Accelerate and improve the reliability of the group's financial management process

Background

The “Economic Management” team has launched a project to implement an EPM solution—Anaplan—to improve the reliability of actual and forecast data collection from entities, reduce processing/control times, and focus on analyzing results and defining management actions to be implemented.

Challenge

- Manage the specific functionalities of the group's various activities while ensuring that users can easily adopt the model - Reliably reproduce social and compiled visions for top management - Enable the Management Control department to control future developments of the model

Approach

Keyrus Management supported the team throughout all phases of the project: - Validation of functional requirements, which enabled the definition of the target process, management rules, workflow system, data entry and reporting for entities and headquarters - Development of each functional module of the FP&A application (income statements, analytical results, restatements, social and consolidated outputs) in semi-agile mode: development sprints, then acceptance testing, in order to ensure control of requirements, agility of modeling, and overall validation of the model by the business - Formalization of administrator and user guides - Training in the use of the solution and co-modeling with the Management Control Department

Key results

Benefits

- Model implemented in four months, containing actual and forecast data for 30 entities, with the ability to create scenarios and track up to four forecasting processes per year - Model designed by business users, who can maintain and develop the model - Interface designed and optimized to facilitate user adoption and accelerate change management

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