Notium
Reviewed
Oct 2026
The one page on Group Reporting
The sheet we hand out on the stand. Statutory and management consolidation on SAP, repeatable to a date and auditable as it runs.
The first person to test your consolidation should not be your auditor.
What you are seeing: The printed A5 sheet for Group Reporting, as handed out at UKISUG Connect 2026.
Your close works. What does it cost you each time?
Group close is the one finance process where someone else sets the deadline. Most groups meet it by holding the hard parts outside the system: an intercompany matrix in a spreadsheet, a currency adjustment someone remembers to make. Done well, but not repeatable, and resting on a few people who know where the exceptions are.
What moves into the system
- Group structure and ownership, including each acquisition.
- Intercompany matching and elimination, reconciled continuously.
- Currency translation, applied by rule rather than by memory.
- The close calendar, with tasks owned and tracked.
- An audit trail produced by the process, not reconstructed.
- One group structure, reused for planning and reporting.
Built on SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere. On SAP BPC today? A structured transition to SAP Group Reporting is part of the service.
Sound familiar?
- The intercompany matrix lives at least partly in spreadsheets.
- The close works because particular people know the exceptions.
- Every acquisition adds a manual step that never gets removed.
- Your auditors ask for the same reconstruction every year.
How it goes
- Structural read. Entities, currencies, what consolidates where today, and where the manual effort concentrates.
- Design. Group structure, intercompany rules, translation and the close calendar agreed with your group finance team.
- Build. Consolidation in SAP Group Reporting, as a new build or as a structured move from BPC.
- Parallel close. Old and new run side by side, reconciled to the penny and documented, before you rely on it.
- Own it. Your team runs the close. Accounting policy and disclosure judgement stay with you and your auditors.
Why Notium
The first person to test your consolidation should not be your auditor.
- A parallel close first. We run a full close alongside yours before anything goes live. Reconciled, documented, and signed off by your people.
- Process, not policy. We build the process. The accounting judgement stays with your group and your auditors, and we say so early, in writing.
- Built once, used again. The same group structure serves Seamless Planning and reporting, and is the group view an assistant can later read.
A multi entity UK group: BPC moved to SAP Group Reporting, intercompany eliminated in the system, parallel close reconciled to the penny.
Where to start
Start with a close review. A short structural read: how many entities and currencies, what you consolidate in today, when the next close is. You get a view of where the manual effort is concentrating.
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