Bridgewey Ltd specialises in creating back-office efficiencies for e-commerce companies. Over the past twelve years we have helped consolidators achieve their post-acquisition synergy objectives. Back-office projects have included:

Establishing new finance functions to drive back-office efficiencies

The project involved:

  • Establishing new finance functions in Dublin, Malta and London.
  • Merging departments.
  • Transferring European functions to Asia.
  • Outsourcing other activities considered to be non-core.

Result back-office efficiencies achieved:

  • Improved financial governance and monitoring of KPIs.
  • Enhanced Financial Reporting and Transparency.
  • Reduced duplication of effort and the achievement of cost savings.
  • Establishment of business partnering capabilities.
  • Establishment of centralised cash management and treasury function.

Implementing new cloud and on-premise ERPs for back-office efficiencies

The project involved:

  • Assessing the client’s requirements and documenting the workflows.
  • Researching the market for systems that met the client’s requirements.
  • Carrying out an RFP and selecting the system.
  • Implementing the new cloud ERP and on-premise ERP systems solutions.

Result of implementing new cloud and on-premise ERPs:

  • Enhanced financial and operational visibility through one-source of truth and real-time reporting.
  • The standardisation of processes, procedures and workflows.
  • System reliability, less down-time and easy access to backed up data.
  • Easy adoption of automation and advanced analytics – future readiness.
  • Shorter reporting cycles with enhanced data accuracy.

Creation of PSP (Payment Service Provider) Activities to unlock back-office efficiencies

The project involved:

  • Determining and documenting the client’s requirements.
  • Evaluating the Payment Service Provider (PSP) options, including fees, currencies, integration complexity.
  • Defining the system architecture, map the data flows and define the security.
  • Document the PSP accounting processes.
  • Implement and configure the relevant components of the system.
  • Test and validate the accuracy of payments, data accuracy and response.
  • Go-live and Post Go-live monitoring, determining improvements required.

Result of creating PSP Activities:

  • Enhanced handling and efficiency of payment processing.
  • Expanded payment capabilities through the inclusion of multiple payment channels and multi-currency support.
  • Improved customer experiences through enhanced payment security.
  • Real-time transaction monitoring, automation of the reconciliation process and a comprehensive audit trail.

As independent, experienced finance directors and business managers, we know the specific challenges of the sector and operate as project managers and change agents focused on back-office efficiencies in the e-commerce sector.

We are very familiar with AIM-listed & PLC companies, their compliance requirements and reporting demands.

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Graham Richardson

Graham Richardson

Director Commerce & Industry

Graham is a Chartered Accountant with over 26 years of qualified experience in delivering change, process re-engineering, systems implementations and financial reporting under a number of different accounting standards.

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