Diagnostic
Find where automation actually pays.
Map the current process, quantify the work, identify controls and decide whether automation makes commercial sense.
From £2,500
Finance Automation & Control
Finance automation without losing financial control.
Rivenhall Systems identifies, redesigns and automates repetitive finance workflows—while preserving human review, documentation and accountability.
Your people spend less time moving, checking and reconciling information, and more time handling judgement, exceptions and decisions.
Finance-ledHuman-controlledBuilt for traceability
Live process
RH-AP-04101
Manual work
Recurring workflow
Spreadsheets Repeated checks
02
Quantify
Economic case
Hours Volume Risk
03
Redesign
Controlled process
Simplify Define ownership
04
Automate
Routine handled
Validation Exceptions
05
Control
Accountability retained
Human review Audit record
The capacity question
Not every automation problem needs another permanent hire.
Finance teams often add capacity to operate processes built around spreadsheets, exports, inboxes and repeated checks.
Before adding headcount, Rivenhall determines whether the work can be simplified, controlled and automated.
01
Hours removed
02
Exceptions surfaced
03
Reporting accelerated
04
Controls retained
Commercial journey
A practical route from manual work to managed automation.
Start with evidence, implement one prioritised workflow and keep it reliable after go-live.
Automation Sprint
Turn one expensive manual workflow into a controlled automated process.
Redesign, build, test and deploy one defined finance workflow with validation, exceptions, review and documentation built in.
Typically £10,000–£20,000+
Managed Automation
Automation that remains controlled after go-live.
Monitor, maintain and improve live workflows as systems, controls and operational requirements change.
Typically £1,500–£4,000+ per month
What we automate
Focused on recurring finance work.
Rivenhall works across reporting, control and finance operations where repeated handling creates cost, delay or avoidable risk.
Financial Reporting
FP&A & Management Information
Reconciliations
Financial Control
Month-End / Record-to-Report
Data Consolidation
Finance Operations
Exception Monitoring
Approval Workflows
Evidence & Documentation
Not every workflow should be automated. Suitability depends on process stability, controls, data quality, systems and economics.
Explore finance workflowsProcess redesign
From manual finance process to controlled workflow.
See how repeated hand-offs become a visible process with defined checks, clear exceptions and accountable decisions.
Select a view
01Input
02Automated processing
03Validation
04Exception review
05Approval
06Output + audit trail
Controlled state
Automation handles the routine. People remain responsible for the decisions that matter.
Process economics
What is this process costing you?
Use a few working assumptions to estimate the annual employment cost attached to a recurring manual finance process.
Annual manual process cost
£21,600
Indicative automatable effort
£12,960
This is an illustrative operational estimate, not a guaranteed saving.
Book an Automation DiagnosticMethod
Understand first. Automate second.
Rivenhall does not begin by automating a broken process. The work is understood, quantified and simplified before the appropriate technology is selected.
Discover
Understand the workflow, people, systems and existing controls.
Quantify
Measure volume, manual effort, delays, errors and economic value.
Design
Simplify the process and decide what should remain under human control.
Build
Implement and test routine, exceptional and failure paths.
Control
Confirm access, approvals, evidence, ownership and fallback arrangements.
Improve
Monitor the live workflow and adapt it as operational needs change.
Controls & security
Automation should remove repetitive work—not accountability.
Each workflow is designed around appropriate access, human approval, exception handling, traceability, documentation and fallback processes.
See the control principlesHuman approval
Exception handling
Traceability
Monitoring
Founder-led delivery
Finance experience. Direct delivery responsibility.
Founded by Renner Rivero, Rivenhall combines finance experience, process discipline and direct responsibility from the first Diagnostic through implementation. Specialist technical and finance expertise is brought into engagements where required.
About Renner and Rivenhall Systems
Finance experienceProcess designAutomationControl & governance
A defined first engagement
Which finance workflow is costing more than it should?
Start with a defined Diagnostic to understand the work, quantify the opportunity and decide whether automation makes commercial sense.