中翻译英：“以便我们向客户的财务部门了解付款的情况”

这在英文中算是半句话：

“……in order that (so as to) we can get the payment information from the financial department of our customer(s)看是一个还是多个客户”

So that we can learn about the situation of the payment from the financial department of our customer.

to facilitate our understanding of the payment from customer's financial department...
汉语半句话，英语也来半句，呵呵。

as if we can know the situation of the payment of our clients

So that we can to the customer's understanding of the financial sector payment