Data, Systems & Reporting
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Data, Systems & ReportingAI & Automation for Finance Teams
The finance function, running on fewer hours
Most finance teams lose their week to work that follows a rule: reconciliation, coding, chasing, and rebuilding the same reporting pack every month. We map what your team actually spends its time on, automate the parts that shouldn't need a person, and build the reporting on top. Designed by an ACA-qualified accountant, so it holds up when someone checks it.
Who it's for
Growing businesses where finance has become the bottleneck: month-end takes a week, the reporting arrives too late to act on, and the answer to volume has been another hire. Often multi-currency, multi-entity, or running on a stack of tools that don't talk to each other. We also work with UK and global businesses.
What you get
- A map of where the hours actually go. Before anything gets built, a clear read of which finance tasks are rules-based and which genuinely need judgement.
- Reconciliation and month-end automation. Bank and payment-processor matching, invoice coding, intercompany, and the checklist work around close.
- Reporting that builds itself. The management pack assembled from live data instead of rebuilt by hand each period.
- An audit trail on everything. What came in, what rule was applied, what changed, and who approved it, so the process survives scrutiny.
- Interim finance leadership if you need it. Senior interpretation alongside the build, working within your team's supervision. Not bookkeeping; if you need a bookkeeper we introduce one who works directly with you.
How it works
1. Diagnose
We start with your systems, your data and your processes, mapping the flows, the controls, and the manual steps between them, before recommending anything.
2. Design
We agree what gets automated, what stays with a person, and what the controls around it look like. Sized to your business and commercially grounded.
3. Deliver
We build it and run it in alongside your existing process until it's proven, then hand over with documentation. Interim finance leadership runs alongside where that helps.
4. Evolve
Finance processes change as the business does. We stay close to what we've built so it keeps earning its place.
Engagements run as fixed-price build sprints, with a monthly retainer where ongoing leadership is part of it. Everything starts with a short call and an AI & Automation Health Check.
Frequently asked questions
What finance work can actually be automated?
The rules-based parts. Bank and payment-processor reconciliation, invoice coding, intercompany matching, revenue recognition schedules, month-end checklists, and the reporting pack that gets rebuilt by hand every period. Anything that needs judgement stays with a person; anything that follows a rule someone could write down is a candidate.
How is this different from just buying more accounting software?
Software solves the problem it was designed for. The time usually goes on the gaps between systems: exporting from one tool, reshaping it in a spreadsheet, importing it somewhere else. We automate those gaps, working with the tools you already have rather than replacing them.
Do you do the bookkeeping?
No. GME advises, designs and builds. Any hands-on finance work runs on an interim basis within your team's supervision. If you need a bookkeeper, we introduce one who works directly with you.
Will an auditor accept an automated process?
They will if it's built to be checked. Every automation we build keeps an audit trail: what came in, what rule was applied, what changed, and who approved it. That comes from having sat on the other side of the table auditing regulated insurers, brokers and MGAs.
Can you provide interim finance leadership as well?
Yes, alongside the build and working within your team's supervision. It suits businesses where the reporting needs rebuilding and someone senior needs to interpret it while that happens.
Do you work with businesses outside Australia?
Yes. GME is Sydney-based and works across Australia. The founder qualified and spent five years in financial-services audit in the UK, so we work comfortably with UK and global businesses too, including multi-currency and multi-entity reporting.
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