Finance Data Governance

Trust the data before you trust the numbers.

FinDataGuard continuously checks finance master data, dimensions and coding policies so reporting, month end and AI start with cleaner, more consistent NetSuite data.

Finance Data Governance for NetSuite

Finance Data Health
Live
0.0%Health

Overall Data Health

Across 6 governed domains

▲ 2.1 pts since last close

Chart of Accounts

0%7 issues

Vendor Master

0%64 issues

Customer Master

0%18 issues

Transaction Coding

0%127 issues

Dimensions

0%42 issues

Intercompany Setup

0%3 issues

Critical Issues

Requires review
  • £0Posted without required cost-centre information
  • 0Vendors with incomplete finance classification
  • 0GL accounts used inconsistently across subsidiaries
  • 0Customers missing reporting classifications
01 / Source

NetSuite records

Accounts, subsidiaries, departments, classes, vendors, customers and journal coding.

Chart of accountsDimensionsMaster data
02 / Governance

FinDataGuard checks

Policy rules run continuously and score every domain against your finance standards.

Policy engineHealth scoringExceptions
03 / Outcome

Numbers you can sign

A clean, auditable base for reporting, consolidation, month-end close and AI.

Pre-close readinessAudit trailReporting

The problem

Your reports are only as reliable as the data underneath them.

NetSuite gives finance teams enormous flexibility. Over time that flexibility can create inconsistent departments, locations, accounts, vendors, customers, classifications and coding practices across the organisation.

FinDataGuard gives Finance one control layer for continuously measuring and improving that structure.

Departments

412 values

63 unmapped

Accounts

1,180 active

8 inconsistent

Coding rules

94 policies

127 exceptions

How it works

From connection to continuous improvement.

Five stages that take finance from an unmeasured structure to a governed one, with evidence at every step.

  1. 01

    Connect NetSuite

    Securely connect FinDataGuard to the customer's NetSuite environment.

    Read-only credentials · scoped access

  2. 02

    Understand the structure

    Analyse accounts, subsidiaries, departments, classes, locations, custom segments, vendors, customers and selected transaction coding.

    Structure map · 1,180 accounts · 12 subsidiaries

  3. 03

    Establish finance policies

    Use predefined controls or create organisation-specific finance policies.

    248 active policies · versioned

  4. 04

    Measure continuously

    Calculate Finance Data Health and identify issues requiring attention.

    Group health 94.7% · daily recalculation

  5. 05

    Resolve and evidence

    Assign issues, track remediation and maintain a clear history of resolution.

    Owner · due date · resolution trail

Multi-subsidiary governance

One finance standard. Across every entity.

See where finance-data standards are strong, where they are deteriorating and which subsidiaries require attention.

Group Health94.7%
Subsidiaries monitored12
Active finance policies248

Group finance standards

US requires attention
Standard
COA Compliance
99%
94%
91%
97%
Dimension Compliance
97%
89%
95%
92%
Vendor Quality
96%
83%
94%
90%
Customer Quality
98%
91%
96%
94%

US is below group standard on vendor quality (83%) and dimension compliance (89%) — the largest contributors to group drift this quarter.

AI-assisted governance

Let AI help discover the rules your finance team already follows.

FinDataGuard can analyse established coding patterns and suggest potential governance policies for Finance to review and approve.

Every suggestion is a proposal. Finance decides what becomes policy.

Policy suggestions

Suggested policy

Pattern confidence 98.5%

98.5% of Software Subscription transactions are coded to IT.

26 transactions currently use another department.

Patterns analysed

1,284

Suggestions pending

9

Approved by Finance

37

Solutions

Built for the people accountable for the numbers.

Group Financial Controller

See group-wide finance-data quality and enforce consistent accounting structures.

  • Entity-by-entity standards matrix

  • Consistent COA and dimension rules

  • Drift alerts before period close

First trust the data.
Then report on it.
Then let AI analyse it.

Security

Finance data deserves enterprise-grade protection.

Governance only earns trust when the platform holding the data is controlled, observable and reversible.

DEPLOY

Read-only by design

Initial deployment observes your environment without writing to it.

ACCESS

Role-based access

Finance, systems and audit roles see only what their role requires.

TRAIL

Audit history

Every policy change, issue and resolution is recorded with its owner.

CRYPTO

Encrypted data

Encryption in transit and at rest across every connection and store.

SCOPE

Controlled permissions

Least-privilege credentials, scoped to the records governance needs.

ISOLATION

Tenant isolation

Customer environments are logically separated from one another.

Integration

Designed around NetSuite finance structures.

FinDataGuard reads the structures finance already maintains and measures them against the policies finance sets.

Finance Data Governance for NetSuite

NetSuite environmentFinDataGuard
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Subsidiaries
  • Departments
  • Classes
  • Locations
  • Custom Segments
  • Vendors
  • Customers
  • Transactions

Read scope

Structure & coding

Write access

None at deployment

Refresh

Daily + on demand

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How much of your month end is spent fixing the data behind the numbers?

See how FinDataGuard can give your finance team a measurable view of data quality, coding consistency and governance across NetSuite.