Axiom Planning and Profitability
Transforming decision making and steering the course for profitable growth strategies
Forward-thinking financial institutions rely on the role of the CFO for more than financial reporting. CFOs now balance traditional responsibilities with analysis and insights that inform strategy and drive growth.
Meeting today’s business challenges requires a what-if, scenario-based approach to finance. When combined with trusted technology, future-minded data analysis can drive profitable growth along with greater efficiency and accuracy. Data-driven analysis and disciplined thinking are essential to near-term success and long-term sustainability, but these require a unified product platform, increased transparency and the fundamental principles of corporate finance.
Axiom Planning and Profitability, offered via a relationship with Syntellis Performance Solutions, provides finance leaders with the tools needed to accurately quantify the financial impact of the decisions they face.
Axiom Planning and Profitability combines budgeting, long-range planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, and funds transfer pricing and profitability analysis on a single integrated SaaS platform. Using robust reporting and analytics capabilities, financial institutions are positioned to better manage and enhance financial and organizational performance with strategic, growth-focused decision making.
Transform financial decision making and set a course toward profitable growth strategies
Analyze historical results and trends to better manage variances and root-cause analysis
Model future business scenarios to stay nimble as business conditions change
Mitigate and reduce risk by providing updated forecasts throughout the year
Improve strategic decision making with comprehensive and flexible reports, dashboards and data visualizations
Shorten overall budget cycles and increase operational efficiencies by automating processes
Gain new insights and visibility for improved profitability by understanding value drivers
Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
Deliver timely and accurate information to support financial performance while adapting to change
- Take a collaborative approach to financial planning with comprehensive, integrated budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis and long-range planning tools
- Develop financial forecasting based on market and operational drivers, leveraging best practice calculation methodologies and cash flow-based planning
- Reduce errors, imports and duplicate data entry with a single system for budget inputs
Funds Transfer Pricing and Profitability
Accurately understand your sources of profitability
- Improve accuracy via transparent, matched-term funds transfer pricing
- Measure profitability at an account level and aggregate to any dimension to drive more informed business decisions
- Gain visibility into which customers, products, branches and other segments drive the most value for your institution
Reporting and Analytics
Quickly uncover and deliver crucial, transformative information
- Reduce reporting time via automated reports and deliver comprehensive profitability results to the right people at the right time
- Improve timely, strategic decision making with configurable reports, dashboards, data visualizations and KPI metrics
- Adapt to changing business conditions using actionable insights revealed by current and historical FTP, periodic forecasting and profitability analysis
- Measure and analyze full profit contribution and risk adjusted return on capital (RAROC), applying a matrix-based risk assessment approach
Leverage Axiom Planning and Profitability with your enterprise performance management solutions and core banking platform from Fiserv as part of a broader strategy to drive overall corporate performance.
Axiom Planning and Profitability
Axiom Planning and Profitability combines budgeting, planning, forecasting and funds transfer pricing and profitability, along with advanced reporting and analytics capabilities, to help financial institutions manage and enhance financial and organizational performance.
Four Keys to Stronger Financial Planning
Now is the optimal time to reexamine your organization’s planning processes and overall strategic and tactical plans. As financial institutions assess their processes, there are four key areas to consider for concentrated strategic planning.
Insights
Finding Growth Opportunities in a Changing Landscape
The banking industry faces increased margin pressures from low interest rates, declining traditional fee income and increasing competition. That means diversifying revenue streams with noninterest-income sources is important. But you need the right decisioning tools to turn those scenarios into successful opportunities.
How Financial Institutions Can Prepare for the Unexpected
COVID-19 drove home the importance of a more data-driven and agile planning model, one that leverages up-to-date technologies and workflows that today's CFOs must have to quickly respond to market events.
No Crystal Ball: Why Financial Institutions Need Profitability Analysis
Even amid uncertainty, financial institutions need to make astute decisions about product and service delivery, and plan for more stable times. CFOs need to understand the value of each profit contributor – and how it responds to change – to offer guidance that goes beyond reporting and monitoring.