Consolidation by spreadsheet
Every close, someone re-maps charts of accounts by hand. The mapping lives in a workbook, not a system, and it leaves with whoever built it.
By role · Finance
Close the books on
Close the books on
one set of numbers
Your entities, accounts and cost centres live in different ERPs with different charts of accounts. SCIKIQ resolves them into one governed Finance 360 — so variance analysis stops being a spreadsheet exercise.
20+enterprise deployments in production
187+connectors, including non-invasive SAP
60days to a live 360 view, typically
1governed definition per metric
01A day in the role
What the CFO sees
on a Monday morning
One governed brief instead of nine dashboards — every number traced to its source system, every recommendation showing its reasoning.
Good morning, AnitaMonday · 8:15 AM
Financial health91▲ 3AI confidence96%Agents working6liveDecisions need you2
Today’s brief
Quarter-end margin is tracking 1.8 points ahead of plan.
Gross margin improved because freight normalised and the pricing change held. Operating cost is flat against a rising headcount, and cash conversion improved for the third month.
If only one decision is made today, adjusting the FX hedge on the EUR exposure is expected to protect the most margin.
Confidence96%
Financial health
- Revenue+9.4%Ahead of plan
- Gross margin+1.8ptFreight normalised
- Operating cost− 0.4%Flat on headcount
- Cash conversion+6 daysImproving
- Budget variance− 3.1%Narrowing
- Close readiness+22%Day 4 of 5
What changed
- FX exposure €4.2MEUR position moved outside the hedge band overnight
- DSO − 4 daysTwo enterprise accounts settled early
- Opex +$310KCloud spend rose with the new ingestion volume
- Revenue recognition $1.4MThree contracts met their delivery milestone
- Intercompany breaks − 62%Automated reconciliation cleared the backlog
- Forecast accuracy +7ptEight quarters of history now feeding the model
Decisions
Adjust the EUR hedge
Protects$640K margin
Confidence96%
WindowBefore Thursday close
Review Q3 accrual policy
Prevents$210K restatement risk
Confidence88%
WindowThis week
AI reasoning — why the hedge?
- EUR exposure sits 18% outside the approved hedge band
- Margin sensitivity is the highest of any open exposure
- Treasury capacity is already free after the USD roll
- 14 comparable adjustments recovered 0.9pt of margin on average
Recommendation Adjust today.
AI has been working
- Reconciled 14 intercompany ledgers
- Matched 8,400 AP invoices to PO
- Forecast Q3 revenue across 4 scenarios
- Flagged 23 anomalous postings for review
- Rebuilt the board pack with Friday’s actuals
- Traced every variance to its source ledger
WhyEUR exposure is outside the approved hedge band
Why nowThe band was breached overnight; cost rises with delay
Evidence14 comparable adjustments, +0.9pt margin on average
Confidence96% · based on 8 quarters of treasury history
AlternativeWait for Thursday — models $180K more exposure
Ask me anything — or tell me the outcome you’re trying to achieve
Illustrative CFO view · sample data
02The problem
What the CFO actually deals with
Numbers that disagree
Finance, FP&A and the board pack each compute margin slightly differently, so the meeting debates the number instead of the decision.
No line back to the ledger
When a figure looks wrong, proving where it came from takes days of tracing across systems.
03What changes
One governed view,
and four things follow
01
Resolve every entity
Legal entities, accounts and cost centres across all ERPs resolve to one golden record, with the mapping governed in the platform rather than a workbook.
02
Define the metric once
Margin, EBITDA and variance get one governed definition in the semantic layer, so every report and every AI answer resolves against the same rule.
03
Trace any figure
Full lineage means any number in the board pack traces back to the source ledger entry that produced it.
04
Let agents watch it
Agents flag budget variance and anomalous postings continuously, escalating to a human before close rather than after.
04What it runs on
Built on Finance 360
This role runs on Finance 360 — entities, P&L, variance and financial health — assembled over your existing systems with no replatform.
- Supplier 360 — spend and payment risk on the same governed base
- Data Governance — audit-ready evidence and policy-as-code
Want to see this on your own data?
Thirty minutes on your actual sources — no pitch, no form maze.
Frequently asked questions
How does SCIKIQ help shorten the financial close?
It removes the manual consolidation step. Entities, accounts and cost centres from every ERP resolve into one governed Finance 360, so the mapping is maintained in the platform rather than rebuilt in a spreadsheet each period.
Can we trace a number in the board pack back to its source?
Yes. Every figure carries lineage back to the source ledger entry, which is what makes a governed number defensible in an audit or a board meeting.
Do we have to replace our ERPs?
No. SCIKIQ reads from your existing ERPs in place, including SAP S/4HANA, BW/BW4HANA and ECC, without a migration.