Connected Finance use case

The balance drops below the target corridor.
Then the phone calls start.

In most organisations this is a figure that turns red. What happens next depends on who is reachable. Here it is the start of a modelled chain — eight stations, six domains, one piece of evidence at the end.

The management question

What does Friday's payment run do to my buffer and my covenant?

The position

It sits in several bank portals and a spreadsheet. By the time it is consolidated and FX-normalised, half the day is gone.

The options

Draw a facility, delay the payment run, push collections. Which one delivers what is estimated, not calculated.

The effect

Whether the chosen action worked is recorded nowhere. The next decision starts from zero again.

Every single step exists in some system today. What is missing is the evidenced connection between them.

The sequence

From the transaction to the decision.

Four steps, and the same cross-functional capabilities across every one of them.

The sequence, in four steps
SignalPosition below the target corridor
CaseOptions with a calculated effect
Financial effectBuffer · covenant · interest effect
EvidenceRealised against a recorded baseline
Across every step
  • Cases
  • Controls
  • Authorities
  • Evidence
Station by station

Eight stations, and a responsible domain at each one.

Every single step exists in some system today. What is usually missing is the column in the middle: the evidenced connection between them.

01 · Cash positionTreasury

Consolidated across banks, entities and currencies, FX-normalised, with a statement of how reliable it is.

02 · Liquidity forecastTreasury · Finance Control Tower

Due dates, payment behaviour, project drawdowns, personnel cost. Not just the curve but the drivers behind it.

03 · Funding decisionTreasury · Financial Case Management

Draw a facility, delay the payment run, push collections, intercompany funding. Each option with a calculated effect on position, buffer and covenant.

04 · ApprovalIdentity & Access Governance

Who may decide up to which amount in which entity. Checked at the moment of the action, not afterwards.

05 · ExecutionTreasury · Working Capital

Drawdown, payment run, collections action. With an owner, a deadline and a state, not as a log line.

06 · SettlementYour bank

The account movement is the bank's truth. FinanceOS reads it and applies it.

07 · PostingYour ERP

Transaction and posting authority stay where they are today. FinanceOS prepares and does not post alongside.

08 · VerificationFinance Control Tower · Accounting Operations

The realised effect is measured against the baseline recorded beforehand and attributed to the action. The finding goes back into forecast and assumptions.

Six domains, one chain, one piece of evidence. Two of the eight stations sit explicitly in your systems — settlement at the bank, posting in the ERP. That is precisely why the column in between is the subject.

Modules involved

What comes together.

Every module is a standalone entry point. This chain shows what comes together once several of them run on the same finance data model.

Treasury & liquidity Position · forecast · funding

Pilot / validation

Carries the consolidated position across banks and entities, the forecast on top of it, and the funding options with their calculated effect on buffer and covenant.

Cash forecasting Curve · drivers · scenario

Pilot / validation

The curve and the causes behind it: due dates, payment behaviour, project drawdowns. A scenario here is derived from records, not a free assumption.

Cases & exceptions Option · decision · effect

In active development

The funding decision as a case: options with an expected effect, approval by authority, the reasoning recorded, verification at the end.

Control & authority Amount limits · four eyes · audit trail

Verified in product

Who may approve up to which amount for which entity — as an enforced rule at the moment of the action, with an audit trail per exercise.

Payments & banking Payment run · approval · application

Pilot / validation

The payment run across all banks and entities, with server-side approval checking and the application of the account movement to the case.

What moves financially

The chain of financial effects.

What moves financially
Cash positionConsolidated, FX-normalised
BufferAgainst the target corridor
Covenant headroomVisible before execution
Interest and discount effectCalculated per option
Realised effectAgainst the recorded baseline
Decision and evidence

Who decides, and what stays of it.

A facility, a payment run or a collections action — within the authority that applies to this entity and this amount. The chosen option carries its expected effect with it, so that something is comparable at the end.

Options are on the tableAmount, deadline and expected effect per option
Authority checkedApproval rule per entity and amount, at the moment of the action
Effect recordedExpected effect on position, buffer and covenant
Effect verifiedRealised against baseline, attributed to the action
What stays in the source systems

The boundary we do not move.

Your bank

Accounts, payments and settlement stay with the bank. FinanceOS reads the movement and applies it; the bank remains the source. Connectivity runs through Konfipay as the provider route in normal operation.

Your ERP

Posting and posting authority stay in the ERP. FinanceOS prepares the journal handover and does not post alongside.

Your treasury system

Where one is in use it keeps trading, screening and custody. FinanceOS integrates it rather than replacing it.

Maturity of the capabilities in this chain

What we can evidence here — and what we cannot.

In active development Pilot / validation Verified in product

What is not marked, we do not claim. The full state per capability is on the module pages and under what we can evidence today.

What people ask about this

Three questions from the first conversation.

Does this replace our treasury system?

No. A treasury system shows the position. What it does not know is why the position will move — that lies in projects, contracts and payment terms. Because those domains share the same model, the forecast here is derived from records.

How does the approval work?

Through a stored rule per entity, amount and type of decision, checked at the moment of the action rather than afterwards. Segregation of duties is an enforced rule: whoever creates does not approve.

What does “measured against the recorded baseline” mean?

Before the action runs, the starting value is recorded — position, buffer, expected effect. Afterwards the realised effect is measured against it and attributed to the action. Without that baseline any statement about effect is a claim.

Conversation

Thirty minutes on your next liquidity decision.

Bring this case as it looks in your organisation. We work through it on your example and say where a common finance layer holds and where it does not.

Who you speak toJörg H. Paul Schäfer, JPS-iQ Solutions Group
How longThirty minutes, no slide deck
What you leave withWhich module is the most obvious entry point for you