Environment & WaterITSM & GovernanceBusiness Applications

Financial Process Security

Context

The client operates in a context of information system transformation, driven by modernization, governance, and IT environment security challenges. The mission was carried out for the IT department of a major environmental services company, covering both IT teams (Customer, Corporate, BI, Operations) and business departments (Accounting, Controlling, Billing). Avaliance’s intervention was part of a program aimed at securing financial processes and strengthening coordination between IT and business teams, specifically around the E-Invoicing program and financial closing processes.

Challenges

The client needed to address several structuring challenges to secure its financial processes and strengthen regulatory compliance.

Key priorities included compliance with the French E-Invoicing reform, stabilization of monthly and annual financial closing processes, and implementation of robust governance between IT and business departments. It was also necessary to ensure rigorous execution of IT audits on O2C (Order to Cash) and P2P (Procure to Pay) processes while limiting operational risks.

Avaliance Intervention

Achievements

As part of this mission, Avaliance contributed to securing and managing financial processes through:
  • steering of the E-Invoicing program scoping, including O2C/P2P process review and PDP selection

  • structuring and management of monthly and annual financial closing in coordination with IT and Finance

  • analysis and resolution of data discrepancies between billing systems, Finance ERP, and reporting tools

  • implementation of operational governance including pre-closing committees and incident tracking

  • steering and coordination of remediation actions resulting from IT audits and auditor controls

Focus Areas

E-Invoicing (PDP)
Financial Closing
IT Audit & Control
ERP Finance
O2C & P2P Processes
Business-IT Governance

Results

Avaliance’s intervention enabled the client to achieve the following outcomes:
1
secured critical financial processes related to billing and financial closing
2
improved coordination and communication between IT and business departments
3
establishment of structured operational governance for financial closing cycles
4
readiness and preparation for compliance with the French E-Invoicing reform
5
improved tracking and faster remediation of IT audit findings identified by auditors
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