Transitioning a finance back office in 90 days

4 min readUpdated 2026-07-31By the ConnectPro Outsourcing team

Quick answer

A multi-entity services group transitioned accounts payable, bank reconciliation and management reporting support to a five-person managed ConnectPro team. The 90-day transition completed on schedule with 99.7 percent data accuracy, no SLA misses in the first two quarters, and month-end close shortened by three days.

Key takeaways

  • 99.7 percent accuracy against a 99.5 percent SLA.
  • Month-end close shortened by three days.
  • Zero SLA misses across the first two quarters.
  • Parallel run at 30 percent volume was the risk control that mattered.

The situation

Finance operations were spread across three entities with inconsistent processes, and the controller was spending month-end chasing coding errors rather than reviewing results.

What we did

  1. 1

    Discovery and mapping

    Fifteen days documenting every process across all three entities, with a written scope boundary and risk register.

  2. 2

    Build

    Recruitment, access provisioning, SOP authoring and QA scorecard sign-off with the controller.

  3. 3

    Parallel pilot

    Thirty percent of volume run in parallel for three weeks with daily reconciliation of both outputs.

  4. 4

    Cutover and governance

    Full volume, SLA measurement live, weekly operations call and monthly business review.

Results

MetricBeforeAfter 2 quarters
Data accuracy97.1%99.7%
Month-end close9 working days6 working days
AP invoices processed / day120310
SLA missesn/a0

Frequently asked questions

The client's controller retained all review and sign-off. The team supplied preparation capacity, not professional opinions.

Documentation. Three entities had three undocumented ways of doing the same task. Discovery is where a transition is won or lost.

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