5 customisable OKR examples for Financial Controller
What are Financial Controller OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Financial Controller to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Financial Controller OKRs with AI
While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.
Our customisable Financial Controller OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Financial Controller Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to prepare a perfect and precise financial statement
Prepare a perfect and precise financial statement
Implement a double-verification system for transaction recording by the end of the quarter
Identify suitable double-verification technology options- Roll out double-verification system
- Develop implementation and training plan
- Achieve 100% on-time internal financial reporting with no errors for three consecutive months
- Automate reports using reliable financial software
- Train staff on accurate and timely data input
- Implement a rigorous financial data review process
- Ensure 0% discrepancies in monthly intra-department financial audits throughout the quarter
- Implement stringent checks on each financial transaction
- Regularly review internal audit processes
- Provide comprehensive training on accurate reporting
2. OKRs to ensure completion of all account schedules and bank reconciliations
- Ensure completion of all account schedules and bank reconciliations
- Successfully complete and document all minor accounts' reconciliation by week 6
- Reconcile discrepancies found in all reviewed accounts
- Review all minor accounts for outstanding discrepancies
- Document results of reconciliation for all accounts
- Implement a new system to track bi-weekly progress of bank reconciliations
- Train staff on using the new system
- Identify suitable software for tracking reconciliation progress
- Initiate regular bi-weekly update meetings
- Initiate and finish 100% reconciliation of 10 major accounts within first 4 weeks
- Begin reconciling the discrepancies for each account
- Identify the 10 major accounts requiring reconciliation
- Complete reconciliation process for all accounts
3. OKRs to successfully transition majority of vendors to ACH payments
- Successfully transition majority of vendors to ACH payments
- Identify and prioritize upper 50% of vendors for ACH conversion by week 3
- Compile a list of all vendors currently in payment rotation
- Allocate priority for ACH conversion to top 50% vendors
- Categorize vendors based on payment volume
- Achieve a 50% conversion rate amongst identified vendors by week 6
- Develop a compelling presentation for vendor benefits
- Schedule and conduct effective vendor meetings
- Follow up regularly with targeted vendors
- Verify and establish ACH payment method for an additional 30% of vendors by week 9
- Contact vendors to gather ACH setup information
- Identify vendors not set up with ACH payments
- Input vendor information to establish ACH
4. OKRs to lower unvalued inventory by 10%
- Lower unvalued inventory by 10%
- Implement disposal or revaluation strategy for 50% of identified items
- Evaluate current market value for selected items
- Identify potential buyers or recyclers for 50% of identified items
- Initiate negotiations or disposal process
- Identify top 20% of unvalued items within two weeks
- Rank items based on set criteria
- Establish criteria for determining item value
- Assess inventory for potential unvalued items
- Achieve 5% reduction in unvalued inventory every month
- Increase sales promotions to eliminate unvalued inventory
- Conduct regular audits to identify obsolete inventory
- Implement a better management system for stock levels
5. OKRs to implement regulatory compliance changes effectively
- Implement regulatory compliance changes effectively
- Complete implementation of all required changes on time
- Monitor progress regularly, adjust plan as needed
- Prioritize necessary changes based on importance and difficulty
- Develop a detailed, daily work schedule
- Stay within 10% below the allocated budget
- Maintain regular communication regarding spending with your team
- Implement cost-saving measures where feasible
- Review all expenditures weekly to monitor cash flow
- Reduce non-compliance incidents by 50%
- Implement comprehensive compliance training for all staff members
- Proactively monitor and audit compliance activities
- Regularly review and update compliance policies
Financial Controller OKR best practices to boost success
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRsTip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparencyTip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
How to turn your Financial Controller OKRs in a strategy map
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRsIf you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More Financial Controller OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to develop an extensive asset library for product and merchandise designs
- OKRs to enhance proficiency in automation tools and methods
- OKRs to optimize ManageEngine for efficient patching and software deployment
- OKRs to overhaul and digitize the current Chemical list
- OKRs to boost sales performance significantly
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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