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Finance Process Review & Improvement Services

Identify where your finance processes are slowing the business down, creating avoidable manual work or making financial information harder to manage. CorporateWalla can review agreed finance workflows and provide practical improvement priorities across accounting, reconciliations, close, approvals and reporting.

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What Is a Finance Process Review?

A finance process review assesses how accounting and finance activities are performed, handed off, reviewed and reported. Depending on scope, the review can examine bookkeeping workflows, reconciliations, approvals, accounts payable/receivable, month-end close, reporting, finance-system usage and documented procedures.

The outcome is typically a prioritised list of observations and improvement opportunities rather than an audit opinion or guarantee of savings.

What We Can Review

Depending on scope:

  • Bookkeeping workflow
  • Accounts payable process
  • Accounts receivable process
  • Bank reconciliation process
  • Payment workflow
  • Expense approval process
  • Customer/vendor master process
  • Journal-entry workflow
  • Month-end close
  • Financial reporting workflow
  • Management reporting
  • Finance dashboards
  • Intercompany process
  • Accounting-system usage
  • Spreadsheet dependencies
  • Finance SOPs
  • Approval and review responsibilities
  • Exception and escalation processes

Review Dimensions

Process

How transactions and finance activities move from initiation to recording, review and reporting.

People

Who prepares, reviews, approves and owns each process.

Systems

Which accounting systems, spreadsheets and other tools are used and where handoffs occur.

Controls

Where approvals, reconciliations, reviews and supporting evidence are required.

Reporting

How financial information is converted into recurring management reports and decision support.

Documentation

Whether key procedures, ownership and exceptions are documented clearly enough for consistent execution.

Typical Deliverables

Depending on scope:

  • Current-state process map
  • Finance workflow assessment
  • Process observations
  • Responsibility matrix
  • Process-risk observations
  • Reconciliation and close observations
  • Manual-work assessment
  • Reporting-process observations
  • Technology/process improvement opportunities
  • SOP/documentation gaps
  • Prioritised improvement roadmap
  • Quick-win recommendations
  • Longer-term improvement priorities
  • Management presentation or findings report

Examples of Improvement Opportunities

A review may identify opportunities such as:

  • Standardising month-end close checklists
  • Reducing duplicate spreadsheet entry
  • Clarifying approval ownership
  • Introducing consistent reconciliation schedules
  • Improving customer/vendor master controls
  • Defining escalation procedures
  • Standardising management-reporting templates
  • Improving handoffs between bookkeeping and management review
  • Documenting recurring finance procedures
  • Automating suitable repetitive tasks after the process itself is stabilised

What the Review Does Not Automatically Include

A finance-process review does not automatically include:

  • Statutory audit
  • Tax audit
  • Forensic investigation
  • Legal review
  • Independent assurance
  • Software implementation
  • Custom software development
  • Accounting data migration
  • Full finance-function outsourcing
  • Tax or legal opinions

These can be separately scoped where appropriate.

Using the Findings

The findings can be converted into a practical improvement roadmap. Typical sequencing may be:

  • Fix high-impact data or process issues.
  • Clarify ownership and review responsibilities.
  • Standardise recurring processes.
  • Document important procedures.
  • Strengthen appropriate controls.
  • Automate suitable repetitive work.
  • Establish recurring management reporting.

The sequence should depend on the client's actual systems, people, data quality and business priorities.

Common Problems This Review Can Help Surface

  • Too many manual handoffs
  • Finance processes depend on one person
  • Close procedures are inconsistent
  • Reconciliations are completed without a clear review layer
  • Management reports require repeated manual preparation
  • Approval responsibilities are unclear
  • Accounting-system features are underused
  • Finance SOPs are missing or outdated
  • Duplicate spreadsheets create conflicting information
  • Process improvements are made without a clear priority order

Pricing

Finance process review fees are scope-based. Pricing depends on the number of processes, entities, systems, stakeholders and depth of analysis.

Finance process review fees are customised to the processes and systems included in the assessment. Contact CorporateWalla for a scope-based proposal.

Transparent 3-tier pricing

Pick the speed and depth that matches your need. Same quality, same CA team — only the timeline changes.

Focused Review

Custom quote

Timeline: Quoted on the single process reviewed

One process, e.g. month-end close, AP, AR or reporting
Current-state workflow mapping
Process observations
Quick-win recommendations
Multi-process prioritised roadmap
Implementation roadmap
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Full Review

Custom quote

Timeline: Quoted on processes, systems and stakeholders

Multiple finance workflows in scope
Current-state process map and responsibility matrix
Reconciliation, close and reporting observations
Manual-work and SOP/documentation gap assessment
Prioritised improvement roadmap
Management findings report

Review & Roadmap

Custom quote

Timeline: Quoted on entities and depth of analysis

Everything in Full Review
Multiple entities and intercompany process
Technology/process improvement opportunities
Management discussion of findings
Implementation roadmap sequencing
Software implementation or audit opinion

Every price above is a professional fee, excluding GST and government charges. 50% on delivery.

Finance process review fees are customised to the processes and systems included in the assessment. Pricing depends on the number of processes, entities, systems, stakeholders and depth of analysis.

How it works

Step 1

Scope definition

Identify processes, entities, periods and systems included in the review.

Step 2

Current-state discovery

Understand how the selected processes operate today.

Step 3

Workflow mapping

Document key steps, handoffs, approvals and review points.

Step 4

Issue identification

Identify bottlenecks, duplication, unclear ownership and process inconsistencies within scope.

Step 5

Prioritisation

Classify observations by potential impact, dependency and implementation effort.

Step 6

Improvement recommendations

Propose practical process, documentation, control or technology improvements.

Step 7

Management discussion

Review findings and priorities with the relevant stakeholders.

Step 8

Implementation roadmap

Where separately scoped, provide sequencing for agreed improvements.

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Documents required

Finance organisation chart
Process documents and SOPs
Accounting-system details
Sample workflows
Trial balance or selected reports
Month-end close checklist
Bank reconciliation process
AR/AP workflows
Approval matrix
Reporting packs
Finance dashboards
Existing control documentation
Sample spreadsheets
Known process issues or management concerns

Why CorporateWalla®?

Six Review Dimensions

Process, people, systems, controls, reporting and documentation are each examined within the agreed scope.

Prioritised Findings

Observations classified by potential impact, dependency and implementation effort, with quick wins separated from longer-term priorities.

Focused or Broad

Review a single process such as month-end close or AP, or a wider set of finance workflows.

Practical Sequencing

Findings convert into a roadmap that fixes data and process issues before automating repetitive work.

Frequently asked questions

It is a structured assessment of selected finance workflows, responsibilities, systems, controls and reporting processes to identify practical improvement opportunities.

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