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Finance Process Digitalization.

Process digitalization and automation in accounting: digitalize, standardize and automate accounting and reporting processes. Hands-on, with an eye for efficiency and compliance.

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Overview

When accounting processes are manual, slow or error-prone, we digitalize them. We digitalize processes, standardize workflows and automate recurring tasks.

With an eye for efficiency and compliance. And with structures the team carries on independently.

Situations

Typical situations for a digitalization mandate in accounting

Process digitalization in accounting comes in when accounting and reporting processes are too manual, media breaks cost time, or standards and automation are missing. With operational responsibility, not outside consulting.
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Typical triggers: a system rollout or ERP migration, a digital invoice workflow that needs building, or processes that first need standardizing before automation.
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This topic is closely linked to AI in the enterprise. More on our AI transformation page and at our venture Navyra, in which Loretta is a partner:

What we take on in process digitalization

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Analysis of existing accounting processes and identification of digitalization and automation potential.

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Building digital invoice workflows (purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash) and replacing manual media breaks.

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Standardization of workflows as a basis for automation and the meaningful use of AI.

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Support for system rollouts and ERP migrations in accounting, from concept to go-live.

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Automation of recurring tasks in accounting and reporting, with an eye for efficiency and compliance.

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Documented, digitalized processes that the internal team carries on independently after the mandate.

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Reference mandates in process digitalization

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Live Nation Entertainment · Interim Accounting Team Lead

Functional leadership of a 20-person accounting team across accounts receivable, accounts payable and artist accounting (Oracle EBS), during an ongoing transformation phase. Team stabilized, processes analyzed and restructured.

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Wabtec (Stemmann, PanTrac, Annax) · Interim Senior Finance Specialist

Across three group entities, developed and embedded best practices and reporting standards, measurably improving financial transparency and process accuracy. International receivables management with nine-figure turnover.

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Stemmann-Technik reference: “Outstanding expertise”

The Interim Head of Finance confirms: thorough analysis and optimization of accounting and reporting processes, introduction of best practices and reporting standards that lastingly improved workflows and strengthened confidence in reporting.

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Result · digitalized, lasting processes

The result is standardized, digitalized processes with documented standards that the team runs independently.

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Managing Partner · Senior Interim Finance Leadership

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Clarity in numbers. Structure in processes. Leadership with impact.

Loretta Schneiders brings over 15 years of experience in accounting, shared services and finance leadership. She has supported system changes, ERP migrations and the digitalization of invoice and reporting processes across several groups.
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Operational depth is no compromise here, it is her advantage: she knows the reality inside the process from her own experience and digitalizes better workflows from it than someone who only looks from the outside.

What references consistently confirm: fast onboarding, measurable results and digitalized processes that last. Communication in six languages and on equal footing with international teams and hubs.
  • Over 15 years of experience in accounting, shared services and finance leadership.
  • Leadership of finance and accounting teams of up to 20 people.
  • Experience with system rollouts and ERP migrations in accounting.
  • ERP expertise: SAP FI/CO, S/4HANA, Oracle EBS, Navision D365, abas ERP, Datev.

Process digitalization and automation

Digitalization of accounting and reporting processes, building digital workflows and automating recurring tasks.

Process restructuring

Analysis, restructuring and lasting optimization of accounting processes, from as-is analysis to embedded implementation.

Reporting and closings

Building reporting standards, support with monthly and annual closings under HGB and IFRS, receivables and payables under control.

Sustainable handover

Documented process standards that carry on after the mandate and make the team independently capable.

More on this topic

More on this topic

Case study

KHD Humboldt Wedag: payables processes digitalised

Guide

S/4HANA migration in accounts payableE-invoicing 2027: what accounting needs to prepare nowPreventing bank detail fraud and payment fraud in accounts payableSpeeding up the month-end close: the key levers

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions: Finance Process Digitalization

Which accounting processes are best suited to automation?

Recurring tasks with high volumes and clear rules: incoming invoices, approvals, payment matching, dunning and parts of reporting, in other words the workflows in purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash. The precondition is a standardised process, because automation does not improve a disorganised workflow. A typical starting point is accounts payable with its manual breaks between systems.

Vacancies in accounting: automate instead of rehiring?

Often both are needed, but the question is worth asking. When finance positions remain vacant, we examine which routine tasks can be standardised and automated, so that the existing team can concentrate on the closing, exceptions and controls. Loretta Schneiders provides interim leadership and keeps day-to-day business stable while the new workflows are being set up.

How does digitalised accounting stay compliant with GoBD and internal control requirements?

By building controls in from the start: clear approval rules, segregation of duties, traceable documents and process documentation that holds up after the mandate. For us, efficiency and compliance belong together. The final assessment of whether procedures meet legal requirements, such as the German GoBD bookkeeping rules, remains the job of auditors and tax advisers.

How does the closing stay stable during the changeover?

Through someone who is responsible for day-to-day business while the processes are being redesigned. At KHD Humboldt Wedag, Loretta Schneiders took over accounts payable with a nine-figure annual volume without onboarding time and, in parallel, digitalised invoice approval in SAP S/4HANA using VIM. The KHD Humboldt Wedag case study shows how this worked in detail.

What is navyra.finance, and do I have to use it?

navyra.finance is part of navyra, a venture of Schneiders Ventures in which Loretta Schneiders is a partner. It automates accounting, controlling and reporting processes directly in the ERP, for example in purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash and fast close. In an interim mandate it is never a must, always an option: commissioned separately and disclosed openly.

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