Governance

Replacing manual sign-offs with controlled workflows

Control framework

Manual confirmations replaced by structured workflows and real-time consistency checks across every submission.

Existing
The challenge
The group planning and IFRS modelling team struggled to coordinate planning across business units and group functions. Manual sign-offs, fragmented controls and little visibility into discrepancies between submissions weakened governance, while underwriting, cost planning and macroeconomic shifts pressed on the timeline.
As built
What we built
- A governance framework built inside the group planning tool on Foundry, digitising and automating the key control processes
- Manual confirmations replaced by structured workflows; real-time consistency checks across business-unit submissions and the central repositories
- Tailored quality validations giving contributors instant feedback, on a unified data model that consolidates every upstream input
In production
The impact
- Strong governance through automated compliance and control processes
- Data integrity improved by real-time validation between the planning tool and the finance repository
- Planning cycles accelerated and stakeholders given visibility; the planning tool is now the golden source for downstream systems
Golden source
for every downstream system

The same problem elsewhere

The same controls apply to any process signed off by email: month-end close, quality releases, regulatory submissions, grant approvals.

Insurance & reinsurance: Group planning submissions reconciled and signed off by email across business units.
Manufacturing & engineering: Quality and release sign-offs that live in inboxes rather than a controlled workflow.
Healthcare & life sciences: Clinical and operational data submissions confirmed by hand before they reach the central record.
Public sector: Departmental returns checked manually against the central figures before publication.

Bring us the version of this you are living

Tell us where your programme stands, and we will say whether the same approach would work for it.

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