Most ERP implementations are run by IT or a vendor. They configure the system. Nobody owns the numbers. A finance-led implementation puts a CFO in charge of the project — and delivers a system that your finance function can actually rely on.
An ERP system is, at its core, a financial system. It records transactions, manages inventory valuations, drives the general ledger, and produces the numbers the business runs on. When a vendor or IT team runs the implementation without a finance lead, the result is a system that works technically but produces unreliable data.
Chart of accounts gets set up wrong. Inventory costing method does not match the business model. Reporting does not align with how management actually thinks about the business. Month-end close is harder than before, not easier.
Set up by someone who has never closed a month-end. The structure makes sense on day one and creates reconciliation problems for years.
Average cost configured because it was the default. The business runs on standard cost or FIFO. Inventory values are wrong from month one.
Standard reports built for a generic business. Management accounts need three customisations and a manual export to be usable.
I bring both CFO experience and hands-on Odoo implementation capability. That combination is unusual — most ERP consultants are not finance professionals, and most finance professionals have not implemented an ERP system themselves.
I design the financial architecture before any configuration begins. Chart of accounts, cost centres, reporting structure, inventory costing, tax configuration, and month-end close process — all defined up front, in line with how the business needs to operate, not in line with system defaults.
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Design the chart of accounts, cost structure, reporting framework, and costing method before touching the system. This is the phase most implementations skip.
Build Odoo to the financial architecture spec. Accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales — configured in sequence, with the ledger as the anchor.
Clean, validate, and migrate opening balances, customer and supplier records, and inventory from your current system. No shortcuts on data quality.
Run the first month-end in Odoo alongside the team. Fix what does not work. Hand over a system the finance function can run independently.
A 30-minute call will make it clear whether there is a fit. No commitment required.
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