Operational Challenges CFOs Face

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Manual Processes

Manual, fragmented finance processes slow your team down and drain productivity. Streamlining and automating operations unlocks a more efficient, strategic, and growth-focused finance function that drives business success.

Spend Visibility

Lack of Visibility

Disconnected systems limit insight into spend, control gaps and opportunities for improvement. Uncover hidden savings, reduce financial leakage, and recover lost revenue trapped in your accounts payable data.

General Risk

Hidden Risks

Overpayments, fraud, and inaccurate vendor data put your entire enterprise at risk. Strengthen financial controls and safeguard every transaction with automated, proactive validation.

The CFO’s Silent Threat:
Revenue Leakage & Vendor Risk

Every day, finance teams lose money to duplicate payments, missed credits, and fraudulent activity. In an increasingly digital and fast-moving world, these issues aren’t just clerical—they’re strategic. The rise in AI-powered fraud, sophisticated phishing schemes, and vendor manipulation demands smarter, automated defenses.

 

CFOs must evolve from reactive risk managers to proactive protectors of enterprise value.

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How to Mitigate Risk and Strengthen Financial Operations

Audit & Recovery: Find and Fix Financial Leaks

Revenue leakage often hides in duplicate payments and missed credits—especially in complex vendor ecosystems and fragmented ERP environments. Manual processes make it even harder to catch these errors, quietly draining millions from the bottom line.

 

In fact, for every $1 billion in spend, an estimated $2 million in overpayments slip through normal ERP controls.

 

To combat this, leading organizations use recovery audits to identify payment errors, duplicates, and missed credits. These audits not only recover lost funds but also deliver insights to strengthen controls and prevent repeat mistakes—turning recovery into a tool for continuous improvement.

 

 

Real-World Results

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Bank Account Validation: Eliminate Payment Risk at the Source

Fraudulent bank account change requests are a top tactic for fraudsters. Attackers pose as legitimate suppliers to redirect payments, exploiting weak validation processes. Even one compromised update can lead to major financial losses.

 

Check and payment tampering schemes go undetected for an average of 24 months, making early prevention critical.

 

The solution? Real-time bank account validation at onboarding and throughout the supplier lifecycle helps ensure payments always reach the correct party. Integrated with global data sources, these tools catch fraud early, reduce payment errors, and lower supplier friction. apexanalytix provides bank account ownership validation in the following countries: US, China, Czech Republic, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, Poland, South Korea, Sweden (GIRO), UK, and Vietnam.

 

 

Real-World Results

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Fraud Detection: Detect the Undetectable

Fraud is evolving fast—targeting vulnerabilities across procure-to-pay systems with tactics like fake suppliers, impersonation, and payment redirection. These attacks often strike during onboarding or vendor updates, when controls are weakest.

 

To stay ahead, organizations are turning to fraud detection solutions that continuously monitors vendor activity, flags anomalies, and scores risk in real time.

 

This proactive approach is critical—especially when the average loss per fraud case is $1.7 million. With automated controls and constant oversight, teams can detect fraud early and act before damage is done.

 

 

Real-World Results

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Invoice Visibility: Answer the #1 Supplier Question

When suppliers can’t see invoice or payment status, they flood help desks with questions—slowing down AP teams and straining relationships. The result is unnecessary friction and wasted time on both sides.

 

Self-service supplier portals give vendors secure, real-time access to invoice and payment updates without needing to contact internal teams.

 

Organizations that implement these tools often reduce help desk inquiries by up to 60% and achieve full ROI in as little as six months—freeing up resources and boosting supplier satisfaction.

 

 

Real-World Results

Northwestern Medicine: 80% of Suppliers’ Questions Answered

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Early Payment Programs: Maximize Discounts Captured

Traditional early payment programs often miss the mark—limited by static discounts, manual processes, and one-size-fits-all offers. Without personalization or real-time insight, adoption stays low and value is lost on both sides.

 

Modern solutions use automation and supplier segmentation to deliver dynamic discounting tailored to supplier needs and cash flow cycles. Suppliers get faster access to cash, while finance teams unlock real savings and improve working capital strategy.

 

This data-driven approach turns AP from a cost center into a value driver.

 

 

Real-World Results

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Voices of Financial Confidence

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We have a confidence level when sending out a payment that it is going to the right company."
Lewis Moore, General Manager, Accounting at Delta Watch Now
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No other company could offer us the technology that apexanalytix brings to the table. Their software is irreplaceable and keeps us up to date.”
Director of Finance Operations
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Bank validation is an evolving practice. We’ve got to find technological advances to help us drive improvement initiatives and bring additional value to the company. apex gives us the ability to do that.”
Director of Finance & Procurement at a $100B Company
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The success we’ve achieved with overpayment prevention has raised our visibility within our broader systems community around the globe. Now other portions of the business are looking at what we’ve accomplished to follow in our footsteps.”
Systems Accounting Manager, Finance Shared Services