100% of critical business spend mapped to COE Lead & budget now line
Reclaimed 50+ hours monthly redirected from spreadsheets to strategic priorities
Our Approach | Reducing the Visibility Gap Finance Leaders Fear
A global safety and security organization relied on detailed reports to track spend by team and budget line. Then the company changed its core finance system. The feed disappeared and broke the link between journal entries, cost centers, and COE ownership. Suddenly, leaders saw only one rolled‑up number for all safety and security spend. They had no view of who spent what, where the money went, or how each area tracked to budget.
Overnight, COE leaders lost the ability to see where dollars were being allocated. They could not tell how each area was tracking against budget. For most of the fiscal year, they could not answer basic questions from finance and the C‑suite about actuals, variances, or risk. The downside was clear: overspending in key categories, misallocated resources, and a loss of trust in the function’s ability to steward its budget.
The How | Rebuilding the Finance Data Foundation
The organization partnered with Analytic Vizion to restore financial visibility and rebuild its financial data foundation. The aim was not just to recreate a report. The team wanted a resilient, reusable model that gave leaders confidence in the numbers and could survive future system changes.
First, Analytic Vizion met with business operations and insights leaders to learn how they needed to see the business. They clarified which COEs owned which dollars, how budget lines showed up in real conversations, and which categories were non‑negotiable for finance. That context shaped the technical design.
Next, the team tackled the data engineering work. They mapped fields across the new accounting system and related data sources. They rebuilt the path from journal entries to transactions, employees, and COE ownership. This approach captured almost all of the ways entries appeared in the data. It allowed the pipeline to classify and attribute most spend without ongoing manual effort.
The How | Turning Data into an Executive-ready Source of Truth
With the core logic rebuilt, Analytic Vizion created a unified financial data source. It joined budget dollars and actual spend at the budget‑line level. The model lived in a cloud data platform and supported multiple fiscal years. This design helped the organization avoid the same crisis in future planning cycles.
On top of this model, Analytic Vizion delivered an executive‑ready analytics layer for finance and operations leaders. A new dashboard showed quarter‑to‑date and year‑to‑date spend versus budget by COE and budget line. Users could start with a high‑level view and drill into transaction detail when needed. Leaders finally saw spend in the same structure they used for budgeting and accountability conversations.
The Results | What changed for the C‑suite
The impact for finance and enterprise leadership was immediate and tangible. The safety and security team moved from 0% mapped spend to approximately 95% of spend accurately tied to a COE lead and budget line. Finance‑critical categories achieved 100% coverage, restoring confidence that the highest‑risk areas were fully visible and controllable.
The new solution freed more than 50 hours each month that had previously been consumed by manual data pulls, reconciliation work, and one‑off reporting. Those hours were redirected to forward‑looking analysis, scenario planning, and strategic conversations with the C‑suite.
Most importantly, leaders now had a single, trusted source of truth for financial performance. They could quickly see which teams were at risk of overspending and where there was room to reallocate. Leaders could also see how the function was trending across the year. Instead of reacting to surprises after the fact, they could anticipate budget issues and intervene early.
Facing your own visibility gap after a system change?
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Key Takeaways
System changes shouldn’t break visibility
A resilient finance data foundation ensures you still see every dollar by owner and budget line when tools and platforms change.
Your finance data model is a strategic asset
A unified model that joins budgets and actuals becomes the backbone for budget stewardship, forecasting, and executive decision-making.
Trusted coverage unlocks confident leadership
When 95%+ of spend is mapped and finance‑critical categories are fully covered, leaders can move from chasing numbers to making proactive resource decisions.
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