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Celonis Finance Solution Suite: Freeing Finance functions to become strategic business enablers
Finance leaders are no longer simply bean counters charged with cost control and reporting. They’re value generators and strategic business enablers. As a recent KPMG report summarized, “The Finance function is becoming increasingly integrated into overall business operations, strategic planning and decision-making processes.”
This changed role comes with its pressures. To unlock value, businesses increasingly rely on finance teams to optimize working capital, ensure financial stability and agility, maintain liquidity, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead enterprise-wide transformations. All against the backdrop of rapidly changing regulatory and business landscapes.
As many as 83% of finance leaders say they urgently need to understand how their processes work to create more value. Yet for many, their efforts are hampered by a lack of end-to-end visibility across departments from Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) to Order-to-Cash (O2C). Too many processes are manual and outdated, too many systems are siloed – creating inefficiencies, slowing growth, and hindering transformations. More than half (60%) are also concerned their processes may limit the value they can get with Al. Unlocking processes is the key to unlocking your finance function.
Happily, help is at hand. At our annual product update event, Celonis:Next, we launched the Finance Solution Suite. Driven by Process Intelligence (PI) and artificial intelligence (AI), the Suite comprises all the tools and connectors you need to maximize value from your finance processes and become true strategic enablers. At the speed and scale your business needs.
Meet the Celonis Finance Solution Suite
It’s tough to optimize what you can’t see. This is no longer a problem for finance leaders. The Celonis Finance Solution Suite, announced during our Celonis:Next 2025 product showcase, provides end-to-end transparency of finance processes, capturing precisely how cash flows through a business, surfacing value opportunities, highlighting inefficiencies, and mitigating compliance risks.
As a result, the Suite is a one-stop-shop for finance process optimization. It’s powered by Process Intelligence, which enables the Suite to form the connective tissue linking transactional finance process data from all your key systems with real-time business context and KPI data.
A comprehensive range of purpose-built solutions puts these insights to work, addressing common challenges across Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, and beyond. The net result? You are empowered to take targeted action to:
Enhance your organization’s financial agility and cost efficiency
Optimize working capital and compliance
Maximize the finance function’s ROI with automation and AI
Drive operational resilience and adaptability
Put the Finance Solution Suite in your corner and get ready to join the world-class organizations enjoying significant tangible results with Celonis, including:
PepsiCo– which has unlocked millions in Accounts Receivable and reduced write-offs, achieved an 86% reduction in rejected sales orders, and saved over 1,000 hours per year in Accounts Payable.
Neste – which has halved its invoicing lead time, impacting cash flow by an estimated €55M every month.
What’s in the Celonis Finance Solution Suite?
As the name Finance Solution Suite suggests, there’s an extensive range of finance-focused functionality ready to use and easy to adopt when you open the box. Let’s take a look.
Process connectors to finance systems
First you’ve got to consolidate your data. Celonis is system-agnostic, which means getting data and insights from your critical finance systems into the PI platform couldn’t be easier.
The Finance Solution Suite offers more than 35 out-of-the-box connectors to leading financial systems including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Coupa, and more. At the same time, the Suite provides pre-built data objects and events from existing ERPs systems to create a common language and ensure easily shared insights between platforms.
Process data and business context
The heart of the Celonis platform (and therefore the Finance Solution Suite) is the Process Intelligence Graph. The PI Graph connects every piece of process data from across the tech stack and enriches it with critical business context – including Days Sales Outstanding, Days Payable Outstanding, or Days Inventory Outstanding – to create a digital twin of how finance processes actually operate.
As a single, silo-busting source of finance function truth, this digital twin consolidates tasks, processes, and events across purchase requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, goods receipts, invoices, and payments into one end-to-end view. This not only provides the perfect platform for uncovering value hidden in finance processes, but also for providing the ideal data diet for maximizing the impact of AI systems.
To help with ease of set-up and accelerate speed to value, the Finance Solution Suite also comes with pre-defined business rules and process models targeted to finance goals. Even newcomers to the Celonis Platform can be generating actionable insights in weeks not months.
Production-ready apps and solutions
Finance has long been a core focus for Celonis and its customers. As a result, there’s an extensive selection of pre-built apps with dedicated dashboards designed to enhance analysis and optimization initiatives across key finance workflows.
Accounts Payable Apps
Payment Term Checker App: Highlights any discrepancies between accounting documents, POs, and vendor master data to optimize payment term usage (preventing early payments and enhancing cash flow).
Duplicate Invoice Checker App: Prevent overpayments and duplicate payments by detecting and managing duplicate invoices using AI-driven intelligent matching and real-time ERP integration.
Open Credit Memo App: Improve net cash flow by optimizing open credit memo management, monitoring and intelligently prioritizing open memos based on value, aging, and risk of write-offs.
Parked & Blocked Invoices App: Optimize on-time payment and cash discount realization by consolidating parked and blocked invoices into a unified view. This enables faster resolution, root cause analysis, and streamlined processes.
Currency Checker App: Dynamically detect, prioritize, and correct currency mismatches across POs and invoices to prevent payment delays.
Baseline Date Optimization App: Improve your working capital and optimize Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) by identifying and addressing discrepancies between the baseline date and key invoice dates in scenarios such as a late invoice or goods receipt.
Accounts Receivable Apps
Unearned Cash Discounts App: Use process insights to protect margins and recover lost revenue by systematically identifying and addressing incorrectly applied early payment discounts.
Payment Terms Optimization App: Ensure customer payment terms align with contracts, standardize them across the organization, and streamline collections to drive working capital improvements.
Deductions Leakage App: Reduce revenue leakage from invalid deductions by comparing recoveries and historical write-off decisions against industry benchmarks. The app provides monitoring and root cause analysis of these write-offs and invalid deductions.
Sailfin Collections & Dispute Management App: Intelligently prioritize and automate collection workflows and dispute resolution processes. The app consolidates invoice details, communications, tasks, and disputes to provide end-to-end visibility.
Sailfin Credit Management App: Use AI-powered credit insights to monitor customer credit exposure, proactively mitigate, and establish more efficient and more rigorous credit processes.
Sailfin Cash Applications App: Accelerate cash applications through automated remittance processing and intelligent payment matching, while unlocking opportunities with guided analysis and AI-powered recommendations.
Missing Invoices: Protect your cash flow by identifying and acting on missing, failed or unsent invoices to prevent delays, disputes, and write-offs – while quantifying the P&L impact.
Intelligent Payment Reminders: De-silo and unify invoice data, and intelligently predict overdue payments, while ensuring accelerated collections with proactive, data-driven reminders.
Procurement Apps
Open PR Processing App: Eliminate process requisition pinch points by identifying and addressing stuck or incomplete PRs, while detecting contract leakage in real time to prevent unnecessary spend.
Payment Term Harmonizer App: Discover insights from combined transactional and master data to enhance negotiation strategies for payment terms with suppliers.
Record-to-Report, Internal Controls & Cross-Industry Apps and Solutions
GR/IR Reconciliation App: Use insights from PO, goods receipt and invoice receipt data to identify and resolve GR/IR discrepancies and mismatches.
Internal Controls Monitoring Framework App: With end-to-end visibility across business units, continuously monitor and enforce financial controls – detecting and addressing control violations – to support audit-readiness.
Tax Ray powered by KMLZ: Overcome the challenges of complex cross-border tax compliance by automating VAT error detection, resolution, and reporting.
Many of these solutions also can also be customized to meet your specific needs more closely – such as building your own dashboards or integrating KPIs in different views.
AI and enhanced capabilities
Unsurprisingly, advanced AI makes a lot of the magic happen within the Finance Solution Suite – consolidating, analyzing, and activating huge quantities of finance data to help optimize processes. AI is also a beneficiary of the data flowing through Process Intelligence Graph, in terms of training, governance guardrails, and real-time updates.
But now we’re in the age of agentic AI, offering a world of enhanced capabilities. Through Celonis’ AgentC – integrating with Microsoft Copilot Studio, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, and Amazon Bedrock Agents – users of the Suite can also build their own AI agents to create tailor-made copilot experiences. These can supercharge finance function effectiveness by automating workflows, improving forecasting, intelligently unblocking orders, and enhancing collaboration across functions, for example.
Full throttle for finance (and beyond)
Finance sits at the very core of the core four processes, the engine room of commercial success. The Finance Solution Suite gives you the all-in-one toolbox to squeeze every last bit of process performance out of that engine.
With Process Intelligence providing a live, harmonized layer of consolidated insights, end-to-end process understanding comes as standard. This single source of finance function truth also provides the ideal platform from which to maximize the impact of AI-driven optimizations. In short it gets you to greater value, faster.
As well as our Finance offering, we’ve created Solutions Suites for Supply Chain, Front Office, and Sustainability. To find out more, watch the full Celonis:Next 2025 on-demand video for a look at our latest innovations in Process Intelligence and AI.
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