Elevating global business services for KONE

KONE had already been on a long journey toward shared services transformation and was ready to transition to a global business services operating model. Under its new leadership, KONE renewed its strategic goals of driving superior experience for its employees and customers while thriving in today's volatile business environment. It was time to move away from focusing on transactional efficiency to allowing business needs and customer requirements to drive decisions. To fix the disconnection across end-to-end business processes, KONE worked with Genpact to help deliver this outcomes-focused F&A overhaul.

Our F&A experts and KONE worked together to identify what needed to change. A decentralized operating model, inconsistent scopes, different regional business requirements, a lack of visibility into processes, and unclear ownership of roles were undermining how well-shared services could support KONE's goals of ease, efficiency, and high-quality experiences.

We knew we needed a new approach for shared services. After an initial consultation phase, we reorganized our delivery team to align with KONE's expectations and priorities. Working together, we brought in nearly 50 stakeholders to develop a clear vision for KBS. Armed with these insights, we designed a new operating model and realigned processes, roles, and ways of working – all built on a strong foundation of data, technology, and analytics.

Together, we built a team of strategists and process experts to speed up the go-live date to better support the company's business units. We helped KONE establish four centers of competence – quality, data and automation, project management, and people and communication – to help standardize best practices across all F&A operations. These centers also helped the company define what success looks like for KONE.

We also established a center of excellence to accelerate KONE's automation journey to build reliable operations, drive harmonization, improve end-to-end metrics, and automate three key processes: R2R, S2C, and S2P.

The scale of these changes meant changing mindsets as well as processes. So we shared a steady stream of early and visible successes to help bring stakeholders along.

At the heart of KONE's transformation lies a committed leadership team supported by a strong partnership with Genpact. With an end-to-end focus on processes, governance, and captive and outsourced shared services joining forces, it now has a one-stop shop for F&A operations, ensuring seamless integration with KONE's core businesses. Automation and standardization have freed up approximately 40% of full-time employees for more customer-focused tasks and improved the employee and supplier experience. Thanks to a more resilient operating model, the company's balance sheet is more stable, meaning it can make faster, more accurate business decisions to drive harmonization and bottom-line impact.

And key metrics like paid on time, invoicing efficiency, queries per invoice, and unallocated cash have improved.

Today, our collaboration is getting noticed beyond the walls of KONE. The company won a Shared Services Outsourcing Network award for business transformation. What's next? Together, we're exploring the opportunities from AI-powered solutions to bring even greater resilience and ability to finance, making it truly fit for the future.