Transforming the Office of the CFO Together: Trintech & Workday 

In a recent interview with CFO.com, Workday CFO Zane Rowe shared his thoughts on what’s changing—and what isn’t—in the Office of the CFO (OCFO). As a Workday Innovation and Built-On Workday partner, Trintech shares a strong alignment with Rowe’s perspective. Together, Trintech and Workday are helping organizations embrace change and navigate the growing complexities of today’s financial landscape.  

Some Things Haven’t Changed for the OCFO 

Technology advancements have transformed the how of finance, but Rowe believes the why of the CFO role remains largely unchanged. At its core, the OCFO is still charged with creating and preserving value, fostering collaboration across departments, and engaging a wide range of stakeholders. The tools may be more advanced and the pace faster, but the mission endures. Market volatility—whether from economic shifts, geopolitical events, or industry disruptions—has always been a constant, requiring finance leaders to remain agile and focused on long-term stability. No matter how sophisticated technology becomes, the strategic mandate of the CFO to guide the business through uncertainty and drive sustainable value remains firmly in place. 

What Has Changed in the OCFO: Data & Technology 

The OCFO has always leveraged technology, but the landscape has shifted dramatically with the exponential growth of data. Today, advancements in data analytics and AI are transforming how finance teams operate—enabling more accurate forecasting, deeper insights, and more strategic decision-making. As Rowe noted in his interview, “What took years a decade ago now happens in months,” underscoring the accelerating pace of change driven by modern tools. Still, this rapid evolution only benefits those equipped to manage the deluge of data. For teams overwhelmed by manual processes and fragmented systems, the promise of technology remains out of reach. That’s why purpose-built solutions like Trintech are critical—they help finance teams organize and analyze data efficiently, generate timely insights, and ultimately make confident decisions that propel the business forward. 

Taming Data in Fast-Changing Industries 

Data complexity is an issue accounting and finance pros know well, but some industries face more complexity and change than others.  

Restaurants 

One example of the growing data complexity for organizations today is what’s happening in restaurants today with third-party delivery services.  

Trintech’s Chief Partner Office Mekaela Davis shared how we are helping tame this complexity in a recent video interview, “Think about the way that we order and deliver food today and all the different transactions that take place as part of that experience. It involves lots of different credit card receipts and handoffs… There’s a lot of data to reconcile.”  

This increase from external partners has created lots of headaches for accounting teams trying to manage the third-party reconciliation process. Davis continues, “That’s something we’ve always done, and through our partnership, we can easily ensure it flows back into their ERP system in Workday.”  

Financial Services 

Similarly, financial Institutions are also dealing with both an increasing amount of data in the form of P2P transactions via apps like Zelle, and strict security and compliance requirements that add to the complexity of their day-to-day. Trintech’s partnership with Workday allows us to help more institutions tame this complexity.  

In another recent interview, Davis shared insight on this shared key industry for both Trintech and Workday, “We have a lot of large financial services customers that have really unique requirements. They have a ton of transaction volume that they’re managing every day, every week, every month, every year. So, the ability for our systems to be able to handle that volume, but also to be able to talk to each other in a way that makes that experience sound for the end user and symbiotic is incredibly important.” 

These capabilities aren’t just hypothetical either. For example, Trintech customer Enova International reconciles approximately 75 million transactions a year—a feat no other technology provider could manage in a cost-effective way before they found Trintech. After more than 10 years of working together, Trintech’s partnership with Workday provides additional value to Enova.  

“Workday has served us well as our ERP. Their partnership with Trintech is a huge plus for data management and we’re excited to further integrate the systems to further optimize our financial processes.”

Trintech + Workday: Driving Ongoing Value 

Whether you’re a Workday customer looking for a financial close solution that can handle your organization’s growing complexity or a Trintech customer looking to invest in Workday Financials, just know that we’re all friends here. As Davis shared in an interview for Workday, “One of the great things about partnering with Workday is that we are both customer-centric and we care about the outcomes of our customers and their experience.” 

At Trintech, we are committed to ensuring that our investments and integrations with Workday deliver seamless, high-impact value for our customers. Caroline Mouton of Pan American Life Insurance captured this well, stating, “The relationship between Trintech and Workday is going to help make time count for our company because we won’t have to rebuild processes that we’ve almost perfected in the Trintech solution.” As we continue to deepen our collaboration with Workday, we look forward to hearing more success stories like this—helping finance teams accelerate transformation and elevate performance.