This UK company was the vehicle through which the world’s largest office supplies company entered the UK market. Growth through the acquisition of 12 group companies increased turnover from GBP £6m to GBP £170m in 6 years.

The merger of these regional businesses into a national distribution company involved considerable business integration and change management.

The Journey

• Worked on a number of integration projects, communicating with multiple stakeholders at all levels.
• Integrated multiple payrolls into one system, migrating data and transactions from redundant systems.
• Stock integration team for 5 regional warehouses.
• Worked on the IT systems integration team for the data warehousing project and management information system.
• Mapped and migrated the general ledger balances and transactions from multiple systems.
• Ensured financial control for the migration of acccounts payable balances.
• Developed the group budget database and planning tool to inform Board decisions relating to group restructuring.

The Outcome

• Single payroll process and system
• Stock control system
• Single accounting system
• Single management reporting system
• Single company planning tool