Client Context

A finance team operating on recurring close cycles, requiring timely, consistent reporting and defensible numbers.

Understanding the Challenge

Business Needs

Financial reporting relied on manual exports and reconciliation steps. This slowed close activities and created risk of inconsistent reporting across stakeholders.

Technical Challenges

If mishandled, the system would create faster reporting with less reliability, which is unacceptable in finance.

  • API extraction patterns needed to respect limits and ensure completeness.

  • Financial data required validation and traceability back to source.

  • Transformations needed to preserve accounting meaning, not just shape data.

Solution Architecture

Structured Extraction

A structured ingestion pipeline extracted data from Sage Intacct via API and landed it in a centralized data store. Curated financial tables were modeled for reporting consumption.

Curated Reporting

Power BI consumed curated structures designed around financial reporting patterns, with refresh sequencing aligned to close timelines.

Risk-first design

Designed against failure modes

Over-transforming data into overly abstract models that obscure traceability. The design preserved clear mapping back to Intacct entities.

Partial extracts
Mismatch between ledger and reporting
Unexplainable report numbers
Stack that guards against them
Sage API
Data Warehouse
Power BI
SQL Server
Analysis Services
SSIS / ADF

Implementation
Approach

Traceability and correctness over aggressive transformation complexity.

01

Profiled required objects and validated extraction completeness.

02

Implemented curated tables aligned to reporting requirements and reconciliation steps.

03

Integrated reporting and validated outputs against finance expectations.

04

Operationalized refresh and monitoring to fit close processes.

The Strategic Tradeoff

Prioritized traceability and correctness over aggressive transformation complexity.

Outcomes and
Impact

Efficiency

Reduced manual extraction and preparation effort.

Confidence

Improved confidence in reporting consistency during close cycles.

Access

Faster access to structured financial views without ad hoc manipulation.

The Bottom Line

Transparency is
Value

Finance reporting needs to be explainable. This approach reduced effort without sacrificing defensibility.

Success Story

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