Reporting System
Communicate financial data to Scientists as well as scientific data to Administrators is what we consider the key of a successful institution.
One of our strength is to generate user-friendly reports to empower directors to simplify any decision-making process.
We translate scientific results into real-time meaningful financial information, and therefore communicate to scientist comprehensive financial reports. We centralize relevant data and, together with your staff, we design a management system able to provide comparable figures, harmonize procedures and optimize workflows.
We offer you appropriate tools to compensate the old-fashion procedures and guarantee a professional support to science.
Personnel overview
Working contract may be covered by institutional funds or third party grants with different duration.
Find the right solution to optimize your resources.
Monitoring and controlling system
Our consultants design and implement a budget reporting system as tool to communicate financial information to directors, research group leaders and facility leaders as well as perform budget analysis that will support decision-making process.
We synchronize with your accounting system, we extract the relevant information and we organize data in a friendly and readable report.
We support you generating appropriate reports for financial evaluation, governmental assessment, or internal purposes like institute budget analysis, mid-long financial plan, budget allocation analysis.
Management system
We advise institute financial and controlling department regarding the use of the SAP and KLR system and how it could be customized or adjusted to best serve the administrative needs in terms of reporting, controlling expenditures and integration of facility recharge.
Moreover, our expertise on management system for research institute could guide you through the different commercial solution. After more then 10 years experience in science administration we have also developed an ad-hoc system that mainly supports the administration of core facility.
Streamline your operation!
Duties and responsibilities shall be distributed according to roles but not necessary lead to a hyerarchical structure.
Harmonize procedures, define policies, streamline your daily work by improving communication and by building the bridge between departments.
Science administration relies heavily on networking and shall be integrated into the scientific life of the organization, as well as scientists shall approce and take advantage of the institutional support.
Institutional policies and procedures
Research Infrastructure guideline
Core Facility Access Rights
Financial services
Full-fill administrative and legal requirements with a strong attention of what science needs is our major strengh.
Our team has the specialized regulatory and financial expertise to help institutions successfully navigate complex accounting principles and billing rules, to assure the appropriate quality of financial data and its interpretation.
Our consultants can be either located at your institute, for a certain period of time, or can also operate from our headquarter.
Financial Assessment
Reporting and Monitoring System
RI management
Fields of experience
Science keeps evolving and administration has to be dynamic to adapt and serve science properly!
Our fields of experience and services in a nutshell.
Organizational Structure
Duties and responsibilities shall be distributed according to roles but not necessary lead to a hyerarchical structure.
Harmonize procedures, workflow and policies by building the bridge between departments and improving communication.
Research Infrastructure (RI)
During the last decade, most of the European funding agencies have been supporting the development of Research Infrastructures, resulting in an increase of administrative duties without an adequate compensation of professional support.
Facility leaders are asked to full fill adminsitrative duties and reduce time available for scientists.
With more then 12 years experience in Research Infrastructure Management we can assure you professional support without increasing administrative staff.
From the start up, through the development till the steady-state, we follow the development of research infrastructures and assure the interaction with the progress of scientific needs in the institute.
RI's prerequisites
Organizational structure
Business and financial model
Financial methodology
Management Tool
Financial services
Our consultants assist you to accurately understand the financial aspects of your institute by developing and implementing dynamic financial plans, expenditure forecasting and operating models.
Middle-long term Financial Plan and Forecast
Institute Budget Analysis
Reporting and monitoring system
Financial assessment
Management Tools
An appropriate managment tool is the ultimate step to reach efficiency and professionality. Do not underestimate the power of a consolidate system where adminsitration and scientists could be in connection to exchange information and data with no additional burden.
We can evaluate which kind of managment tool is more convenient for your organization. Eventually, we can design and implement a new managment system or customize our MARIE.
Outsourcing
If you seek experience in science administration, we can provide you interim qualified staff to be inserted in your team. We will assist you to solve specific tasks, carry on a project or train administrative staff member.
Workshop & Training
We periodically organize workshop but also in-house training course.
Please have a look also at our Workshop.
Financial assessment
A careful revision and deep analysis of the annual budget, as weel as a cash flow analysis, enable a more accurate financial plan that clearly supports future strategy.
Institute Budget Analysis
We provide you with qualified, experienced Chief Financial Officer, to team up with your staff.
After a deep analysis of the Institute Budget Structure, we screen each type of expenditure, we define fix costs vs variable costs, we identify weak area and eventually suggest improvent. Our consultant will assist you to identify main drawback, solve specific problems, therefore find solutions.
Resources and costs assessment
Evaluate your funding sources to match your future strategies is the key to assure successful enduring projects, high quality of research and continuity.
A "break-even" cost analysis endorses policies and decisions for long-term sustainable infrastructure.
Understand the costs of your institute, of your infrastructure and of each scientific group is the first step to optimize resources and efficiently keep science to a high quality level.
We team up with your accounting office, we analyze the profit and lost statement and the institutional balance. We verify your funding sources and define the most appopriate financial plan for your activities to accomplish your mission.
Middle-long term Financial Plan and Forecast
The financial plan is the solid basement of a sustainable organizational structure that needs to be maintained by a regular enduring dialog with the coordinators of each unit.
Our consultants assist you to accurately interpret the financial aspects of your institute by developing and implementing dynamic middle-long term financial plans, expenditure forecasting and operating models.
We define proper financial plans to couple scientific needs to financial resources available and therefore execute long-term strategies.