Reporting expertise for finance & procurement
Power BI Consulting Services
Clearer reporting. Better decisions.
Denova helps finance and procurement teams turn scattered data and manual reporting into useful dashboards, reports and dependable reporting processes.
Our Power BI consultancy and consulting services cover new development, implementation, performance improvement and ongoing support—shaped around the decisions your team needs to make.
Project delivery · Embedded specialists · Managed services
Where Denova can help
When reporting is holding the team back
We connect reporting expertise with an understanding of finance and source-to-pay processes, so the work addresses the underlying business problem.
Reporting challenge
Conflicting figures
Different definitions, inconsistent supplier records and disconnected extracts can make the same question produce several answers. Denova helps agree measures, connect the data and reconcile the results.
Reporting challenge
Too much report preparation
Repeated exports and spreadsheet consolidation consume time at month-end and before procurement reviews. We help organise the data preparation and refresh process so the team can spend more time investigating exceptions.
Reporting challenge
Slow or fragile reporting
Reports that run slowly, refresh unpredictably or depend on one person are difficult to rely on. We review the bottlenecks, improve maintainability and establish clear ownership for support.
Our Power BI services
Support across the reporting lifecycle
Start with a defined requirement or an existing report that needs attention. We agree the scope, responsibilities and deliverables with your team before work begins.
“Dashboard” often describes an overview screen. We confirm whether you need interactive report pages, a Power BI service dashboard or both, based on how people will use the information.
01 · See the priorities. Find the next action.
Power BI dashboard development
Denova designs overview pages that make performance, risk and exceptions easier to review. We start with the audience and the decisions, then organise the measures and routes into detail.
- KPI definitions, targets and reporting periods agreed with business owners.
- Wireframes, summary visuals, filters and navigation to actionable records.
- Accessible labels, appropriate mobile layouts and user validation.
What you receive: the agreed dashboard or overview pages, measure definitions and a clear route from headline figures to the underlying work.
Illustrative use cases
Finance and procurement in practice
Finance: show month-end progress, overdue approvals and reconciliation exceptions by entity, with the next owner visible.
Procurement: review spend under management, contract coverage and supplier delivery issues, then identify the items a category owner or buyer needs to investigate.
02 · Answer the question behind the headline.
Power BI report development
Denova builds interactive reports for the people who need to explore a movement, compare performance or explain a difference. The model and calculations are developed alongside the report experience.
- Source mapping, data preparation and a model at the right transaction level.
- Documented measures, date logic, filters and drillthrough views.
- Reconciliation to agreed source totals and checks for missing or duplicated data.
What you receive: the agreed report and model, tested calculations and documentation to support ongoing ownership.
Illustrative use cases
Finance and procurement in practice
Finance: analyse actuals against an agreed budget or forecast, with consistent period and currency rules and detail behind the variance.
Procurement: investigate invoice-match exceptions, approval ageing and supplier spend without multiplying totals across order, receipt and invoice lines.
03 · Move from a reporting need to a usable service.
Power BI implementation services
Denova supports the wider delivery around Power BI, from discovery and data readiness through testing, rollout and handover. We coordinate the business and technical work with your internal owners.
- Discovery, source access, data-quality review and a prioritised delivery scope.
- Reporting and model development, with access, refresh and deployment arrangements agreed with IT.
- User acceptance testing, training, documentation and support handover.
What you receive: agreed deliverables and acceptance evidence, plus named responsibilities for keeping the solution working after launch.
Illustrative use cases
Finance and procurement in practice
Finance: introduce reporting across several entities with consistent close-status definitions and access appropriate to each team.
Procurement: bring approved sourcing, purchasing and AP data into a coherent reporting model, with clear supplier mappings and source owners.
04 · Find what is slow—and why.
Power BI performance optimisation
Denova investigates slow page interactions and slow refreshes as separate problems. We establish a baseline, identify the likely causes and prioritise changes that can be tested against the same reporting scenario.
- Review of report visuals, calculations, model structure and data volumes.
- Assessment of source queries, transformations, refresh dependencies and relevant service constraints.
- Targeted changes with before-and-after timings and reconciliation checks.
What you receive: findings, prioritised improvements and measured validation. Feasible improvements depend on the report, sources and environment.
Illustrative use cases
Finance and procurement in practice
Finance: investigate a month-end report that is slow when users filter by entity or open detailed reconciliation pages.
Procurement: review a spend model that has grown over time and now struggles with supplier detail or its scheduled refresh.
05 · Keep reporting useful as the business changes.
Power BI support services
Denova provides continuing support for an agreed reporting estate or area of responsibility. We define the service around critical reports, review cycles, incident handling and the improvements your users need.
- Report inventory, named owners and a clear route for issues and escalation.
- Agreed refresh monitoring, fault investigation and checks after source-system changes.
- Documentation, knowledge transfer and a prioritised improvement backlog.
What you receive: an agreed support scope, responsibilities, service hours and response expectations. New development and major changes are scoped explicitly.
Illustrative use cases
Finance and procurement in practice
Finance: establish support ownership before close deadlines and investigate failed refreshes or unexplained changes in approved measures.
Procurement: maintain supplier and category mappings, respond to purchasing-system changes and keep recurring reports aligned with operational needs.
How Denova delivers
From business question to working reporting
01
Understand the requirement
Agree the users, decisions, current problems and what success should look like. Confirm source access, business owners and the priority use cases.
02
Design and build
Define measures and data rules, shape the reporting journey and build in manageable stages. Review working outputs with the people who will use them.
03
Validate and introduce
Reconcile figures, test access and performance, and work through real finance or procurement scenarios. Agree acceptance and the rollout approach.
04
Hand over and improve
Provide the agreed documentation and user guidance. Establish support ownership, review usage and prioritise changes as needs develop.
Choose how we work together
The right expertise, in the right arrangement
We help you choose or combine delivery models around the work, the ownership you need and the capacity already in your team.
A Power BI specialist works alongside your team, building knowledge of your systems and processes while you set day-to-day priorities.
Useful when finance and procurement reporting needs continuing capacity and business context. See our Power BI developers.
Denova manages an agreed area of reporting or support, with defined responsibilities, review arrangements and performance measures.
Useful when you need continuing ownership of a clearly scoped service.
Agree a defined dashboard, implementation or improvement project, with deliverables, milestones and acceptance criteria.
Useful when the outcome is clear and you need focused delivery expertise.
The work in practice
Relevant Denova client experience
Examples of reporting, automation and process work delivered with client teams. Each story explains the setting and the contribution.
An embedded Denova BI and automation consultant rebuilt finance approval flows in Power Automate and introduced a Power BI dashboard for document status and approval measures.
The work combined entity-level approval logic, access controls and documentation, connecting report visibility with the process behind it.
Over approximately two years, Denova colleagues developed financial reporting dashboards, managed recurring finance and commercial reporting, and supported data quality, automation and transformation across finance and procurement.
The engagement demonstrates how delivery knowledge can support both new work and continuing reporting responsibilities.
Denova’s Zip engagement addressed required intake fields, integration issues, approval routing and reporting exports, backed by documented processes and change governance.
This is evidence of improving the operational foundations for reporting. The case does not describe a Power BI implementation or a measured KPI uplift.
Explore the detail
Planning your next step
Use these practical guides to shape a requirement before discussing delivery with Denova.
Dashboard & report development →
Write a clear brief covering decisions, measures, sources and acceptance.
Implementation services →
Plan discovery, data readiness, testing, rollout and handover.
Performance optimisation →
Separate slow interactions from slow refreshes and prioritise what to check.
Support services →
Define ownership, service scope and the difference between support and change.
Finance reporting →
Design around month-end ownership, approval status, ageing and reconciliation.
Procurement reporting →
Define S2P KPIs, identify source requirements and turn dashboards into action.
Your questions
Before we begin
Can Denova improve our existing reports?
Yes. We can start with an existing report, model or reporting process. We review the business need and current behaviour, then agree whether targeted improvements, additional development or a wider implementation is appropriate.
What will Denova need from our team?
A business owner, representative users and approved access to the relevant systems or sample data. We also agree the people responsible for source definitions, security, reconciliation and acceptance.
How are scope, cost and timing agreed?
We review the required outcomes, data readiness, report complexity, dependencies and delivery model before agreeing the scope and commercial approach. We confirm availability and milestones against that work.
How does access to our data work?
Denova colleagues work through the client’s approved remote desktop environment. Your organisation retains control over access and permissions. The engagement also defines report access, export requirements and responsibilities with your internal owners.
Let’s talk
What does your reporting need to do?
Tell Denova about the decisions your team needs to make, the systems you use and what is getting in the way.
It helps to include whether you need a new dashboard or report, an implementation, performance improvements or continuing support—and whether the priority sits in finance, procurement or both.
What happens next
A member of the Denova team will discuss the requirement, suitable expertise and delivery approach with you.
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