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Bridging - Current Solutions & Workarounds

Tools & Systems

Cash Analytics

  • What it is: Treasury Management System for cash visibility and transaction management
  • How they use it: Manual input of transactions, no ERP integration
  • Limitations: Lacks drill-down capabilities, no variance analysis features, difficult to reclassify historical transactions
  • Used by: Euroports

Excel

  • What it is: Spreadsheet software
  • How they use it: Primary tool for bridging calculations - aggregate classified transactions, compare to budget EBITDA, derive working capital movements
  • Limitations: Manual, error-prone, no audit trail, doesn't scale
  • Used by: Euroports

ERP Systems

  • What it is: Enterprise resource planning systems (various)
  • How they use it: Source of GL accounts and budget data for classification
  • Limitations: Bookings only updated monthly, not useful for within-month analysis
  • Used by: Euroports

WorkDay ERP

  • What it is: Cloud-based ERP with detailed cost center, spend category, project data
  • How they use it: Source of transactional data with richer categorization than bank statements
  • Limitations: Granularity (cost center, project) not available in bank statement data
  • Used by: Personio

Adaptive

  • What it is: FP&A reporting system for budget/actual comparisons
  • How they use it: Final reporting to senior management, comparison against budget and rolling forecast
  • Limitations: Doesn't have transactional-level detail
  • Used by: Personio

Manual Workarounds

Excel Bridging Spreadsheets

  • What they do: Build custom Excel models to classify direct flows, assign GL accounts, aggregate, and compare to budget
  • Why: No tool provides integrated direct-to-indirect bridging with variance analysis
  • Source: Euroports (2025-10-27)

Chasing Local Entities for Explanations

  • What they do: Email/call local entity finance teams to understand variance drivers
  • Why: Centralized treasury can't see entity-level detail to explain movements
  • Source: Euroports (2025-10-27)

Manual FP&A-to-Weekly Splitting

  • What they do: Take FP&A monthly budget and manually split into weekly transactional forecasts
  • Why: FP&A provides monthly numbers but treasury needs weekly cash view
  • Source: Personio (2025-12-04)

GFC Rolling Forecast as Reference

  • What they do: Use FP&A's rolling monthly forecast (GFC) as more accurate reference than static budget
  • Why: Six-monthly budget becomes stale; GFC is updated monthly
  • Source: Personio (2025-12-04)