The Challenge
ARA Nigeria's finance team spent over 80 hours per month consolidating financial reports from 8 subsidiaries via manual Excel workbooks. The process was error-prone, slow, and prevented leadership from accessing timely insights for decision-making.
Our Solution
RWDS implemented a Power BI-based financial consolidation platform fed by an SAP BW/4HANA data model, replacing all manual Excel workflows. Automated data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) pipelines ensured reports were always current. A corporate training cohort (12 participants) was run to transfer knowledge to the internal team.
Results & Impact
₦12M
Estimated annual savings in staff hours
80hrs
Monthly reporting time eliminated
8
Subsidiaries connected
12
Finance staff trained
“Our month-end close used to be a nightmare. RWDS turned it into a non-event. Leadership now has the numbers they need before breakfast on day 1.”
CFO
ARA Nigeria