Group Finance teams face increasing pressure for month end reporting to be delivered in shorter and shorter timescales. Financial numbers must be reliable and survive more thorough scrutiny from increasingly aggressive regulators and stakeholders. Board packs are becoming the size of small novels with Risk, KPI and other data being collated from spreadsheets and diverse systems. The need for a shorter time to close is exacerbated by increasing workload and the need to demonstrate thoroughness and proof of process in how numbers were derived.