Financial Analytics

Your ERP and your group planning platform tell two different stories. We build the one ledger between them.

A governed finance data platform for agency groups and project-based firms: one entity key, reconciliation that runs as a control on every load, and a working-capital layer on top. Built to SOX-grade audit standards from day one.

324Entities on one ledger
6 monthsTo production at reference scale
4 daysFaster monthly close
$57MCash released
Delivered for a global marketing communications group. The $57M was collected by an accounts receivable and work-in-progress programme that ran on the platform. Full story in the case study.
The situation

Does this sound familiar?

If two of these are true, the rest of this page is about you.

What we build

One ledger first. Then cash. Then AI.

The order is the reason it works. An AI layer over finance needs something solid underneath it, and that something is a governed ledger.

The Ledger

One entity key across your ERP and planning platform. Reconciliation runs automatically on every load, to a one-dollar tolerance. Every difference comes back as a flagged adjustment, so you see how much is out and where it came from.

The Cash

Live working capital on the governed layer: AR and AP ageing, DSO and DPO per entity, WIP ageing, a 13-week cash flow view. Questions that used to take weeks take minutes.

The AI layer

Natural-language querying over governed numbers, with lineage back to the posting. Automated variance commentary. Forecasting that has something solid to stand on, because the ledger is underneath it.

Deliverables

What you actually get

The platform One governed ledger

  • A single general ledger view. Every entity, one key, intercompany eliminations computed up the full hierarchy on every load.
  • Reconciliation as a control. A check that runs on every load and flags what does not tie, so the month end stops absorbing it.
  • Governed data layers. Bronze, silver and gold architecture, with automated catalogue and column-level lineage.

What it changes Evidence, trust and a roadmap

  • A SOX-grade audit trail. Evidence accumulates while the platform runs, so the audit stops being a project.
  • One number everywhere. The same figure in the dashboard, in the report that gets signed, and in Excel. Excel stays. What changes is where it reads from.
  • A use-case roadmap. A catalogue of 26 finance use cases on the governed layer, each with its own return. You pick the sequence.
Proof

Where these numbers come from

A global marketing communications group, 324 active legal entities, 207 of them billing through the ERP, inside a ten-level hierarchy, reconciled its ERP against its group planning platform by hand, in spreadsheets, every month. We built the bridge between the two systems in six months. The client name stays under NDA. The numbers on this page are cleared for publication, and a reference conversation can be arranged under NDA.

Before Reconciled by hand

  • Monthly full load: around 50 hours.
  • ERP to planning reconciliation: manual, monthly, in spreadsheets.
  • "Top ten clients by revenue": weeks of regional schedules.
  • Audit evidence: assembled per audit, as a project.
  • Data quality: discovered by users.

Now Reconciled as a control

  • Monthly full load: around 12 hours.
  • ERP to planning reconciliation: automatic on every load, to a one-dollar tolerance.
  • "Top ten clients by revenue": minutes, from one place.
  • Audit evidence: accumulates while the platform runs.
  • Data quality: daily automated checks across 80+ tables.
Engagement

How it works

  1. AssessmentTwo to three weeks, fixed price

    We map your systems, entity structure and close process. You get a fixed scope, a fixed price and a build plan.

  2. BuildSix months at reference scale

    The reference build at 324 entities took six months to production. Smaller landscapes move faster. Infrastructure as code, one deployment pipeline, documentation generated as a by-product of building.

  3. ExpandUse case by use case

    Once the ledger is governed, each use case from the catalogue is a small project carrying its own business case. You pick the sequence.

Pricing

What it costs

EUR 150k to 600kTypical engagement range

The range depends on entity count, number of source systems and the scope of the governed layer. Every engagement starts with a fixed-price assessment, so you know the number before you commit to the build.

Questions

Questions a CFO asks.

Fit and scope

We do not run the same ERP as your reference client. Does that matter?

No. The bridge pattern, a transactional system reconciled to a group planning platform on a shared entity key, is platform-independent.

We are much smaller than 324 entities. Does this scale down?

Yes. The architecture is the same for 20 entities as for 324. Timeline and cost shrink with the entity count.

What happens after the build?

You own the platform. The use-case catalogue becomes your roadmap, and each item is a small, separately justified project.

Risk, proof and delivery

What about data security?

Federated identity with no stored secrets, infrastructure as code, and an audit trail built in from day one.

Six months. Really?

Really. The short version: environments are created from code, every change ships through one pipeline, and documentation generates automatically. The long version is in the case study.

Can we speak to a reference?

Yes. A reference conversation can be arranged under NDA.

Next step

The bridge between your two systems takes months to build. The reference case took six.

Thirty minutes, your landscape on the table, and an honest read on what the bridge would take. Bring your ERP and your group planning platform, we will map the rest.

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