Global Accounting-to-Reporting Automation in order to Free 7,000+ Hours and Unlock £2.5M Savings
A Global maritime organisation conducted a Finance discovery in order to identify automation opportunities across Accounting-to-Reporting (A2R), freeing 7,000+ hours annually and enabling Finance teams to focus on strategic business partnership.
Highlights
Outcomes:
Identified and prioritised automation opportunities across Financial Reporting, Treasury, and FP&A.
Delivered clear visibility of inefficiencies and bottlenecks, enabling targeted improvement.
Identified automation opportunities in order to free ~7,000+ hours annually, improving scalability and resilience.
Deliverable:
Future-state process designs and automation mock-ups.
Comprehensive documentation and Sprint 0 roadmap to drive delivery.
Statistic:
~£2.5M projected savings across 3 years.
7,000 hours per year identified for potential automation.
Background
A leading global maritime organisation, operating across multiple regions and serving a worldwide customer base, sought to modernise its Finance operations as part of a broader transformation programme.
Finance functions were heavily reliant on manual, spreadsheet-driven processes across A2R activities, leading to long reporting cycles, error risk, and limited ability to scale. The leadership team recognised that without automation, Finance would remain reactive and transactional - unable to provide the insight and agility required by the wider business.
Enfuse Group was engaged to assess, design, and prepare the foundation for a future-ready A2R automation programme.
Challenge
The organisation faced several barriers to achieving Finance transformation:
Manual, fragmented processes across Financial Reporting, Treasury, and FP&A.
Inefficiencies and cycle delays undermining timely decision-making.
High operational effort, consuming thousands of hours that could not be redeployed to strategic analysis.
A structured, data-backed roadmap was required to identify and prioritise automation opportunities and build organisational alignment around the future-state vision.
The Enfuse Approach
Enfuse partnered with Finance leadership, transformation teams, and process SMEs to define the future state and create a practical roadmap for automation delivery.
Implementation in Phases
Assess – Navigating the Landscape
Conducted deep-dive workshops and volumetric data analysis to map current-state A2R processes, quantify effort drivers, and identify inefficiencies.Prioritise – Setting the Course
Analysed workflows to determine automation opportunities, ranking and prioritising processes using data-driven insights.Design – Building the Fleet
Created detailed future-state process maps, supported by automation mock-ups to bring benefits to life and highlight transformation value.Review – Aligning the Crew
Presented the automation vision across Finance functions to build momentum. Defined a Sprint 0 strategy and roadmap, providing a strong foundation for implementation.
Enfuse produced detailed process documentation, created ROI models, and ensured alignment between global standards and local operational needs.
Impact
Projected ~£2.5M in savings over 3 years.
Projected freeing up~7,000+ hours annually, enabling Finance teams to refocus on higher-value work.
Established a robust Sprint 0 roadmap and business case to accelerate automation delivery.
Strengthened Finance’s ability to act as a strategic partner by reducing cycle times and error risks.
Positioned the organisation for scalable, sustainable transformation across A2R.
Planning your own Finance transformation? Talk to Enfuse about how automation can unlock capacity, reduce costs, and elevate Finance to a strategic partner role. Contact Zeb Khan to get started.
