CASE 02 · CONSTRUCTION GROUP
Many ledgers became
one live picture.
A multi-company construction group was operating through separate books, project trackers and manual intercompany reconciliation. Cyberate built the platform that connects company finance, project position and group consolidation in one real-time view.
- User type: Multi-company construction group
- System: Group Finance & PM Platform
- Core capability: Automatic consolidation
- Status: Live deployment
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THE OPERATING CONTEXT
The group had grown beyond month-end visibility.
When a construction business operates through multiple entities, each company needs its own financial and operational space. But leadership also needs a consolidated view of the whole. Without a shared system discipline, month-end becomes an archaeological exercise: ledgers are reconciled, intercompany flows are matched, and project costs are interpreted after the fact.
- Every entity had its own books: Each company operated separately, making group visibility difficult to maintain.
- Intercompany reconciliation was manual: Transactions between entities had to be matched and eliminated by hand.
- Project costs and finance were disconnected: Project-level movement did not automatically become group-level insight.
- Leadership saw history, not position: The consolidated view arrived after the decision moment had passed.
WHAT WE BUILT
Every entity runs separately — and the group sees together.
Cyberate built a multi-entity platform that allows each company to operate its own finance and project management space while rolling data into a consolidated group view. Intercompany flows are matched and eliminated automatically, and project costs post into financial visibility as work happens.
- Independent company spaces: Each entity runs its own books and projects within a shared group discipline.
- Shared chart-of-accounts discipline: Financial structure is aligned enough to support consolidation without flattening each company.
- Automatic intercompany elimination: Transactions between entities are matched and eliminated without manual month-end reconstruction.
- Live project-to-finance visibility: Project costs move into financial reporting while work is active.
- Role-based group views: Site, company and board-level users see the right altitude of information.
HOW IT WORKS
Company-level detail rolls into group-level control.
- Operate each entity: Each company continues to manage its own finance and project activity.
- Standardise the discipline: Chart structures, project coding and reporting logic are aligned enough to consolidate.
- Match intercompany flows: Transactions between entities are recognised and eliminated automatically.
- Surface the group position: Leadership sees the consolidated group position without waiting for a manual reconciliation marathon.
THE OUTCOME
Month-end stopped being archaeology.
The platform gives group leadership a live consolidated view across the internal companies. Instead of waiting for manual reconciliation to reveal what already happened, the group can see position, project exposure and financial movement while decisions still matter.
- Real-time group visibility: Leadership can see the group position across entities.
- Reduced reconciliation burden: Intercompany flows are handled by the platform discipline, not rebuilt manually every month.
- Project and finance connected: Project costs and financial views sit in the same operating model.
- A platform that grows with structure: New entities and structural changes can be absorbed without losing the group view.