Global Account-to-Report 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 Account-to-Report (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

1. Assess – Navigating the Landscape
   Conducted deep-dive workshops and volumetric data analysis to map current-state A2R processes, quantify effort drivers, and identify inefficiencies.
2. Prioritise – Setting the Course
   Analysed workflows to determine automation opportunities, ranking and prioritising processes using data-driven insights.
3. Design – Building the Fleet
   Created detailed future-state process maps, supported by automation mock-ups to bring benefits to life and highlight transformation value.
4. 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.