Expertise
Finance.
Your finance department deserves better than chasing its own figures. We put SAP in the service of finance within the framework of the revised SYSCOHADA: chart of accounts, financial statements, closing, multi-company consolidation across UEMOA, treasury, tax, management reporting and planning. So that finance moves from producing figures to using them.
The problem
Finance produces figures instead of making them speak.
Closings that drag on, manual reconciliations between general and cost accounting, SYSCOHADA financial statements rebuilt in spreadsheets at every deadline, consolidation of subsidiaries spread across several UEMOA countries done by hand, a treasury position in CFA francs and foreign currency recomposed every week. And a tax regime, VAT at 18% first and foremost, whose rules must be right in the system before they are right in the return. The finance department spends its energy securing the production of figures, when general management expects analyses, scenarios and trade-offs from it. This is not a competence problem. It is a financial architecture problem.
Our approach
Rebuild the finance function from the process.
Diagnose
Mapping of processes, from journal entry to financial statement, of the closing and of reporting flows: where time is lost, where figures diverge, where controls rely on people rather than on the system.
Design
Definition of the target accounting model on SAP: chart of accounts aligned with the revised SYSCOHADA, reconciliation of general and cost accounting at source, valuation rules, analysis dimensions, structure of companies and countries.
Equip
Implementation of performance tracking: reporting in the SAP core, financial statements produced from the system, connected planning and forecasting, in the standard, with custom code reduced to the strict minimum.
Anchor
New closing routines, automated controls, training of accounting and management control teams: the transformation is secured when the next closing goes better than the previous one.
The scope
Eight workstreams of the finance function.
Each workstream has its processes, its decisions and its SAP building blocks. We run them together or separately, depending on your starting point.
- SYSCOHADA chart of accounts
A chart of accounts compliant with the revised SYSCOHADA and adapted to your activity, a universal journal that reconciles general and cost accounting from the entry itself, analysis dimensions that serve steering.
- OHADA financial statements
Balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and notes produced from the system, in the format expected by the statutory auditor and the tax administration.
- Closing
Standardised, automated and monitored closing tasks: accounts available earlier, teams analysing variances instead of looking for them.
- UEMOA consolidation
Consolidation of companies spread across several countries of the union: a single currency, distinct national tax rules and obligations, intercompany flows to eliminate, group reporting articulated with the closing of each entity.
- Treasury
Consolidated cash position in CFA francs and foreign currency, cash forecasts, bank and payment management, hedging of imports: treasury is steered in the system, not in a spreadsheet.
- Tax & VAT
VAT at the standard 18% rate, special regimes, withholding taxes and other Senegalese obligations carried by the configuration: returns prepared from the entries, not reconstructed after the fact.
- Management reporting
Management reporting in the SAP core and SAP Analytics Cloud or Power BI dashboards: every new need becomes a configuration, not an extraction project.
- EPM & planning
Budget, rolling forecasts and simulations connected to actuals, with SAP Analytics Cloud: the plan is confronted with reality continuously, not just once a year.
The technology
The foundation of your finance.
We mobilise the building blocks that matter for the finance function, sized to the company. Above all, we know how to make them work together.
SAP S/4HANA Finance
A single line item for general accounting, cost accounting and management tracking: the figure is right from the source. Multi-company, multi-country, multi-currency, with SYSCOHADA statements produced from the core.
SAP Analytics Cloud · Power BI · Tableau
Management reporting, budget planning, rolling forecasts and simulations on the real data of the core, with no extraction or reprocessing. We choose the tool according to your application landscape.
SAP Business One · Odoo
For companies outside the scope of SAP S/4HANA: SYSCOHADA accounting integrated with sales, purchasing and inventory, deployed in stages, with the same demands on the quality of the figures.
The result
A finance function that sheds light.
- Closing
Standardised and automated closing tasks: fewer sleepless nights at month end, accounts available earlier and OHADA financial statements ready without rebuilding.
- Steering
A single figure shared between accounting, management control and general management. Meetings are about decisions, no longer about reconciling spreadsheets.
- Group
A consolidation of UEMOA subsidiaries done in the system, with traced eliminations and group reporting available on time.
- Treasury
A position known every day, in CFA francs and foreign currency, and forecasts that anticipate import and repayment deadlines instead of discovering them.
- Teams
Repetitive tasks (data entry, reconciliations, reminders) leave the daily routine; accounting profiles evolve towards analysis and internal advisory.
- Leadership
The finance department becomes again what it should be: the partner of strategy, able to cost a scenario in days rather than weeks.
Finance diagnosis
Let's talk about your next closing.
A first conversation with an AGILICIS finance consultant to situate your finance function: process maturity, accounting architecture, reporting quality.
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