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Fast-track operations with AI. By optimizing your office for data-driven decision making, you'll be running smoothly, giving your team back time for the work that matters most.

The finance department is vitally important in ensuring workflow efficiencies, reducing risk, and becoming a strategic partner to your business. UiPath offers AI-fueled, end-to-end robotic process automation (RPA) that enables finance-driven innovation. It reduces costs, processing times, and risk to increase both accuracy and your team’s capacity to focus on high-value, strategic work. 

Fast-track digital transformation with finance and accounting RPA

98%

of sales order workload can be shifted to robots

80%

faster reconciliation times

2x

greater transaction processing capacity

Turn finance and accounting bottlenecks into breakthroughs

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How AI-powered finance automation delivers transformative business value

Read this white paper to learn how RPA and artificial intelligence can uncover inefficiencies and opportunities for finance and accounting automation.

Top Automation Areas

Finance and accounting

Procure to Pay

Procure to pay

Faster, more efficient, straight-through processing 

Highly manual, repetitive tasks and disjointed application environments make for negative experiences. Improve your days payable outstanding (DPO) by accelerating invoice processing and transforming the supplier experience with faster onboarding and more streamlined communication. 

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  • Management procurement activities 

    Automate your activities, including purchasing and receiving goods and services, and integrate them with accounts payable to complete the purchase-to-pay cycle. By supplying all the documents necessary to process invoices both quickly and easily, you’ll reduce turnaround times for payment.  

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Measure performance 

    • Develop procurement strategy and process 

    • Manage supplier and vendor relationships 

  • Purchase goods and services 

    The efficiency of the purchase-to-pay (P2P) process affects satisfaction rates, costs, and influences your company’s ability to achieve wider business goals. And it touches nearly every department. The wide-reaching nature of the process means there is a huge incentive for companies to optimize it.  

    By automating P2P, you’ll experience better supplier collaboration, employee satisfaction, productivity, profitability, and improved supplier relationships. Robots make the P2P cycle faster and more reliable, keeping suppliers happy and lowering your risk. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Create and submit requisitions  

    • Create purchase orders  

    • Submit purchase orders to vendors  

    • Manage requisition approvals  

    • Manage purchase order approvals 

  • Receive goods and services  

    Receiving goods and services is an important process to confirm that goods or services purchased have been received or completed following a purchase agreement or purchase order. This confirmation is then used to support the 3-way invoice matching process to authorize payment to the vendor. 

    Robotic automation can improve and expedite the goods receipt (GR) process by digitizing and automating GR tasks. This improves inventory level accuracy, provides accurate information to finance to support 3-way invoice matching, and authorizes payment efficiently. This helps maximize early payment discounts or timely payments, resulting in improved supplier relationships. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Process receipts  

    • Receive goods and services  

    • Manage discrepancies and returns  

    • Manage inventory

  • Process invoices

    Improve invoice processing accuracy by using automation combined with AI (UiPath Document Understanding) to reengineer workflows, digitizing invoice collection, validation, and storage. Our robots extract, interpret, and process data for you, even from PDFs, images, handwriting, and scans, reducing turnaround times and freeing up time spent on highly manual tasks. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Manual invoice collection, digitalization, and storage  

    • Process electronic invoicing  

    • Validate and handle invoice data  

    • Submit transactions for processing  

    • Manage matching discrepancies 

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  • Process payment

    With Document Understanding, robots read invoices that have been processed and are ready for payment, digitizing your payment processing procedures. With the addition of AI and machine learning (ML), you’ll run them smoothly. Handle payment reconciliations and manage any exceptions that may pop up along the way.    

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Run payment process  

    • Complete initial payment review  

    • Handle payment reconciliations  

    • Manage payment exceptions 

  • Generate reports 

    Deliver a wide range of deep analytics and high-powered reporting to both optimize and automate a very important aspect of your business.    

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Generate standard reports  

    • Distribute and manage reports  

    • Develop reporting process and policies  

    • Generate ad-hoc reports 

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Management procurement activities 

Automate your activities, including purchasing and receiving goods and services, and integrate them with accounts payable to complete the purchase-to-pay cycle. By supplying all the documents necessary to process invoices both quickly and easily, you’ll reduce turnaround times for payment.  

Ask us about these business use cases: 

  • Measure performance 

  • Develop procurement strategy and process 

  • Manage supplier and vendor relationships 

Order to Cash

Order to cash  

Delight customers and realize revenue faster

Create the ultimate customer experience and reduce days sales outstanding (DSO) by empowering collaboration, controlling costs, and maximizing cashflow. Increase operating leverage by digitizing data input, automating sales order entry and billing processes, increasing productivity, and reducing any billing errors to zero.  

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  • Customer onboarding  

    Automate tedious, manual finance processes like onboarding and help your new customers with manual tasks by getting them set up in your system. Our robots help fuel your growth by reviewing and accepting applications, managing terms and conditions, contracts, and even negotiating pricing for you.  

    Each task can involve a standalone system that doesn’t necessarily play well with the others, and automation can help. Turn them into smoothly running processes by extracting information from one and entering it into another. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Create and update product master  

    • Set up customer in system(s)  

    • Manage customer master data  

    • Create and manage reports  

    • Review and accept customer applications  

    • Manage terms and conditions  

    • Negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions  

    • Manage customer contracts 

  • Access and manage credit  

    Accessing and managing credit is a crucial, time-consuming aspect of your business, and it needs to run smoothly. Utilize business automation to help you develop reports, conduct assessments, and perform credit checks. Streamline these processes, all while making sure you’re getting paid on time.  

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Establish credit and risk strategy, process, and policies  

    • Develop and manage reports  

    • Conduct new customer credit assessment  

    • Perform credit checks 

  • Manage quote to order    

    Manage customized quotes efficiently with automation. By introducing AI-powered technology into the process, finance teams ensure customers receive accurate quotes, orders are fulfilled correctly, and any issues are resolved seamlessly. Not only will this boost customer satisfaction—it could lead to increased sales and revenue for your organization, too.   

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Identify, manage, and qualify leads  

    • Create and manage customer orders  

    • Create initial sales quote  

    • Create and manage reports  

    • Prioritize opportunities  

    • Approve pricing, discounts, and promotions  

    • Negotiate and finalize sale 

  • Process and fulfill order  

    There are many steps that go into fulfilling a customer’s order, and any break in the process can mean the difference between a happy customer—or an unhappy one. Let our innovative automation platform help you manage your inventory, returns, and reporting by digitizing the entire order management process, increasing your productivity.  

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Process order  

    • Manage shipping and inventory  

    • Process returns and exchanges  

    • Create and manage reports  

    • Manage rebates and chargebacks  

    • Create order management, strategy, process, and policy  

    • Manage orders  

  • Invoice customers   

    When it comes to invoicing your customers, there are a lot of manual steps involved. Generating the invoice, validating it before it goes out, posting receivables, and reporting—the list goes on and on. Utilize RPA and remove the manual work with your invoicing processes and procedures and experience 3x increased productivity.  

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Generate invoices  

    • Invoice validation and distribution  

    • Post receivables to general ledger 

    • Create and manage reports  

    • Create invoicing process and policies 

  • Process A/R and collections  

    From the moment an invoice is created to when it’s settled, there can be lots of hiccups when manual work is involved. Let our technology find the untapped automation potential in your processes. We'll assist you with processing cash, managing debts, and help with your accounts receivable (A/R) and collections strategy and policy to reduce overdue payments and DSO.

    Software robots perform tasks such as collecting bank statements and entering critical financial data into the A/R system. We can also streamline the matching of your payments to open invoices. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Process cash applications against open invoices  

    • Prepare aging and bad debt analysis  

    • Create and manage reports  

    • Manage customer collections  

    • Develop A/R and collections strategy, process, and policy 

    • Issue statements

  • Manage cash  

    Managing your company’s cashflow is a necessity and is even better with data-driven decision making. Effective management involves reviewing the cash you have on hand, reporting, reconciling and reporting cash, and monitoring its performance.  

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Prepare and review daily cash  

    • Perform balance reporting  

    • Collect bank reconciliations  

    • Create and manage reports  

    • Monitor banking performance 

  • Process customer inquiries and complaints    

    Before businesses will introduce automation, some look to other solutions to help revamp processes. The UiPath process mining solution provides insights on how the order to cash (O2C) process is performing and gives you the opportunity to verify the root cause of any issues. When combined with RPA, it leads to huge leaps in efficiency, cost savings, and overall customer satisfaction.   

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Develop cash management strategy, process, and policies  

    • Develop service strategy, process, and policies  

    • Process inquiries  

    • Review customer complaints 

    • Communicate resolution to customer 

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Customer onboarding  

Automate tedious, manual finance processes like onboarding and help your new customers with manual tasks by getting them set up in your system. Our robots help fuel your growth by reviewing and accepting applications, managing terms and conditions, contracts, and even negotiating pricing for you.  

Each task can involve a standalone system that doesn’t necessarily play well with the others, and automation can help. Turn them into smoothly running processes by extracting information from one and entering it into another. 

Ask us about these business use cases: 

  • Create and update product master  

  • Set up customer in system(s)  

  • Manage customer master data  

  • Create and manage reports  

  • Review and accept customer applications  

  • Manage terms and conditions  

  • Negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions  

  • Manage customer contracts 

Record to Report 

Record to report 

Innovative reporting done right  

Produce timely and accurate business reporting, both internally and externally, to drive growth with a more engaged accounting team. Automate complex journal entries, the extraction of monthly reports, and reduce processing times for disclosure. 

  • Planning and management accounting  

    Let our automation platform take over repetitive accounting tasks and change the game for your business so you can empower your team of experts to take on more strategic work. Software robots fill the gaps in a patchwork of disparate systems and remove the manual work of integrating data from multiple sources. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Perform planning/budgeting/forecasting  

    • Perform cost accounting and control  

    • Perform cost management  

    • Evaluate and manage financial performance 

  • General accounting and reporting  

    Use AI-powered automation to implement innovative accounting practices, take over cumbersome reporting functions, and manage your business’s policies and procedures. Decision makers get perspective to make quick decisions on budgets, forecasts, strategies, and governance.  

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Perform general accounting  

    • Perform fixed asset accounting  

    • Perform financial reporting  

    • Manage GA policies and procedures 

  • Fixed asset project accounting  

    Digitize tasks related to capital planning, project accounting, and get your projects approved faster, too. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Perform capital planning and project approval  

    • Perform capital project accounting 

  • Payroll accounting  

    Utilize robots to report time and create and post payroll for your biggest asset—your employees. 

      Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Report time   

    • Creation and posting of payroll into general ledger 

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Planning and management accounting  

Let our automation platform take over repetitive accounting tasks and change the game for your business so you can empower your team of experts to take on more strategic work. Software robots fill the gaps in a patchwork of disparate systems and remove the manual work of integrating data from multiple sources. 

Ask us about these business use cases: 

  • Perform planning/budgeting/forecasting  

  • Perform cost accounting and control  

  • Perform cost management  

  • Evaluate and manage financial performance 

Treasury

Treasury 

Optimize liquidities and cash-forecast reliability  

Empower treasury analysts to identify investment opportunities with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence, and decrease uninvested cash by improving cash-forecast reliability. Digitize reconciliation processes, eliminate errors from workflows, and automate data extraction, freeing up analyst time to focus on more strategic work. 

  • Manage treasury processes and procedures 

    Administering treasury procedures is an essential part of your business's financial management. This function not only handles your company's cashflow and financial assets, but also ensures it has sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations.  

    Introduce automation and transform your processes into smarter ones to help establish your scope, helping mitigate risk. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Establish scope and governance of treasury operations  

    • Establish and publish treasury policies  

    • Develop, monitor, audit, and revise treasury procedures 

    • Develop and confirm internal controls for treasury  

    • Define system security requirements 

  • Manage cash 

    Managing cash is essential to the financial health of your company, and digitizing the processes within it can help it run more smoothly. Effective administration requires tracking and analyzing cashflow, forecasting, and implementing techniques and strategies. This ensures you have enough cash on hand to meet your financial obligations. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Produce cash management account transactions and reports 

    • Download bank statements and reconcile cash positions 

    • Preparation of cash equivalents report 

    • Process and oversee electronic fund transfers 

    • Develop cash flow forecasts 

    • Manage and oversee banking relationships 

    • Analyze, negotiate, resolve, and confirm bank fees

  • Manage in-house bank accounts 

    Overseeing in-house bank accounts is an important function within the treasury department of your company (not to mention a great use case for RPA and AI). In-house banking involves centralizing cash management activities within your company by merging cashflows from different subsidiaries or business units. This helps improve visibility over your cash position and simplifies cash management practices. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Manage in-house bank accounts for subsidiaries  

    • Manage central incoming payments on behalf of subsidiaries 

    • Manage internal payments and net transactions  

    • Calculate interest and fees for in-house bank accounts  

    • Provide account statements for in-house bank accounts  

    • Manage and facilitate inter-company loan transactions  

    • Manage central outgoing payments on behalf of subsidiaries 

  • Manage debt and investments   

    Managing debt and investments are important aspects of financial administration and involve the strategic supervision of an organization's financial resources. Effective treasury management (particularly with the addition of business automation and AI) helps your company maximize liquidity and enhances your financial performance. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Manage liquidity  

    • Manage issuer exposure  

    • Process and oversee debt and investment transactions  

    • Process and oversee foreign currency transactions  

    • Produce debt and investment account transaction reports  

    • Process and oversee interest rate transactions  

    • Manage financial intermediary relationships

  • Manage risk and hedging strategies

    One key aspect of risk management is monitoring interest rates. Interest rates have a significant impact on your risk strategy and financial performance. By deploying AI-powered technology and bots to oversee changes in rates, you'll stay ahead of the game, minimizing risk. 

    Ask us about these business use cases: 

    • Execute hedging transactions 

    • Produce hedge account transactions and reports 

    • Manage interest rate risk 

    • Manage foreign exchange risk 

    • Manage exposure risk 

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Manage treasury processes and procedures 

Administering treasury procedures is an essential part of your business's financial management. This function not only handles your company's cashflow and financial assets, but also ensures it has sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations.  

Introduce automation and transform your processes into smarter ones to help establish your scope, helping mitigate risk. 

Ask us about these business use cases: 

  • Establish scope and governance of treasury operations  

  • Establish and publish treasury policies  

  • Develop, monitor, audit, and revise treasury procedures 

  • Develop and confirm internal controls for treasury  

  • Define system security requirements 

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Hear from your peers who have already automated

Learn how RPA has automated repetitive, error-prone tasks and brought benefits to finance and accounting users in this PeerPaper™ Report Realizing the Benefits of RPA in Finance and Accounting.

Automate your finance and accounting department end-to-end

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Seamless data extraction

Software robots can read screens, navigate interfaces, and pull information from scanned documents—faster and more accurately than their human colleagues.

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Drag-and-drop artificial intelligence (AI)

With AI, software robots can emulate aspects of human decision making to streamline a wider range of financial and accounting processes. 

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Unstructured data analysis

Data from different sources in different formats? Software robots can find the needed information and do what needs to be done.

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Task/process mining

Which finance and accounting practices are the best candidates for automation? You don’t have to rely on intuition and educated guesses. UiPath Task Mining and Process Mining can help you discover your best opportunities.

Reinvent the business, not the wheel

Our prebuilt automations and ready-to-go connectors can give you a head start on a more innovative future for finance and accounting.  

Stop pushing paper and start driving real change

Transform finance and accounting into real business value. We’ll show you how.