Create capacity. Improve financial visibility. Support growth.
Use AI to create capacity and support growth
GAP helps organisations put AI to practical use alongside the right finance systems. Whether you need faster proposals, less repetitive administration or more timely management information, we start with the work that needs to improve and build a clear case for change.
AI Opportunity Review
Your need: You want to understand where AI could make a useful difference and what is worth investing in.
What you receive: A review of selected workflows, current systems and available information; a prioritised opportunity assessment; a cost and benefit appraisal; and a practical plan for one pilot.
AI Workflow Pilot
Your need: A specific bottleneck is slowing delivery, absorbing capacity or delaying decisions.
What you receive: One defined and tested application, such as proposal preparation, invoice information extraction or reporting support, with documented checks, user guidance and an assessment against an agreed baseline. Technical configuration and integration are scoped with suitable specialists.
AI and Systems Improvement Partner
Your need: You want continuing support to help people use the tools and sustain improvement.
What you receive: A monthly improvement plan, review of costs and benefits, supplier coordination and a progress report. Scope, included time and specialist support are agreed before work begins.
Why GAP
Established in 2001, GAP combines finance leadership, international implementation, transformation and systems experience. Our work includes establishing overseas operations, integrating businesses, delivering carve-outs and improving finance processes. We connect the commercial case with the practical work needed to make change happen.
GAP brings experienced CFO judgement, transformation leadership and practical implementation disciplines to AI-enabled growth. We lead the commercial case, process design, controls, adoption and benefits assurance, with technical specialists matched to the assignment. Recommendations remain independent of software suppliers.
Explore AI growth in a service business. These research-based illustrative applications show how a programme would be structured and measured.
Finance systems selection, implementation and improvement
Independent finance systems selection, implementation and improvement
When GAP is a good fit
For CFOs and finance leaders deciding whether to improve or replace a system, select a supplier, recover an implementation or strengthen reporting and controls. GAP provides client-side financial judgement and delivery leadership, with specialist technical skills assigned where required.
Your finance system should give you reliable information and support the way your organisation works. If reporting takes too long, processes depend on spreadsheets or a replacement is being considered, GAP helps you make a sound decision and carry it through.
Start with the problem and the business case
We examine processes, reporting, controls, data and the demands on your people before recommending technology. The right answer may be a new system, better use of the current one or a simpler change to the way work is done.
Select a solution that fits
Define requirements, distinguish essentials from preferences and compare a practical shortlist. We help evaluate demonstrations against real scenarios, implementation capacity, integration needs and the full cost of ownership. You receive a documented recommendation and a delivery plan.
Lead implementation with visible control
GAP provides finance and programme leadership across process design, data readiness, supplier coordination, testing, training and transition. We work with your team and specialist technical partners, with clear responsibilities and decision points. We help challenge scope, manage risks and keep the intended benefits visible.
Improve the systems you already have
Strengthen reporting, automate avoidable manual work, improve reconciliations and controls, and connect finance with operational information. We focus on changes your team can sustain and measures that show whether the investment is delivering.
Advice independent of the software supplier
GAP is supplier-neutral. We do not take software reseller commissions. Recommendations are based on your requirements, resources and business case. Software licences and specialist technical services are agreed separately with the relevant supplier; GAP’s advice and delivery fees are agreed with you.
Experience grounded in delivery
GAP brings CFO and transformation expertise to systems decisions, connecting technology with finance operations, control and organisational change. Our track record includes regulated-utility systems and billing assurance and multi-entity automation and control. This capability is also informed by our founder’s earlier experience of SAP-enabled integration and finance standardisation, before GAP was established.
Our not-for-profit experience also includes connecting contract and service information, rostering, finance systems and business-intelligence reporting to improve income recovery and service performance. See the not-for-profit examples.
Finance outcomes tested in delivery
Billing integration in a regulated utility
GAP provided client-side finance transformation leadership and independent challenge across a major billing-system integration. The work connected technology readiness with revenue, aged debt, accruals, reconciliations, audit evidence and control ownership, supporting evidence-based go/no-go decisions.
Read the systems and billing assurance case study.
Automation across 15 companies
GAP led record-to-report transformation across a 15-company organisation, redesigning processes and reconciliation controls before introducing technology-enabled reconciliation. The tool could automate approximately 80% of the reconciliation population, allowing finance to focus on exceptions, judgement and resolution.
Read the automation and control case study.
A defined starting engagement
Finance systems improve-or-replace assessment. We examine reporting, processes, controls, data, integration needs, users and the current system. You receive a documented view of the gaps, improvement and replacement options, priorities, indicative cost considerations and a recommended next step. If selection is justified, we agree requirements, scoring, real-work demonstration scenarios and full-cost comparisons before evaluating suppliers.
Implementation support connects data readiness, testing, controls, training and go-live decisions. Regular support can cover reporting improvements, process ownership, supplier oversight and benefits review. Specialist configuration and technical integration are assigned to the appropriate delivery partners.
Practical questions about systems and AI decisions
Do we have to replace our finance system?
No. We assess whether better processes, data, configuration or user capability can resolve the main gaps. Replacement is compared with realistic improvement options and the full cost of delivery.
What makes an AI pilot worth continuing?
A defined workflow, approved information, a named human reviewer and evidence against an agreed baseline. Time saved, accuracy, exceptions, checking effort and ongoing cost all matter.
Can GAP provide continuing independent oversight?
Yes. Regular support can review supplier delivery, reporting, controls, adoption and benefits. GAP remains independent of software suppliers; technical configuration and integration are scoped with suitable specialists.
Read the finance systems improve-or-replace guide and see multi-entity automation and control in practice.
Established experience. Specialist depth.
Established in 2001, GAP combines a track record of hands-on delivery with an established specialist network. Our capability brings together finance leadership, international establishment, transformation and independent systems expertise, informed by PLC, private-equity and not-for-profit assignments. Specialist skills are brought together around the needs of each engagement, with clear responsibilities and agreed outputs.
We draw on specialist relationships developed through implementation programmes and interim assignments, supported by a broad professional network. Finance, local accounting and tax, legal, employment, security and technology expertise can be brought together around the assignment. We agree the delivery team, availability, responsibilities and fees with you, keeping executive decisions and implementation closely connected.
Clear responsibilities. Visible delivery. Lasting capability.
An agreed delivery team. GAP brings together the leadership and specialist skills required for the assignment. Roles, responsibilities, availability and decision authority are agreed before work starts. The GAP 6×6 provides a shared method for diagnosis, implementation and measuring results.
A clear commercial agreement. The proposal sets out deliverables, client inputs, time, fees, specialist costs and decision points. A focused review can be agreed first; further phases proceed by agreement.
Responsible decisions and lasting capability. We consider financial value alongside the effects on people, services and resources. Benefits are assessed against an agreed baseline, and training, process ownership and handover are part of delivery.
Work with the team you trust. GAP works alongside your existing finance team, accountants, lawyers and technology partners, bringing additional expertise where needed.
A practical starting point
Start with a focused finance systems review. We agree the scope and fee in advance, then establish the priority issues, available options and the most useful next step. Support can be a defined selection or implementation assignment, or regular help with reporting, processes, users and supplier oversight.