An ERP implementation touches almost every part of Finance. Your chart of accounts. Your transaction flows. Your controls. Your reporting. Your close. Your data. And ultimately, how your finance team works every day.
Yet many of the decisions that determine whether Finance will actually work are made months before go-live. Our ERP Implementation Advisory helps you get those decisions right.
Additional customization, integration rework and expanding scope
Data remediation, design changes and testing bottlenecks
Processing delays, reporting issues, reconciliation problems and extended close cycles
And even when the ERP goes live successfully, Finance may still be left with spreadsheets, manual reconciliations and workarounds.
A successful go-live does not always mean a successful finance transformation.
Your implementation partner knows the ERP.
Your IT team understands the technology environment.
Your finance team understands the business and accounting.
We work alongside your CFO, Controller, finance transformation team and implementation partner to independently challenge and validate the decisions being made throughout the ERP program. We are not there to replace your implementation partner — we are there to help you get more from the implementation.
Before configuration begins, we assess whether Finance is actually ready for implementation.
We look at your:
This identifies issues that should be addressed before they are designed into the new ERP.
An ERP implementation should not simply recreate today's finance function on a new platform. We help define how Finance should operate after implementation.
The objective is to design the future state first, then configure technology around it.
Requirements are where many future ERP problems begin. We independently review whether Finance requirements have been translated correctly into the proposed system design.
We challenge questions such as:
“The system can do it” is not the same as “the design will work.”
Moving poor data into a new ERP does not solve the data problem. We review the structures and data that Finance will depend on after go-live.
The objective is not simply to migrate data. It is to make sure Finance starts the new environment with data it can trust.
Controls should not be added after the ERP has been configured. We help embed control requirements into the design.
This helps prevent the organization from having to rebuild the control environment after go-live.
A transaction successfully posting is not enough. Finance needs to know what happens when things don't go according to plan.
We help develop and review testing around realistic scenarios:
The question isn't “did the test script pass?” It is “can Finance actually operate this way?”
Before go-live, we help Finance independently assess whether the organization is ready to operate on the new environment.
The result is a clear view of outstanding finance risks and what needs to be resolved before, during or immediately after go-live.
Go-live is not where finance transformation ends. It is where the design meets reality. The first close can expose:
We help Finance stabilize the environment, prioritize issues and distinguish temporary go-live problems from structural design issues.
Configures and implements the ERP.
Manages technology, infrastructure, security and integrations.
Owns accounting, reporting, controls and business requirements.
Independent finance transformation and implementation advisory across the three.
We help translate between the system, the accounting and the way Finance actually needs to operate.
If the project is already underway, we can perform an independent ERP Finance Health Check.
Then we separate what needs attention now, what must be resolved before go-live, and what can be addressed during stabilization.
Particularly valuable when the project dashboard says green, but the finance team isn't convinced.
If spreadsheets have returned, reconciliations have increased, reporting is difficult or Finance is creating workarounds, the ERP itself may not be the problem. We assess whether the root cause sits in:
Replacing a system without understanding the root cause risks rebuilding the same problems on another platform.
And the organization has a finance architecture capable of supporting what comes next.
ERP decisions made today can shape how Finance operates for years. Whether you are preparing for implementation, already midway through one, approaching go-live or trying to recover an implementation that has not delivered what you expected, we can help you identify the risks before they become more expensive to fix.