faster and easier to trust.
Took a monthly reporting cycle that ran ten days and got it to five, then kept it there. Now runs a 42-person finance operations team across three UK business units at Kora Capital. Managers get the numbers while there is still time to act on them, and nobody works a weekend to make that happen.
17 years fixing slow finance operations
10 days → 5
The monthly reporting cycle, rebuilt and held
6 hrs
Returned to each team, every week
42 people
Across three UK business units
Career
17 years, five companies, one job:
make the numbers quicker to agree on and easier to trust.
Why this matters
The numbers
are late because nobody
owns them.
Not because
the data
is missing.
Most finance teams already have the data. What they do not have is agreement on who owns which number, and by when. Without that, a five-day job turns into ten, and good people spend the week in meetings about numbers instead of acting on them.
Who this is for
Most people get in touch about one of three things.
Numbers that arrive too late to use
The monthly cycle drags on and nobody is quite sure who owns which number. Fixed it five times now, in five different companies.
A forecast nobody trusts
The numbers get picked apart in meetings instead of used to make a decision. That is usually about who owns them.
A new finance manager
You got the job and nobody showed you how to run the team. A small group meets every quarter.
Claire Hollis · Director of Finance Operations
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