Diagnose
Trace reporting back through systems, files and manual judgement. Agree what needs to change first.
AI for finance · built on control
AI is the payoff. Governed data is the work.
Aldous gives your finance team one set of numbers that reconcile to the ledger, so reporting, planning and AI all give the same answer. Your team owns it.
Current implementation · c.$130m US healthcare group
Rebuilding finance from raw data to board reporting.
Aldous is working with a c.$130m US healthcare group to replace fragmented systems and spreadsheet logic with client-owned finance models, reconciled KPIs and repeatable board reporting.
Current scope
Source-to-ledger lineage, expected revenue and cost modelling, controlled journal outputs, and finance-team handover with documentation.
The work is creating one finance-owned path from operational data to the board pack, with every material number traceable through the logic that produced it.
Discuss your finance function →How the numbers reach the board pack
Operational data
ERP, CRM and operational systems
Finance logic
Revenue, cost and controls
Posting output
Traceable finance journal
Reporting
Management and board views
What Aldous builds
A finance system your team can run.
Each material number has an approved definition, reconciles to the ledger and remains traceable to the underlying transaction.
No licence. No retained dependency. Your team owns the models, controls, documentation and reporting.
AI works from the definitions and reconciled numbers that finance approves.
How engagements work
Start with the reporting. Work back to what needs fixing.
We start with the reports, spreadsheets, transformations and judgement behind the numbers.
Build
Implement the data, controls and reporting. Typically eight to twelve weeks.
Hand over
Train the finance team and leave the code, documentation and ownership with them.
The diagnostic identifies the first build and sets its scope, fee and measure of success. It can also stand alone.
Founded and led by Ben Harper
Senior throughout.
Operator-led. No junior consultancy pyramid. Ben works directly with the CFO and finance team, from diagnostic through design, implementation and handover.
19 years building and rebuilding finance functions. FCA (ICAEW). Most recently FP&A Director at hyperexponential.
For CFOs, CEOs and private-equity operating teams
Discuss your finance function →Bring the reporting problem you need to solve. No generic discovery workshop.