This session was presented at Oracle Cloud Summit Virtual 2025.
The month-end close is a critical process for every finance team, yet it's often plagued by manual data entry, tedious reconciliations, and endless spreadsheet gymnastics. This reliance on outdated methods not only introduces risk and errors but also consumes valuable time that your team could be spending on strategic analysis. This session will showcase how finance professionals can leverage modern analytics in multiple ways to improve the month end close process providing key financial data to the right finance team members at the right time enabling them to create a streamlined, reliable, and faster close process with Power BI and Excel utilized in a governed way. In this session, you will learn how to: - Automate the consolidation of financial data from multiple ERPs or multiple instances of your ERP if required. - Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets and eliminate the associated risk of errors. - Streamline the preparation of financial statements and management reports with a single source of truth. - Help your finance team raise the bar enabling them to focus on high-impact analysis and strategic initiatives.