Treasury Technology

If you’re looking for ways to help you meet your current treasury objectives, technology is a good place to start. Technology generates many opportunities for you to get the most out of your treasury management system (TMS) capabilities.

Your challenges

  • Over-reliance on Excel or manual work-around: You are using a patchwork of systems with limited automated interfaces requiring manual intervention and work-arounds
  • Sub-optimal use of existing technology: Poor decisions in selecting and/or implementing your technology prevent you from taking advantage of the functional capabilities of your systems
  • Information required by your systems is not available: Even with better integration tools, you struggle to access information from outside sources and turn data into useable information
  • Performance management treasury dashboards: Performance reporting is not usually a core function of treasury systems and management dashboards are still in their infancy
  • Commodities: Functionality is limited in most systems for commodities and information for valuation is sometimes not readily available

In short, you find yourself in need of greater:

  • operational transparency and efficiency
  • automation and straight-through processing
  • integration (sharing of data between applications)
  • scalable solutions (technology that supports changes and growth in your business)
  • flexibility
  • control

How PwC can help you

We can provide you with a combination of corporate treasury systems and programme management skills that assist you in assessing your technology and integrating new technology in your treasury operations.

By establishing strong, independent working relationships with ERP and package vendors, we can provide expert advice on choosing treasury systems solutions, including:

  • Best of Breed packages - flexible packages providing dedicated treasury functionality, and a high degree of integration with underlying business systems and external systems; and
  • ERP-based functionality as a seamless part of the broader process, driven by underlying business system solutions.

We can offer you the following services:

  • system selection & implementation
  • system strategy definition
  • application consulting
  • project integrated review
  • performance management
  • health checks