one pillar of BCG’s corporate finance and strategy services that also includes:

  • Zero-based transformation to free up resources to drive growth and innovation by implementing a bottom-up cost optimization program. 
  • Shareholder value advisory to apply a value creation lens to portfolio strategy, corporate decision-making, and capital allocation decisions supported by BCG’s proprietary TSR methodology.   

BCG’s Center for CFO Excellence

Our Center for CFO Excellence—the hub of BCG’s knowledge of the CFO domain—draws on the firm’s extensive experience in finance function consulting across diverse industries to help finance functions achieve the highest standard of effectiveness and efficiency.


BCG’s CFO Excellence Panel

Our CFO Excellence Panel is BCG’s premium benchmarking tool that compares your finance function’s performance with detailed best practices of more than 800 peers from all industries and regions. It leverages quantitative and qualitative KPIs to give CFOs systematic insights into their function’s efficiency and effectiveness; transparency into the function’s relative strengths and weaknesses; and tailored, action-oriented advice on priorities promotes the achievement of step-change improvements.

As a member of the CFO Panel, your progress can be validated every year.

Contact the CFO Excellence Panel for more details

Our Insights on Finance Function Transformation

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The Finance Function Needs a Talent Upgrade

The mandate for finance is evolving from simple bookkeeping to serving as a trusted business partner. To succeed, CFOs must develop their current workforce and recruit talent from new sources.

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The CFO Agenda

Our CFO insights help leaders excel in balancing the CFO agenda, managing daily operations, and driving transformation for long-term success.

Meet Our Finance Function Consulting Team

Our finance function consulting team helps CFOs and finance leaders transform their finance function operating models to achieve higher efficiency and effectiveness, unleash the power of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, orchestrate companywide transformations to drive the corporate value agenda, and more. Here are some of our experts on this topic.

Perspectives on Strategy and Value: Insights on creating sustainable value in an uncertain world.