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IT Controlling
Do you want to place financial management at the heart of your IT department’s performance? Are you facing specific problems, such as managing your Run/Build costs and OPEX/CAPEX? Are you looking to control your costs while guaranteeing more reliability in your invoice and reporting processes?
Given the growing complexity of IT environments, rigorous financial management is essential. Our IT controlling experts can help you optimize your investments, control your costs, and align your IT department with your global strategy. Thanks to an in-depth analysis of your needs, we implement personalized solutions to improve the reliability of your financial data and identify new performance drivers.
Our expertise in IT Controlling
Operational Assistance
- Provide support to operational staff with budget monitoring and financial management awareness
- Monitor inter-division spending (OPEX/CAPEX and Run/Build)
- Monthly cost analysis with the CIO
- Provide support in creating and updating the budget
IT Consulting
- Co-manage IT/Digital reorganization and create a new management framework
- Redesign monthly reports to better understand expenses and forecasts
- Make financial data more reliable and reduce accounting reclassifications
- Provide support with creating a product-oriented operating model
IT Engagements
Areas of involvement
and specific contexts
- Centralizing the IT/Digital budget at the holding level, requiring effective cost management
- Change of management within IT and Finance departments, leading to a review of IT strategy
- Merging entities with separate ERP systems and closing schedules
- Management’s request for operational cost reduction
- Responding to a lack of specialized internal resources
Tailor-made assistance in IT engagements
- Specialized team: 50 Controllers, including 10 IT experts, provide personalized support
- Continuous training: Our experts receive regular training and keep up to date with recent developments (IAS 38 and product model)
- Diverse profiles: A wide range of skills at all levels
- Integrated approach: Mastery of IT department challenges and cost monitoring with analyses adapted to operational, financial, and management staff
- KPI-based management: Develop and monitor financial and operational KPIs for precise management of your activity
Client
- Automotive industrial group
Engagement objectives
- Consolidate budget from different divisions
- Operational support following IT function reorganization
- Monitor cross-division spending (under the axes: OPEX/CAPEX & Run/Project)
Our involvement
- Created a committee to monitor cross-divisional spending
- Implemented a joint budget review with divisions to present a Global IT budget via the OPEX/CAPEX and Run/Project axes
- Monitored actual IT spending by division and developed a consolidated view
- Implemented, with the PMO team, a common denomination of the various projects and types of costs included in the budget
- Monitored the purchasing team’s actions, aiming to achieve savings on RUN (Objective: €10m)
Client
- IT department of the North American branch of a major water management services group
Engagement objectives
- Clarify the understanding of costs of the two merged entities
- Move from a purely accounting approach to an activity-and-business-based approach
- Ensure the reliability of financial data and minimize subsequent reclassifications
- Provide reports enabling effective activity management
Our involvement
- Led workshops with Controlling, Accounting, Purchasing, and Finance teams to review the processes of the two merged entities
- Sped up monthly closing deadlines
- Produced reports showing RUN/BUILD costs, with details by nature and project
- Analyzed and reviewed monthly costs with the CIO and Domain directors
- Provided support with budget updates
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Accelerate your digital transformation thanks to our expertise in IT controlling. Our personalized solutions allow you to make informed decision and optimize your information system. Would you like to find out more? Contact our experts!