In the context of increased economic globalisation,rapid development of information technology and increasingly complex group control,the traditional financial management model has brought about problems such as a bloated organisational structure and increased management costs.As a result,many foreign conglomerates have begun to explore new financial management models,and the financial shared services model has been widely used.Subsequently,large enterprise groups in China also started to actively participate in the change of financial management model,establishing financial shared service centres to achieve the purpose of reducing costs and increasing efficiency,enhancing control and standardising business processes.However,most of the current financial shared service centres have not yet achieved their maximum value in terms of centralised financial accounting,so the application of financial shared service centres still needs to be continuously improved and optimised.The research methods used in this paper are literature analysis,case study analysis,comparative analysis and interview method.The theory of economy of scale,process re-engineering theory,flat organisation theory and collaborative management theory are used as the theoretical basis of this paper,and the financial shared service centre of Company A is taken as the case study object.By comparing and analysing the relevant data of the company from 2015 to 2021,the implementation effects were understood in terms of operating costs,operational efficiency,process management and internal control,and the existing problems of the financial shared service centre were analysed in terms of information systems,personnel management and business and three aspects,as well as the reasons for these problems.The study found that Company A’s financial shared service centre mainly suffers from inadequate staff professionalism,high staff turnover,internal and external business processes that have not yet been fully standardised,and information system functional modules that have not been fully developed.In order to solve the problems in Company A’s financial shared service centre,this paper proposes specific optimisation measures at three levels: information systems,personnel management and business processes.The study and analysis concluded that Company A’s financial shared service centre has achieved the primary objective of reducing costs and increasing efficiency since its construction in 2018.To ensure that the financial shared service centre can be continuously optimised,it needs to gradually develop an information system with more complete functional modules and establish a long-term mechanism for process optimisation to gradually develop into a mature financial shared service centre. |