How should your finance function be designed, run and controlled?
Where should AI change how your organisation works, and what should it decide alone?
We redesign the finance function itself: operating model, processes, systems, data and controls. From diagnostic and business case, through design and system selection against a strict buying rule, to a live service with the old systems switched off and the benefits in the ledger. For organisations of 50 to 2,000 staff, public bodies and groups.
We decide where AI changes how your organisation works, across every function, and prove the cash result. A short portfolio with funding and stop rules; written tolerances for what AI decides alone; a vacancy gate so released work becomes released cost; one owner, one budget, one monthly review; a closing case reconciled to the accounts.
Targets are set before anything is built and measured against the accounts at the end.
Benefits sit in three categories: cash, capacity and outcome. Only cash enters the cash case, and a cash benefit counts when a post, a contract or a spend line actually changes, never at go-live.
The client's finance lead owns the baseline and the benefits register. We draft on the client's behalf; the client signs.
The gate that puts the benefits into next year's budget is the one that matters, and the work is planned to meet it.
Principle, default, hypothesis or evidence. Our defaults are our design until completed engagements prove them, and we say so.
One senior practitioner is accountable for the whole result. Named associates bring the specialist depth each workstream needs.
Acrobatic is senior-led. The practitioner who scopes the work leads it and is accountable for the result. Specialist capability, such as current hands-on configuration of the selected platform, data migration, testing, formal consultation and service management, is supplied by named associates engaged for the workstream that needs them. Every role in our methodologies is marked as Acrobatic lead, associate specialist or client, so you know before we start who does what.
