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Operator judgement, not advisory theatre.

Finance systemsthat can keep up.

Aldous rebuilds the finance operating layer beneath the board pack: systems, data flows, controls and automation that let reporting, planning, close and AI tooling move at the speed the business expects.

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Finance logic map

A diagnostic before the programme writes its own assumptions.

The work clarifies:
  • Judgementwhere reporting, planning and close actually depend on manual judgement→
  • Controlswhich controls, data flows and handoffs create risk or drag→
  • Criteriawhich moves come first, and which can wait→
Judgement / Controls / CriteriaSimple process map showing how the diagnostic turns tangled dependencies into sequenced first moves.
High-stakes moments

When the stakes are too high for generic discovery.

Teams call Aldous for:
  • New CFOinherited mess→
  • Transformationfinance transformation programme→
  • Capacitystretched finance team→
  • AI readinessbefore signing the AI vendor→

After the diagnostic, some clients stop. Others ask Aldous to stay and build what comes next.

Founded by

Ben Harper

19 years building and rebuilding finance functions. Most recently FP&A Director at hyperexponential.

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Ben Harper, founder of Aldous
CFO diagnostic enquiries
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