Process improvement for finance teams

A faster close. Sharper forecasts. Less manual work.

Fonsz helps finance teams improve their month-end close, forecasting and reporting. We reduce manual work, use AI for specific tasks and make sure the software supports the way your team works.

15+years in EPM
40+implementations delivered
Sound familiar?

Your team is smart enough. The process is the problem.

Most finance teams spend a lot of time collecting, re-entering and checking numbers.

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The close takes too long

The month-end close takes ten working days. Only then can the analysis begin.

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Forecasting by email

Multiple versions of the same Excel files. Assumptions no one can trace.

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Everything is manual

Collecting, reconciling and formatting data leaves little time to analyze results and support decisions.

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AI never gets past the pilot

There's been a pilot. You have a license. The day-to-day work hasn't changed.

Our approach

Process first, then AI, then software

We start with one process, make measurable improvements and build on what works.

01 · Process scan

Which steps take too much time?

In two weeks, we map out one core process: month-end close, forecasting or reporting.

  • Cycle times and manual steps
  • Data flows and Excel workarounds
  • A concrete improvement plan with a business case
02 · Redesign with AI

Automate routine tasks

We use AI to check and reconcile figures, summarize information and prepare data.

  • Reconciliations and checks run automatically
  • Draft explanations for variances
  • Data preparation without manual work
03 · Software & adoption

It has to keep working

Where Excel reaches its limits, we implement a planning platform and train your team to use it independently.

  • Implementation of UNA, Vena and others
  • Training as you work with the system
  • Support that helps your team become self-sufficient
Workshops

Put AI to work in your day-to-day tasks

Your team spends one day working with its own figures and processes. By the end of the day, your team will have working AI workflows for recurring monthly tasks.

The workshop is available as a standalone session. For many clients, it's their first experience of working with Fonsz.

For your team · up to 12 participants

AI for finance professionals

1 day · at your office · your own data and examples
  • What AI can and can't do in finance today
  • Hands-on: close checks, commentary and analysis
  • Working safely: data, governance and review
  • Build an AI workflow you can use straight away
See the program
€ 2,950 per team (excl. VAT)
Software

Software that fits your process

We choose software to suit your process. Sometimes a better Excel setup is enough; sometimes a dedicated planning platform is the better fit.

Excel + Power BI optimize what's already there
UNA planning & EPM platform
Vena planning in a familiar Excel environment
AI tools Claude, Copilot & custom solutions
Full disclosure: UNA is our own platform. We always say so upfront and recommend it only when it's demonstrably the best choice. Depending on your needs, we may recommend another platform or simply Excel.
Results

Measurable, or it doesn't count

“I'm a big fan of this project, and I'm looking to invest in it because I see the value in it. The team tells me nothing but positive things about what it's been like working with you guys and the responsiveness.”

CFO, international media organization (US)
3× more often

For an international media organization, we replaced an Excel file that had 33 versions per quarter with one planning model. The client's own team now prepares a monthly cash-flow forecast. The model covers five years and recalculates changes in seconds.

114 → 1

At a US software company, only the CFO could work with a 114-tab Excel workbook. The company now uses a single planning model that reconciles with the accounting records down to the cent. Testing a changed assumption used to take half a day; now it takes a few seconds.

200+

Sales staff at a publicly listed industrial group use one forecasting platform worldwide. They run 24 forecast cycles a year. New data is loaded automatically each day. The platform has been in use since 2019.

Sander Goudsblom
About Fonsz

Helping finance teams improve their processes since 2006.

I'm Sander Goudsblom. Since 2006, I've worked on planning processes and EPM platforms. I have experience as a consultant, as the person responsible for planning within a finance team, and in pre-sales for a planning software provider. That experience helps me identify where finance teams spend too much time and which tasks AI can support or automate while keeping the team in control.

More about Sander and Fonsz

Where could your finance team save time? Let's talk.

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