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Fast Close

Our Fast close offer speeds up and secures your accounting close, freeing your teams from repetitive tasks.

Your challenges, our expertise

Your closing challenges

In large groups, the closing of accounts remains one of the most time-consuming processes, and one of the most exposed to the risk of error. Longer lead times mean more delays in decision-making.

Today’s Finance Departments are seeking to transform this process into a genuine performance driver.

You would like to :

Reduce your closing time?

Concentrate your teams’ time on higher value-added tasks?

Increase the reliability and traceability of your closing processes?

Industrialize and standardize your closing practices across the group?

Our approach

Our commitment to helping you achieve greater operational efficiency

Our Fast Close offer helps Finance Departments reduce their closing times, by combining process optimization, organizational evolution and integration of the best EPM and automation solutions.

It is part of a modern vision of financial performance. In addition to reducing closing times, it aims to improve the quality, reliability and fluidity of financial data.

Today, Fast Close is more than just producing faster. It is a real lever enabling organizations to make rapid, well-informed decisions, based on secure, continuously available financial information.

Our approach is based on a comprehensive and progressive transformation of your closing processes. It’s not a one-off project, but an iterative process aligned with your challenges and priorities.

SQORUS expertise

Our Fast close services to manage your business with reliable, up-to-date data

Thanks to an in-depth analysis of your context, we work with you to define a clear, prioritized path for achieving your performance objectives, by mobilizing the levers most relevant to your organization.

Business processes

Technologies

Organization

1. Business processes

Identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
Simplification and standardization of closing practices
Anticipating and managing exceptions

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2. Technology

Implementation or optimization of closing tools and EPM solutions
Improved data circulation (flows, scheduling)
Automating repetitive tasks via RPA
Exploring the benefits of AI (anomaly detection, data entry assistance)

3. Team organization

Analysis of roles and responsibilities
Review of scope and modes of collaboration
Aligning teams with performance objectives

Benefits

What Fast Close means for your Finance Department

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Faster closing cycles

Improved data quality and traceability

Reduce manual tasks and risk of error

Smoother exchanges and information flows

Strengthening steering and decision-making capabilities

OUR SUPPORT

Implement an effective Fast Close strategy with our methodology

For over 35 years, we have been providing advice to the Finance Departments of major groups. Our expertise in accounting processes, performance analysis, consolidation and reporting are the strengths on which our Fast Close value proposition is based.

We offer a modular approach to suit your context and needs.

Framing

Analysis of existing situation and identification of irritants.

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Choice support

Support in choosing a tool based on recommendations (expression of needs, specifications, calls for tender).

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Implementation

Support in the design, acceptance and deployment phases of selected solutions (tools, automation, standardization).

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Steering

Project management (governance, planning, progress, risks, budget).

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Change management

Acculturation, adoption and anchoring.

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Run

Post-startup support, stabilization, maintenance in operational condition and continuous improvement.

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SQORUS expertise

Our experts for your fast closing

Depending on the key objectives you have identified in advance of an assignment, and then on the recommendations of our scoping study, we can deploy an appropriate system by drawing on our pool of consultants:

AMOA consultants and transformation of the Finance function

EPM and consolidation experts

Business Intelligence Consultants

IT consultants (inter-application flows, AI and RPA)

Project managers

The SQORUS choice

The SQORUS choice to speed up your closing process

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Business & technical expertise

In-depth knowledge of the financial challenges and processes involved in closing accounts, and of the tools used.

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Pragmatic approach

Concrete solutions tailored to your organization and your needs.

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Customized support

A turnkey approach from strategy to implementation.

Ready to cut your closing times and free up your teams?

Contact us to identify your automation levers and set up a Fast Close tailored to your needs. Our experts finance your situation and propose a concrete path.

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