{"id":9840,"date":"2021-07-13T18:51:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:01:40","slug":"raise-your-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/raise-your-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a finance heavyweight? Take our interactive quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"position: relative;width: auto;padding: 0 0 56.25%;height: 0;top: 0;left: 0;bottom: 0;right: 0;margin: 0;border: 0 none\" id=\"experience-622869bad9e41\" data-aspectratio=\"1.77777778\" data-mobile-aspectratio=\"0.83333333\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"\/\/view.ceros.com\/sage\/raise-your-game-4-1\" style=\"position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;bottom: 0;right: 0;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0 none;height: 100%;width: 100%\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"ceros-experience\" title=\"Raise Your Game \/ rebrand\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<noscript>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-test-your-financial-fitness\">Test your financial fitness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Get your financial performance in the best shape to drive business growth<br>Use our financial fitness calculator to find out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whether your communication, tech and data are up to the task.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to keep your finance function fighting fit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If your financial data and technology are holding you back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-is-your-finance-team-feeling-the-pressure\">Is your finance team feeling the pressure?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your finance team has enormous potential. The potential to add value to your business, to unlock vital insights that power high-speed decision making and to give you the business agility to pivot in the face of uncertainty.<br>At the same time, it\u2019s vital that your finance team works efficiently and doesn\u2019t miss a beat when it comes to maintaining control and compliance.<br>But often, instead of being free to focus on adding value, finance teams are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0Trapped by day-to-day processing and time-consuming month-end close cycles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tied up with manual processing and reporting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Struggling with lack of visibility across systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grappling with consolidating multiple entities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These challenges could be stopping your business benefitting from the insight finance has to offer. 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