Daatlers · Finance Consolidation Finance reporting · International manufacturing group · hundreds of reports → one programme
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Hundreds of reports.
Same problems. Different numbers.

A large international manufacturing group had financial reporting scattered across entities, regions, divisions, and headquarters. There were hundreds of reports, and many of them were solving the same thing, just slightly differently each time.

We helped replace this chaos with one shared reporting solution.

01. Situation
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Reporting was fragmented.
Every team building its own version.

Teams were building their own versions of the same outputs, often with different filters, different data sources, and different currency conversion logic. The result was simple: the same topic existed in dozens of versions and each told a slightly different story.

Some reports were hard to maintain. Some had no one left to manage them because the person who built them had long since left the company. And some were built so poorly that it was genuinely faster to do it manually.

"How many reports do we actually have just for cash flow?" The answer was somewhere in the high tens. For a single topic.

02. Approach
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Shared data, shared logic, a unified design standard.

Together with the client we set up a long-term reporting model built on shared data, shared logic, and a unified design standard. That meant agreeing once on the foundations.

  • How to convert currencies
  • What cash flow actually means
  • How key financial metrics should be read
03. What Changed
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One reporting programme.
Everyone working from the same numbers.

The result is one reporting programme for the entire finance function. When logic changes, it changes once and applies everywhere. The team stopped building the same thing over and over again.

  • One data set as the foundation for the whole group
  • Logic change = one edit, not dozens
  • Team capacity redirected toward outputs that actually add value
04. Result
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200–300 reports
consolidated into roughly 30.

Development time dropped significantly. And above all, the debate over whose numbers are right stopped, because everyone was finally looking at the same base. The programme is live, running, and continues to evolve based on the teams' new requirements.

  • Original 200–300 reports consolidated into ~30
  • Development effort significantly reduced
  • End of disputes over whose numbers are correct
  • Programme still live and evolving
05. Takeaway
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When everyone solves the same problem
in their own way, the cost stays hidden
for a long time.

It's spread across too many people, too many reports, and too many years. Then one simple question arrives and suddenly you can see how large that problem had been all along.

Building a quality report still takes time. That hasn't changed. What changed is where that time goes.