ERP Solutions for Business Groups & Conglomerates for UK Business Groups

Market Landscape

Acquisitive British groups accumulate systems faster than they consolidate them. A UK group that has bought four businesses over a decade typically runs four finance systems, four charts of accounts and four sets of processes, held together at month end by an experienced group accountant and a very large spreadsheet. The spreadsheet works, which is why it survives, and it is also the single largest concentration of risk in the group's reporting.

Key Challenges

The cost shows up as time rather than as a line item. Month end takes two or three weeks in many UK groups, intercompany balances are reconciled by email between finance teams who each believe their own figure, and by the time consolidated management information reaches the board it describes a period that is already well past. Statutory and management reporting are prepared separately and reconciled manually because no single system holds both. Meanwhile each acquired UK entity retains its own local practices, so even apparently simple group-wide changes require four separate conversations and four separate implementations.

Why India Works

Harmonising a British group is a sequencing problem before it is a technology problem, and doing it entity by entity while the group keeps trading demands sustained capacity over a long period. That is precisely what UK day rates of £80 to £120 an hour make hard to fund. Working from India, we can hold a consistent team across a multi-year programme, use the 9am to 1:30pm overlap for the finance conversations that determine chart of accounts and intercompany rules, and keep the migration work moving outside British hours, so the programme finishes rather than stalling after the first entity.