Complimentary Offer

Complimentary 10-Hour SAP Financial Close Assessment

A focused, architect-led assessment designed to help organizations establish a fact-based understanding of their financial close challenges and identify practical SAP-enabled improvement opportunities — without beginning with a large consulting engagement.

10 Hours
Duration
5 Days
Sessions
Architect-Led
Format
Complimentary
Cost
Who Should Apply

Assessment Eligibility

The assessment is best suited for organizations that:

Require more than five business days to close
Experience recurring close delays
Depend heavily on spreadsheets and manual coordination
Operate multiple SAP and non-SAP systems
Have multiple legal entities, plants, regions, or shared-service centers
Experience intercompany reconciliation issues
Are implementing or have implemented SAP S/4HANA
Are considering SAP Advanced Financial Closing or Group Reporting
Need a close transformation roadmap
Need an independent architecture perspective
Want to validate whether current SAP capabilities are fully utilized
Who Participates

Assessment Participants

The client may nominate relevant stakeholders from across the close process. Not every stakeholder must attend every session.

Corporate Controller
Record-to-Report Lead
Financial Close Manager
Consolidation Lead
Plant Controller
Cost Accounting Lead
Accounts Payable Lead
Accounts Receivable Lead
Treasury or Cash Management Lead
Intercompany Lead
Tax Representative
Internal Controls Representative
SAP Finance Lead
Integration Architect
Data or Reporting Lead
Shared Services Representative
Session Details

Five-Day Assessment Agenda

Day 12 Hours

Close Objectives and Enterprise Context

  • Current close duration
  • Target close duration
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual close differences
  • External reporting obligations
  • Management reporting expectations
  • Legal entity and geographic structure
  • Shared services model
  • Current close calendar
  • Critical-path activities
  • Executive pain points
  • Previous improvement initiatives
  • Current SAP roadmap
Day 22 Hours

Operational and Subledger Dependencies

  • Plant close
  • Production order close
  • Inventory close
  • Material Ledger
  • Product costing
  • Goods receipt and invoice receipt
  • Accounts payable
  • Accounts receivable
  • Fixed assets
  • Bank accounting
  • Treasury inputs
  • Payroll interfaces
  • Revenue recognition
  • Cutoff procedures
Day 32 Hours

General Ledger and Intercompany Close

  • Journal-entry process
  • Manual and recurring journals
  • Allocations
  • Accruals and provisions
  • Foreign currency valuation
  • Balance-sheet reconciliations
  • Suspense accounts
  • Open-item management
  • Intercompany billing
  • Intercompany reconciliation
  • Transfer-pricing adjustments
  • Cross-company postings
  • Parallel accounting
  • Review and approval workflow
Day 42 Hours

Consolidation, Reporting, Controls and Technology

  • Consolidation process
  • Group reporting
  • Eliminations
  • Top-side adjustments
  • Reporting dependencies
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • External consolidation tools
  • Interfaces and batch jobs
  • SAP Advanced Financial Closing
  • Workflow and process automation
  • Data quality and master data
  • Security and access
  • Audit evidence and close certification
  • AI-assisted exception management
Day 52 Hours

Findings and Transformation Roadmap

  • Key observations
  • Root-cause themes
  • Quick improvements
  • SAP capability opportunities
  • Process-standardization opportunities
  • Automation candidates
  • Data and integration priorities
  • Governance requirements
  • Target close model
  • Indicative transformation sequence
  • Decisions requiring executive sponsorship
  • Recommended next engagement
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