Reshaping your strategy: How HR and Finance can work together to create a winning strategy

This 20 min webinar introduces Financials Operations, our project management solution enabling real-time visibility and control of your projects’ profitability within and outside the finance function.

Gain real-time visibility and control of your project’s profitability with our project management system.

After a turbulent 2020, many professional services firms and project-oriented businesses are considering whether fundamental changes must now be made in order to leverage the most potential from 2021. Read on for some fresh thinking on reshaping your business.

In this article, we examine how including input from managers in Finance and HR – not separately but as part of a focused joint effort – can bring some surprising new ideas to the table. Find out how.

The start of 2021 is a good time to reevaluate your business strategy. Having managed to make it through in spite of the tough trading conditions and unprecedented upheaval of 2020, the new year is an excellent opportunity for a fresh start and perhaps a new lease of life.

Unpredictability has been a difficult issue for professional services and other project-oriented businesses during 2020. In the aftermath of perhaps one of the most problematic years in recent memory, now business leaders across the sector are looking for new ways to meet today’s challenges head on. We’ve taken three of the most common challenges – and then identified how Finance teams could address them effectively using technology.

A new year means a fresh start – and most HR leaders will be glad to close the door on the difficult working conditions and unprecedented challenges of 2020. We aren’t out of the woods just yet but could this be the ideal time to take a fresh look at your HR strategies and make some new plans for the coming year.

In this article, we look at project profitability analysis from the Finance leader perspective. We identify 10 ways in which the profit margin in project management can be protected and maximised.

We recently caught up with Steve Berridge, Director of our Financial Management Software Division within Access Group, to look at how finance professionals, key stakeholders and project managers can keep their projects on time and within budget.

2020 was the most unpredictable year in recent memory – and that’s meant some difficult problems to wrestle with for professional services companies and other project-oriented businesses. It’s been particularly challenging for HR leaders as staff have had to face even more than their usual day-to-day pressures. So we’ve taken three of the most common issues and identified how HR can resolve these more effectively using technology.

Brown & Co use suite of Access software to bring consistent processes to their diverse business units, improving efficiency and visibility