Diagnose
Trace reporting back through systems, files and manual judgement. Agree what needs to change first.
AI for finance · built on control
AI is the payoff. Governed data is the work.
Aldous gives your finance team one set of numbers that reconcile to the ledger, so reporting, planning and AI all give the same answer. Your team owns it.
Traceable reporting. Practical AI. Client-owned capability.
Current implementation · c.$130m US healthcare group
Rebuilding the finance layer from raw data to board reporting.
Aldous is working with a c.$130m US healthcare group to replace fragmented systems and spreadsheet logic with a client-owned finance layer, reconciled KPIs and repeatable board reporting.
Current scope
Source-to-ledger lineage, expected revenue and cost modelling, controlled journal outputs, and finance-team handover with documentation.
The work is creating one finance-owned path from operational data to the board pack, with every material number traceable through the logic that produced it.
Discuss your finance function →Finance lineage in delivery
Operational data
ERP, CRM and operational systems
Finance logic
Revenue, cost and controls
Posting output
Traceable finance journal
Reporting
Management and board views
What Aldous builds
The finance layer. Built, tested and handed over.
Governed means every number has one approved definition, reconciles to the ledger, and can be traced back to the transaction that produced it.
No licence. No retained dependency. Your team owns the models, controls, documentation and reporting.
AI reads governed outputs. It does not define the finance truth.
How engagements work
Find the control point. Build what changes the answer.
Every engagement starts with evidence: the reporting, transformations, workbooks and team judgement behind the number.
Build
Implement the data, controls and reporting. Typically eight to twelve weeks.
Hand over
Train the finance team and leave the code, documentation and ownership with them.
The diagnostic stands alone. Build scope and fee are fixed before implementation starts.
Founded and led by Ben Harper
Senior throughout.
Operator-led. No junior consultancy pyramid. Ben works directly with the CFO and finance team, from diagnostic through design, implementation and handover.
19 years building and rebuilding finance functions. FCA (ICAEW). Most recently FP&A Director at hyperexponential.
For CFOs, CEOs and private-equity operating teams
Discuss your finance function →A focused first conversation. No generic discovery workshop.