What are the benefits of working with Catalant for finance and accounting operations engagements?

Catalant delivers accelerated cost reductions and heightened decision velocity by transforming manual transactional workflows into scalable automated operations. Engagements leverage experienced former corporate finance operators who replace theoretical advice with hands-on optimization. Structured modernization ensures accounting functions eliminate material control gaps while securing measurable processing efficiency gains.

What type of work does Catalant do in finance and accounting operations?

Catalant diagnoses workflow baselines, designs future-state shared services models, and deploys enabling technologies. Financial process experts implement robotic process automation, configure enterprise performance management platforms, and embed AI across transactional lifecycles. The work establishes standardized SLAs to scale execution efficiency.

What do corporate finance and accounting operations consultants do?

Finance operations consultants specialize in auditing transactional workflows, reducing processing cycle times, and optimizing global operations. Specialized advisors apply comprehensive benchmark diagnostics to evaluate process maturity across core accounting structures. These industry experts construct integrated automation roadmaps to transform legacy finance departments into strategic engines.

How can organizations resolve manual bottlenecks and slow cycle times in core financial workflows?

Organizations resolve manual finance bottlenecks by executing structured workflow diagnostics that benchmark existing transactional tasks against leading global performance indices. Catalant consultants replace slow analog tracking methods with automated RPA workflows and cloud-based enterprise performance management architectures. System calibration eliminates repetitive data entry points to accelerate corporate reporting speeds.

How do finance transformation experts optimize record-to-report and order-to-cash lifecycles for enterprise clients?

Finance transformation experts optimize accounting lifecycles by conducting deep-dive process capability mappings to locate hidden execution friction points. Consultants integrate AI directly into core enterprise resource planning architectures to automate reconciliation steps. Thorough optimization reduces standard monthly closing times, delivering real-time visibility.

When do traditional corporate finance modernization strategies fail to deliver long-term value?

Traditional finance modernizations fail when programs focus exclusively on software procurement without restructuring underlying process designs or transferring capabilities to internal teams. Catalant consultants eliminate this operational risk by establishing continuous KPI monitoring. Embedding local capability reinforcement loops ensures updated automated habits scale permanently with corporate growth.

What core components must be included in a professional finance and accounting automation roadmap?

A finance automation roadmap must include detailed process baseline diagnostics, future-state technology specifications, and explicit capability transfer frameworks. Catalant consultants incorporate comprehensive RPA scripts and specific KPIs directly into plans. Structural parameters empower business units to manage system upgrades autonomously.

How do leaders maintain regulatory compliance controls during a large-scale accounting system transformation?

Leaders maintain regulatory compliance by embedding automated control points and clear separation of duties matrices directly inside updated workflows. Catalant consultants connect standard division outputs to centralized control tower governance platforms. Continuous tracking eliminates visibility gaps, protecting corporate accounting integrity throughout complex technological migrations.

Service Offering

Finance & Accounting Operations

Finance and accounting organizations face mounting pressure to streamline and automate core business processes at scale, including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, and plan-to-actual workflows. Catalant helps organizations to:

Transform and optimize core business processes

Drive automation with RPA, AI, and analytics

Strengthen controls and decision-making

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APPROACH

Streamline Finance and Accounting at Speed and Scale

Diagnose the baseline

Benchmark current workflows against industry standards. Identify automation opportunities, control gaps, and the size of the prize across cycle time and cost.

Design the future-state model

Develop a future-state model spanning process design, technology, and shared-services footprint. Quantify the case for change with savings, control, and decision-velocity gains.

Deploy enabling technologies

Implement ERP, EPM, and AI to enable automation and advanced analytics across finance and accounting workflows. Eliminate manual touchpoints and surface real-time insights to leaders.

Optimize the delivery model

Consolidate transactional activities into regional or global delivery centers. Standardize policies, SLAs, and governance to scale efficiency across geographies.

Sustain adoption and value

Establish KPIs, governance, and continuous improvement that lock in gains. Transfer capability to internal teams so improvements scale with the business.

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Finance & Accounting Operations Use Cases

Problem

A global rental car company operating in more than 50 countries had grown through numerous acquisitions, leaving finance and accounting workflows fragmented across geographies and lacking the standardization needed to run reliably at scale.

Action

Catalant experts led a concept-to-execution engagement, beginning with a diagnostic that identified opportunities to automate transactional workflows, standardize processes, and modernize the technology stack. A single global finance technology footprint was deployed across 50 countries, anchored by Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM, alongside a global shared services network spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Results

Standardized finance and accounting processes across 50 countries
$50M+ in annual run-rate savings through automation and consolidation
Single global finance technology footprint enabling reporting comparability and transparency

SaaS Quote-to-Order Acceleration

A publicly-traded platform-as-a-service company faced rising volume and complexity in quoting and order management, lengthening sales cycles and straining downstream order-to-cash performance. A six-week diagnostic analyzed quote-to-order workflows and identified bottlenecks across approvals, systems, and the global labor footprint. A Catalant expert identified a 50% reduction opportunity in both cycle times and cost-to-serve through process redesign, streamlined approvals, and global labor leverage.

PE-Backed Industrial Finance Integration

A private equity–backed industrial manufacturer expanding through acquisitions faced fragmented finance data, inconsistent KPIs across acquired entities, and limited margin visibility at the consolidated level. Catalant experts built a unified finance data model integrating ERP, sales, and operational data, then layered AI-driven analytics to surface margin drivers and cost anomalies. Finance gained the integrated visibility needed to support growth decisions while maintaining cost and margin control.