A financial close solution that makes your closing controls more reliable and faster
Move away from manual approaches and simplify your accounting reviews. Centralise data from your various ERP systems, harmonise your processes, and structure your work programmes. The result: a seamless, optimised close, aligned teams, and shorter timelines.
Structure, secure, and speed up your period-end closing controls
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Eliminate Inefficiencies
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Ensure data integrity
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Accelerate review activities
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Structure and unify process management
Take control of your close and steer your review activities
Streamline your accounting close with centralised, seamless, and well-governed processes to improve efficiency and accuracy:
- Manage the volume and completeness of your data, without manual back-and-forth between spreadsheets and ERP systems
- Standardise your objectives and control procedures
- Harmonise closing procedures between the group and its subsidiaries
- Centralise all review activities and documentation to ensure full traceability
- Monitor and manage your close with a clear, real-time view of progress
Ensure the integrity of your accounting data and reduce your financial risk exposure
Identify critical entries and strengthen your controls with AI-enhanced analysis for reliable, accurate data:
- Integrate and harmonise general ledger data, regardless of ERP systems, currencies, or charts of accounts
- Optimise your controls with AI-driven automated analyses: lead schedules, analytical reviews, control schedules, balance justifications, and anomaly detection
Accelerate your analysis and streamline your accounting review processes
Run a predictable, well-governed close with tighter management of your timelines and data:
- Fully customise your workflows with an adaptable core model
- Explore your data in depth with built-in drill-down to supporting documents, without leaving the platform
- Access a clear and optimised account reconciliation process, providing a structured view to simplify and streamline your teams’ work
- Reuse prior-period work and analyses to save time at every close
Structure your accounting close processes
Bring consistency and efficiency to your close with a centralised platform and collaborative workflows:
- Store, centralise, and archive your review workpapers along with all supporting documentation
- Improve collaboration by tracking progress at entity or group level
- Speed up your balance sheet review with intuitive drill-down to individual transactions, adding comments and annotations for clear follow-up
- Benefit from real-time visibility into bottlenecks and remaining tasks
- Plan controls precisely and adjust your close calendar for each period
Designed for seamless integration.
A clear platform, easy to adopt, tailored to your organisation, your teams, and your priorities.
Your Frequently Asked Questions about
accelerating period-end reviews and controls
1. How can you ensure reliable accounts without relying heavily on manual adjustments?
The reliability of accounts depends above all on the quality and consistency of source data. As long as closing controls rely on manual extractions and spreadsheets, error risk is built into the process. The challenge is to centralise general ledger data and automate recurring controls, so that reliability no longer depends on individual diligence but on a systematised process that works the same way at every close.
2. Where do the risks really lie in the closing process?
The risks are concentrated in manual period-end journal entries, persistent anomalies (long-outstanding unbalanced entries), and unexplained balance movements. They often remain invisible as long as the analysis stays superficial. A structured analytical review, combined with automated anomaly detection, makes it possible to pinpoint them rather than discovering them late, during the audit.
3. How can you maintain a complete, traceable, and centralised audit trail?
A usable audit trail requires every action, supporting document, and comment to be time-stamped, linked to an account, and accessible without manual reconstruction. In most organisations still working on spreadsheets, this traceability is partial or reconstructed after the fact, which undermines audit readiness and lengthens response times to auditors.
4. How can you make account reconciliations and balance justifications more reliable and easier to access?
Balance justifications are often the weak link in the closing process: scattered files, unsynchronised updates, attachments that are difficult to find. To be truly reliable, justifications must be structured, linked directly to general ledger data, and accessible at any time, not just reconstructed in a hurry for the audit.
5. How can you identify internal control deficiencies that could create group-level risk?
This risk is often underestimated because subsidiaries report data without the group being able to verify the quality of the underlying controls. Identifying entities at risk requires monitoring the execution of controls by subsidiary, not just consolidated balances. True visibility comes from seeing the work performed, not just the final numbers in the reporting package.
6. How can you spend less time extracting, reconciling, and reprocessing data, and more time on analysis?
In most finance departments, a significant share of closing time is spent on data handling (multi-ERP extractions, manual reconciliations, formatting, macros, etc.) before analysis can even begin. Reducing this rework means automating repetitive, low-value tasks and centralising data in an analysis-ready environment. The aim is to give teams back time for work that requires real judgement: interpreting variances, reviewing sensitive accounts, and business partnering with operational managers.
