Systems & ERP Advisory

Bridging finance requirements and technology implementation

The Firm acts as a finance, taxation, reporting and controls professional alongside management, internal technology teams, ERP vendors and implementation partners.

Systems, internal controls and process assurance

The Firm assists organisations in reviewing, designing and strengthening systems of internal control, internal checks, approval mechanisms and financial processes. Reviews may cover manual and ERP-enabled processes and consider financial, operational, taxation, compliance, reporting and fraud-related risks.

Internal controls

  • Internal financial-control review
  • Risk and control matrices
  • Preventive and detective controls
  • Control testing and corrective-action monitoring

Internal checks

  • Segregation of duties
  • Maker-checker processes
  • Approval and reconciliation controls
  • Exception reporting and audit trails

ERP implementation assistance

Services may include business-requirement analysis, finance-process mapping, functional requirement documentation, chart-of-accounts design, reporting requirements, coordination with implementation teams and review of configured processes from accounting, tax and control perspectives.

SAP and other ERP process advisory

  • Procure to pay
  • Order to cash
  • Record to report
  • Accounts payable and receivable
  • Project and site accounting
  • Fixed assets
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Cost and profit centres
  • Inter-unit transactions
  • GST and TDS requirements
  • Financial closing
  • Management reporting

Functional validation

User acceptance testing

Test scenarios, representative transactions, accounting entries, tax treatment, approval workflows, system reports and documented gaps.

Data migration

Master-data validation, opening balances, trial-balance reconciliation, vendor and customer balances, assets, inventory and legacy-to-ERP comparisons.

Application controls

User roles, approval hierarchies, segregation of duties, duplicate-invoice checks, validations, audit logs and period controls.

Post-implementation review

Review of functional requirements, accounting and tax outputs, controls, reconciliations, master data, workarounds and management reports.

Technology-enabled professional solutions

Programming, data-processing and automation capabilities may support accounting, taxation, audit, compliance, internal controls and management reporting. Solutions may include reconciliation utilities, validation rules, dashboards, workflow controls and domain-specific professional applications.

The Firm is not presented as a general IT contractor or as a technical SAP-certified consultant. Its role is professional and functional: defining, reviewing and validating finance, taxation, reporting, compliance and internal-control requirements.