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Graduate to Peak Performance with a Single, Unified Platform

With uncertainty taking center stage, it’s time to graduate to peak performance with a smarter, unified approach. Sharp price increases, painful market fluctuations, and unpredictable tariffs can wreak havoc on business operations and undermine financial stability. A single, unified platform combines comprehensive visibility and real-time, reliable decision-making insights with robust risk management scenario planning, leading to a competitive advantage.

Maintaining full control over liquidity is crucial for financial leaders to respond quickly, preserve stability, and enhance strategic agility. Relying on fragmented systems and manual workflows limits accuracy, clouds strategic planning, and disrupts decision-making. Graduating to an all-in-one platform consolidates all critical data in a liquidity ecosystem with consistency and clarity, allowing for seamless cash flow monitoring and optimization of working capital.

By adopting a unified platform enriched with liquidity solutions, financial leaders can overcome inefficiencies, gain clear insight, and unlock their organization’s full financial potential. Thomas Gavaghan, Kyriba’s SVP of Product Solutions and Strategy, explains, “One of the key priorities for corporates is gaining and ensuring complete visibility of liquidity, so they know where it is, what they have, what they don't have, and what resources they can tap into. Achieving this goal necessitates centralizing the information in one accessible location to ensure it isn't scattered across different spreadsheets owned by various managers. Integrating company data into a single source of truth captures the entire ecosystem of relevant data, driving liquidity performance with faster and better decisions–no matter the market.”

Harness the Power of a Single Platform for Liquidity Solutions

A single, unified platform offers significant benefits to transform financial challenges into strategic advantages. A single source of truth equips financial leaders with the liquidity solutions they need to connect, protect, forecast, and optimize with excellence:

  • Connect all financial data into a centralized hub to break down data silos and provide complete integrity and visibility. Connectivity enhances decision-making and efficiency by ensuring accurate, seamless, and up-to-date data flows across internal and external sources.

  • Protect your organization with robust risk management and fraud prevention strategies to secure financial resources against economic volatility and operational risk. Protection improves compliance and security while increasing stability and predictability.

  • Forecast to elevate cash flow management and strengthen financial planning with accurate cash flow projections and actionable insights for informed decision-making. For strategic planning, leverage advanced analytics and AI-driven tools for precise predictions and scenario modeling.

  • Optimize liquidity to manage key aspects of working capital more effectively, maximizing returns, accelerating cash flow, and enhancing operational efficiency. Optimization supports strategic growth and provides the flexibility to seize opportunities in an uncertain economic landscape.

By leveraging a single platform, financial leaders can unlock the full potential of liquidity, driving innovation and fostering resilience in an increasingly dynamic market environment.

Warner Bros. Discovery Seamlessly Integrates
2,000 Accounts, 100 Banks, and 5 ERP Systems

The merger of Warner Bros. Discovery provided an opportunity to overhaul treasury functions, leveraging Kyriba’s Liquidity Performance Platform to achieve remarkable efficiency and productivity gains. The treasury transformation was necessitated by a 2022 merger which expanded Warner Bros. Discovery’s financial infrastructure from 300 bank accounts across 25 banks to over 2,000 accounts across 100 banks and five ERP systems. The transformation aimed to address the complexity of merging disparate systems, with a focus on centralizing and automating liquidity, payments, and risk management.

A key aspect of this treasury evolution was the integration of Kyriba’s single, flexible platform, which enabled seamless data flow and improved cash visibility—a critical challenge given the vast network of bank accounts and systems. Kyriba's interconnected modules facilitated a centralized data flow for bank statements into Kyriba’s cash module, enhancing both cash accounting and forecasting capabilities. This integration not only reduced manual interventions but also allowed for real-time insights into financial operations, supporting Warner Bros. Discovery's goal of streamlining processes and increasing efficiency.

Steps to Transition to a Unified Platform

Transitioning to a unified platform for liquidity performance is a strategic move that can transform financial operations. Here are the steps to guide this transition:

  1. Assess current systems and data flows by evaluating existing infrastructure and identifying how data currently flows (or doesn’t flow) between different systems.

  2. Define objectives and requirements by setting clear goals and identifying key metrics.

  3. Choose the right technology platform by opting for a solution that offers real-time connectivity, a robust format library, open API integration, advanced analytics capabilities, and scalability.

  4. Implement cloud-based platforms and APIs to standardize processes and ensure secure integration with banks and ERP systems.

  5. Centralize data for comprehensive visibility and leverage AI tools for actionable insights and strategic planning.

By following these steps, organizations can effectively transition to an all-in-one platform, enhancing financial visibility, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing overall financial performance.

The Kyriba Effect on Liquidity Performance
and the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC)

Kyriba customers achieve a competitive advantage leveraging liquidity performance solutions in particular tied to a key KPI, the cash conversion cycle (CCC). Leveraging an unbiased liquidity metric derived from publicly available financial data, Kyriba studied 1,089 corporations with a minimum $1B of revenue; 227 of these companies are Kyriba customers in various industries. This analysis demonstrates a clear advantage for these customers: liquidity access improved by an average of 15%, equating to $24.3 million per $1 billion in annual revenue compared to their peers. This exceptional performance is driven by Kyriba’s Liquidity Performance Platform, which integrates advanced tools such as cash forecasting, liquidity planning, and working capital management. These capabilities enable treasury professionals to connect, protect, forecast, and optimize liquidity, fostering precision and enhancing agility in financial strategy.

Kyriba customers also boast a competitive edge in optimizing the CCC, a critical metric reflecting a company’s ability to convert revenue into cash efficiently. As of December 2024, Kyriba customers were able to accelerate conversion to cash by up to 5.3 days more quickly than their peers, an additional $11.1M per billion accelerated cash flow. This acceleration enables opportunities to better manage cash for optimal yield which improves margins and net income. With Kyriba’s advanced solutions, customers can systematically and reliably manage key aspects of the CCC to see, forecast, and optimize their liquidity. As a result, Kyriba customers can focus on improving yield on cash, reducing interest expenses, and self-fund their growth opportunities at a much faster and efficient pace than their peers.

Oh, the Places You’ll Go: Graduating to Advanced Liquidity Solutions

Graduating to a single, unified platform represents a significant strategic advantage for treasury management. The future lies in platforms that connect, protect, forecast, and optimize liquidity to ensure financial leaders can navigate uncertainties with agility and confidence. By adopting an all-in-one platform, organizations can transform their liquidity management from a reactive process into a proactive strategy that supports business success.

Implementing a Liquidity Performance Platform equips financial leaders with a centralized hub for all critical financial data, enabling consistency, clarity, and purposeful decision-making. This shift not only addresses current operational challenges but also prepares businesses for future demands, ensuring competitiveness and adaptability in a rapidly changing market. The strategic advantages of enhanced visibility, robust risk management, and precise forecasting empower organizations to leverage liquidity solutions for growth and resilience. Move beyond fragmented systems and take the first step toward peak financial performance today.


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