Intercompany · group finance · human sign-off
Intercompany breaks reconciled and documented — without rebuilding spreadsheets every month
Ninon brings subsidiary GL lines into one workspace, proposes reconciliations with business-readable rationales, and carries your decisions into the next close. You sign off; the file holds up to internal control and statutory audit.
For consolidation and group financial control teams on multi-entity scopes (roughly 5–50 entities, mixed ERPs or disparate CSV exports).
Self-serve from €199/mo ex VAT · SAML SSO · ERP connectors · trust & security
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01Flow
Four steps, one clear story
1 · Your data
GL extracts, ERP or group CSV in one close session.
2 · Ninon automates
Ranked intercompany proposals with readable business rationales.
3 · You stay in charge
Approve or reject each match — audit-ready, no black box.
4 · AI memory
Decisions and patterns carried into the next close.
02Workspace
Review built around the intercompany file
Period session, ranked proposals with rationale and confidence, then approve or reject — traceable for control.
03Market context
Why intercompany still stalls so many closes
Commonly cited orders of magnitude on multi-entity groups — useful to frame your business case, not a Ninon performance claim.
Share of the close cycle
On extended group scopes, intercompany reconciliation can absorb a material slice of the countdown — often quoted between a quarter and two fifths of consolidation coordination time.
Cost of broad close suites
Enterprise platforms cover the full record-to-report chain with six-figure annual budgets and multi-month rollouts — heavy when the burning issue is ledger-level intercompany matching.
Ninon self-serve entry
Published Starter tier at €199/mo ex VAT: governed CSV import, period session and proposal review — no mandatory sales call to begin when self-serve is available.
Industry observation and internal pricing; model your own ROI on a stable entity scope — see our KPI framework in Guides.
04Pain → response
Frictions every group consolidation and controllership team knows
Ninon takes on these frictions before you sign off — on the intercompany scope of your general ledger.
- Intragroup treasury flows or management recharges booked with different narrations across subsidiaries
- Email chasing without structured evidence to hand to the statutory auditors
- The same recurring intercompany breaks reopened from scratch each close
Line-by-line spreadsheet glue across entities
Subsidiary extracts rarely align by magic—amounts, dates, currencies and narrations drift, and finance ends up patching workbooks that age badly. Ninon ingests GL into one session and proposes pairs with business-readable rationales—replacing brittle spreadsheet rework every period.
Residuals without a single narrative for control or audit
When evidence lives in email fragments, the file weakens under scrutiny. Each proposal carries explanation and confidence before your decision; you stay in charge, with detail auditors and controllers can reopen.
The same corridor debated again next close
Without structured memory, recurring corridors get reopened like surprises. Per-organisation memory keeps approvals and repeating motifs so the next period starts higher up on flows already settled between entities.
05Core workflow
A focused intercompany layer — not a six-month close programme
Transaction-level depth on subsidiary general ledger that close-checklist tools rarely cover, without the all-in enterprise platform project.
Reconciliation engine with business-readable rationales
Exact matches, narration similarity and memory hints — each hypothesis carries plain-language context you can review before approval.
Focused workflow: session → run → review
The workspace centres on a period session, a reconciliation run, and reviewing proposals—the flow group finance teams need for intercompany without scattered screens. Designed for velocity on this specific workload.
Short path to value once data is connected
Create your workspace, define entities, import general-ledger lines (file upload or connectors where available), then open a closing session and run reconciliation. Start in the product; add automation with your IT partner when volumes justify it—see the Guides section for integration options.
Still on Excel and email?
When workbook versions multiply and statutory auditors ask who signed off on what, moving to a governed workspace is as much a risk-management decision as an efficiency one.
Read: spreadsheet interco vs structured workspaceWhat Ninon delivers: intercompany reconciliation with rationales, per-organisation memory, and human sign-off. Forecasting, group commentary, FX policy, and the rest of record-to-report stay in your existing systems and processes.
06Impact
Time and budget leaks—and where Ninon bends the curve
No miracle spreadsheet: the pains above often materialise as steering hours lost to coordination, emergency adviser spend or close-date slip. Ninon targets observable gains on this intercompany slice—time back for substantive control, clearer dossiers for stakeholders, proportionate implementation.
Hours lost to spreadsheets and email back-and-forth
Manual chase-downs crowd out focus on material risk. Hypotheses are prioritised and narrated before approval; recurring motifs carry forward so each cycle sheds rework.
Audit or advisory invoices inflated by opaque files
When everyone decodes the ledger separately, clarification is billed by the hour. Readable rationales align group finance and auditors on a shared story and can shorten back-and-forth.
Budget and timeline focused on the intercompany layer
Skip sprawling programmes unrelated to the pain: governed imports and scheduled automation deliver early value where friction is measurable—a tighter effort-to-impact ratio until your own ROI model proves out.
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Concise FAQs
- Who is Ninon for?
- Group finance and consolidation teams that want to industrialise intercompany reconciliation across subsidiaries—explainable proposals, traceability for internal control and external reviewers, ways to connect your ledger data, and a UI centred on the close session and review—with implementation effort scaled to that scope.
- Does “AI-assisted” remove human reviewers?
- No. The AI ranks and explains hypotheses; group finance and statutory reviewers keep the final sign-off — essential wherever narrative evidence has to be handed to auditors or internal control.
- Which ingestion paths are credible out of the box?
- Structured general-ledger extracts: file import from the product (CSV or Excel where enabled) plus evolving ERP connectors. Your data should carry dates, accounts, narrations, currencies, amounts, and which Ninon entity each line belongs to.
- Will Ninon collapse every FX shock automatically?
- It highlights residual deltas with traceable rationale; policy decisions on thresholds and hedging narratives stay firmly with your treasury policy owners.
- Does Ninon replace our consolidation or ERP suite?
- No. Ninon targets the intercompany reconciliation slice: proposals, evidence, and review. Your consolidation platform, statutory reporting, and ERPs remain the system of record; Ninon complements them on this workflow.
- How do we model ROI credibly with the CFO office?
- Use directly attributable KPIs — consolidation labour hours per close, elapsed time until no blocking items outside the tool, ad-hoc auditor or adviser remediation spend — then compare before and after once workloads stabilise with the same subsidiaries and currencies. Ninon preserves logs and rationales that help evidence those calculations.
- Where can finance teams read practical guides?
- Open the Guides hub from the footer: French-first articles under /guides and English under /en/guides—definitions, prudent close KPIs, and when spreadsheets hit their ceiling. The public homepages / and /en describe the current product scope.
- What does Ninon cover in the group finance stack?
- Ninon delivers a dedicated layer for intercompany reconciliation—exact and fuzzy matching plus language-model assistance on residuals, organisational memory, and human review with traceability. The UI stays intentionally focused; you can be productive quickly once ledger lines are in a session. Out of scope by design: record-to-report work beyond intercompany and other close processes you already run elsewhere.
08Automation
Start in the dashboard, wire integrations when you need scale
For consolidation and group financial control, the simplest path is the product itself: open a session for the period, load GL lines, run reconciliation, then approve or reject proposals—no integration project required to begin.
When volumes or operating rhythm call for automation (scheduled extracts, hooks into your existing close chain), your IT organisation or integration partner can connect Ninon to those flows. Access stays under your governance—named users like today, or secured technical channels for scheduled jobs, aligned with your security standards.
Technical details for engineering teams are in our REST integration guide; business users do not need them to get productive.