📶 Market map: Condensing the finance department

We have officially entered into the “efficiency era”, and revenue-per-employee is rapidly becoming the defining metric for venture-backed businesses.

As this trend plays out, the finance department will be one of the first departments to start consolidating roles into functions. CFOs and their team are turning to usage-based software and AI to condense traditional roles, streamline processes, and create more output with less headcount.

This market map shares more on how we see this trend playing out, the current opportunities within each role in the department, and what will create the winners of this category.

Let’s get into it.

What’s inside

• Tools to automate the majority of your bookkeeping

• AI-first tax and compliance solutions

• How to never worry about AR / AP again

• Budgeting and forecasting tools to make better financial decisions

• Other CFO tooling

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