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What are the risks surrounding Financial System Implementation?

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Question added by Abdullah Mahhaden, CFA, CPA , Assurance Manager , Grant Thornton
Date Posted: 2013/06/16
Shahbaz Hayder
by Shahbaz Hayder , Group Head of Finance , Sharif Group of Companies

Risks are:

 

Lack of Management Support

Resistance to Change by the end users

Heavy burden of acquisition and implementation cost for small businesses

Wrong assessment of users’ requirements by the consultants

Selection of wrong application system

Difficult to customize

No control on source data

Time overrun and Cost overrun

Desired output not available

Lack of security controls

Technology obsolescence

Lack of trained users

ABU SAIF MOHAMMAD MAHIN, PMP
by ABU SAIF MOHAMMAD MAHIN, PMP , Head of Design and Production Engineering, Financials Solutions , Southtech Limited

There are many risks in the Financial System Implementation which can be summarized as follows:

Application complexity,  Lack of user experience,  Lack of role definitions of individuals on the project, The lack of alignment between the organization strategy, structure, and processes and the chosen financial application,   Within the project, the loss of control over the project (over the project team and over the employees once the system is implemented),  Another major risk is project complexity as it involves relatively large expenditure for acquisition hardware, software, implementation costs, consulting fees, training cost and can last for an extended period of time. It has a wider scope and may causes a significant number of changes within the organization, Lack of in house skill is another source of risk

Basil Al-Hasan
by Basil Al-Hasan , Information Technology Project Manager (InJo 4.0 Project Technical Supervisor) , Amman Chamber of Industry

I think the most critical risk in financial systems is misunderstanding the business, there were many cases in which the systems failed due the misunderstanding of the user requirements in terms of business procedures and how to deal with payments, taxes or refunds for example.

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