Client: Event production company

Business challenge:  With a large and growing fan base and worldwide brand, a new territory expansion and a new venue group acquisition, both required new business entity configurations and setups within the Company’s ERP system to support the respective accounting and financial processes. Existing staff were busy on their day-to-day finance work and deliverables, were not professional project managers, and the shorter-term nature challenged them to identify internal staff to help execute these projects per the business’ quick expansion timelines.

Client: Live music event production company

Business challenge:  The growing armies of seasonal workers required to execute the Company’s multiple annual large festival events was significantly increasing the processing requirements of the necessary per diem expense requests.  The existing Excel-based process was not able to keep up with the growth, and without an automated request submission>approval>payment processing platform, the department could not scale to the needs.

Client: Live music production company

Business challenge:  With a growing event slate and limited staff, the ability to financially evaluate their large scale, complex events with precision during the very tight accounting close cycle proved challenging.  Without automation, the time and effort required to aggregate and prepare the data took away from the value-add analysis and intelligence gathering processes, along with not optimizing the talent and value of the FPA staff.

Client: Live music production company

Business challenge:  Achieving near-term efficiency goals while their large enterprise software solution was making it’s way through their lengthy approval and planning processes proved challenging to the Finance department.  Without a central repository and a budget to invest in a near-term solution, over 25K vendor invoices flooded staff inboxes for processing.  Many were lost or forgotten resulting in late payments and strained vendor relationships.

Client: Film and TV Production Company

Business challenge: Across numerous geographic locations, Sales teams did not have a consistent customer-facing bidding process. Along with no central repository of critical deal metadata, the documentation was not aligned among teams which resulted in inconsistent client experiences and an increased risk of unprofitable deal structures.

Client: Media and Entertainment Company

Business challenge: Accounts payable process was slow and costly.  Unexpected invoices created budget/forecast variances, which were backwards looking and therefore limited proactive cost containment. Vendors were increasingly unhappy and demanding which impacted the business’s ability to negotiate favorably.

Client: Production rental and services company

Business challenge: Ineffective business development and sales strategies; no customer and sales data-driven insights or intelligence for them to tap into to support and improve.

Client: Music event promotor and distributor

Business challenge: Significant legal group workload challenges, manual operations and a lack of a central contract repository for access by legal and other company groups.

Client: Music event production

Business challenge: Manual, time consuming and error prone budgeting and forecasting processes for large and complex music festivals