Reconciliation is critical — and broken
For most finance teams, reconciliation means juggling multiple tools and spreadsheets, passing data between systems manually, and hoping nothing slips through the cracks. The risks are real: human error, revenue leakage, failed audits, and a process so opaque that no one can tell at a glance what's done, what's stuck, and what's wrong.
The problem compounds in large organizations where data is scattered across dozens of internal systems and external counterparties. Ensuring accuracy across all of it — consistently, at scale, under regulatory scrutiny — is a genuine operational challenge.
When STC Kuwait adopted IFRS 15 in Q1 2018 and opted for full retrospective application, their finance team faced exactly this. The new standard demanded tighter controls over revenue reporting, with both internal and external audit requirements that had to be met on an ongoing basis. Their existing approach — manual data handling across disparate tools — wasn't built for that level of rigor. It was error-prone, time-consuming, and nearly impossible to audit cleanly.