Real transformations, real results

How mid-market finance teams replaced manual planning with real-time decision-making.

Manufacturing · Netherlands

From 3-week close to 3-day forecast

A Dutch manufacturing holding with 6 entities was running monthly consolidation across 40+ Excel files. The CFO team spent 3 weeks every month just closing the books — leaving almost no time for analysis.

85%
Reduction in consolidation time
3 days
Monthly close (was 3 weeks)
10 weeks
Implementation to go-live
The challenge

Six business units, each maintaining their own Excel models with no standardised structure. Consolidation required manual copy-paste between files, with version control managed by email. A single formula error in Q3 caused a material misstatement in the board report.

What we did

Mapped the full consolidation process across all entities, designed a unified data model, and implemented Farseer with direct ERP integration. Delivered a live consolidation dashboard accessible to the CFO and all entity controllers simultaneously.

"We went from dreading month-end to actually having time to analyse what the numbers mean. That's the real change." — CFO, Manufacturing Group, Netherlands
PE Portfolio · Austria

Standardising FP&A across 4 portfolio companies

A Vienna-based private equity fund needed consistent, comparable planning data across four portfolio companies with different ERPs, different reporting structures, and different finance teams.

4
Companies standardised
1 view
Portfolio-wide dashboard
16 weeks
Full rollout across all entities
The challenge

The fund's investment team had no consistent way to compare performance across portfolio companies. Every quarterly review required the finance team to manually reconcile data from four different formats — a process that took two weeks and was still unreliable.

What we did

Designed a standardised FP&A framework applicable across all four companies despite different ERPs (SAP, Dynamics, and two custom systems). Implemented Farseer with a common chart of accounts and unified KPI definitions. Built a fund-level consolidation view for the investment team.

"For the first time, I can look at one screen and see how all four companies are tracking against plan — in real time." — Investment Director, Private Equity Fund, Vienna
Scale-up · Western Europe

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