CIOs often say that financial informatization is the simplest and most vexing thing. It is simple because financial informatization is the most standard, and it is a headache because the process is more professional and has many details.
CIO & IT Manager Elite Hui WeChat Group talked a lot about financial informatization. I choose a few pieces to share.
1. What to do
if you are caught in the details problem Even if a CIO with certain financial ability, when dealing with very detailed financial informatization problems, it is often not enough.
Many IT leaders in the group are working on the construction of financial informatization. During the discussion, some issues will be handed over to the group, such as:
For example, your department should remit 1 million in February. After the divestiture, your internal settlement account in this department is only 700,000. But you actually paid back 800,000 in February, so you only have more than 500,000 to pay, what should you do?
Company A and Company B have signed 10 contracts and 5 payments, each payment is 1 million; now Company B pays 500,000, which contract does it correspond to?
If there are friends who have just entered the group, they may mistakenly think that they have entered the accounting and work exchange group.
There are a lot of details in the financial process. There are many problems that even the average financial person can't handle. The CIO should not spend too much energy on the intricate details. These are the jobs of the CFO.
IT spends 90% of the energy on solving 90% of the problems in a business, and the remaining 10% of the business problems may not spend 150% of the energy on it. It is better to take a balanced point on this curve.
CIOs with solid financial knowledge have a stronger competitiveness, but they must use their financial knowledge in a moderate way, and they are caught in endless details.
——Zou Jianguo and Jia Medical Information Manager
II. What to do if a CIO does
not understand finances Not understanding finance is the norm of the new CIO, which also makes financial informatization easily become a weakness of the CIO. Therefore, it is necessary to learn certain financial knowledge.
But only need to understand the introductory knowledge, the professional thing is still left to the CFO.
What do CIOs need to know? It is mainly the specific processing methods of some businesses, such as how the purchase purchase cost is settled; what are the differences between the first-in first-out, mobile weighted average cost, and monthly weighted average cost accounting methods, how to do it; the rules for document filling and document changes Process and so on.
As long as the daily business of the financial management of the enterprise is understood, the ins and outs of the financial information management system can be understood. As for the application of other advanced functions such as data analysis, it is not necessary to understand it in detail. Those are basically CFO's work.
In actual project management, the IT department mainly serves the general employees of the finance department.
3. Finance and delamination
Although the financial system is relatively rigid, there are no fewer pits in the implementation process than other systems.
For example, many companies skip the CIO to purchase the financial system in person. Unless this CFO has a good understanding of enterprise informatization, there must be many problems in the process of implementation and use.
The selection of finance is very important. In general, it is not recommended to change manufacturers, because transferring data is not a simple matter.
An IT manager said that their group changed three financial systems in 10 years. He bluntly said: clearly the financial system is the most stable and the rules with the clearest standards, but it is still being exchanged for! Is it the reason of the financial system itself, or the supporting business system can not be well integrated?
Most of the problems in financial informatization are not technical problems, a large part comes from the contradiction with the business. Even with "business-finance integration", there are still many irreconcilable contradictions between finance and business.
IT is usually used as a buffer zone, which is both a bridge in the middle and a danger zone.
The first pit of the financial system: financial standards, without convening a meeting of various departments to discuss and confirm, whatever you want.
The second pit of the financial system: No matter how it is now, what the system has to do, regardless of changes in future management and business-related needs.
The third pit of the upper financial system: implementation cycle + insufficient basic data preparation.
——The IT manager of Weiguo Blu-ray Group
wants to avoid these pits. Most of them are easy outside and difficult inside. They can only say that they should try to let the boss get the idea and not start the process if the process is not well organized.
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