What Is Gartner for Finance?

Insights, guidance and tools to enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on your mission-critical finance priorities

How we support your priorities

Assess Your Current State

Benchmark against peers and diagnose improvement areas to allocate and prioritize resources.

Develop Your Strategic Plan

Make informed decisions and gain C-suite buy-in with expert guidance, objective research and lessons from peers.

Execute and Drive Change

Save time and deliver measurable results by using proven tools, templates and peer examples.

Stay Ahead of the Curve

Keep up to date with the latest trends and what peers are doing with must-attend events and peer connections.

View sample engagement plans

Each sample engagement plan shows how a mix of peer connections, expert guidance, tools and events will help you put insight into action.
Sample Plan

Enable finance technology decisions

Sample Plan

Support FP&A processes

What’s included

  • Expert Guidance
  • Decision Tools
  • Must-Attend Events
  • Peer Connections

Gartner’s global finance experts and Executive Partners (former CFOs) advise finance leaders every day on their mission-critical priorities. Tap into their expertise through one-on-one advisory conversations, on-demand research on the client portal and team strategy meetings.

Gartner conferences and other events cover today’s key issues and emerging trends. Learn from experts, get inspired by thought leaders, discover technology solutions and connect with peers to share ideas, lessons learned and best practices.

Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference

31 May – 1 June 2023 | National Harbor, MD

Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference

18 – 19 September 2023 | London, U.K.

Finance Webinars

Live and on-demand virtual events featuring Gartner’s finance experts and peer best practices.

Get access to a community of industry leaders who have the right experience to help. Join Gartner Peer Community™ for insights, advice and guidance to drive technology and business decisions.

What are the benefits?

Direct Cost Savings

We review your finance technology contracts with deep understanding of providers, terms and pricing to uncover risks and cost savings.

Decision Speed

On average, organizations take eight to nine months to make decisions. We reduce that decision time frame by 30% to 60% with our trusted insights.

Budget Justification

Secure funding for key initiatives and staff by using benchmarks tailored for your organization.

Execution Speed

Use customizable tools and templates to speed execution of your key initiatives and deliver faster results.

Risk Mitigation

Use real-time visibility into evolving approaches, lessons learned and data from peer companies.
 

Extension of Your Staff

Our finance experts and insights can help you tackle your priorities across the year.

How Gartner clients have achieved success

  • SpotHero
  • The Standard
  • Canada School of Public Service

SpotHero

Software
$30 Million Revenue
Varvara Alva
CFO
  • Identified competency gaps by comparing the finance function’s digital maturity to peer organizations
  • Developed a digital finance roadmap for closing SpotHero’s competency gaps and advancing the function's overall digital maturity
  • Established KPIs for measuring the function’s progress to goal

The Standard

Insurance
$2.8 Billion Revenue
Karin Holsinger
Senior Director, Corporate Finance & Accounting
  • Defined an actionable finance function strategy that combined best practices from other organizations while focusing on The Standard’s unique priorities
  • Maximized the value of their outsourcing processes by creating an outsourcing strategy within the strategic plan
  • Built a digital finance strategy into The Standard's existing strategic plan using Gartner’s Finance Digital Score

Canada School of Public Service

Education
$96 Million Revenue
Tom Roberts
CFO
  • Determined a best-fit robotics process automation (RPA) strategy by evaluating common benefits and pitfalls of RPA choices
  • Implemented two full RPA processes, with plans to add five to six additional RPA processes with Gartner’s continued support

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities