ERP Solutions for Business Groups & Conglomerates for Netherlands Business Groups

Market Landscape

Dutch corporate structures produce more entities than the size of the business suggests. It is entirely normal for a Netherlands group of modest scale to hold a holding company, an operating company, a property company and a personnel company, each a separate legal entity with its own filing obligations. Add acquisitions and foreign subsidiaries and a Dutch group of a few hundred people can be running a consolidation across eight or ten entities, which is a far heavier reporting load than the headcount implies.

Key Challenges

The practical consequence is that Dutch group finance teams spend a large part of every month on mechanics rather than analysis. Intercompany transactions between the operating and personnel companies are frequent and routine, and reconciling them manually consumes time every period. Each acquired Dutch entity arrives with its own chart of accounts and its own way of doing things, and harmonisation requires persuading a finance team that is attached to its existing process. Meanwhile statutory filing for each entity and consolidated management reporting for the group are prepared through separate routes and then reconciled by hand, which is slow and creates an obvious place for errors to hide.

Why India Works

Harmonising a Dutch group is a sequencing exercise before it is a technology one, and it needs sustained capacity over a long period — which is what Netherlands rates make hard to fund through to completion. Working from India, we hold a consistent team across a multi-year programme, use the 09:00 to 14:30 CET overlap for the chart of accounts and intercompany decisions that need group finance present, and run migration and configuration outside Dutch hours so the programme finishes rather than stalling after the first entity.