Why Custom Hierarchies Are the Missing Link in Financial Reporting Agility

When your reporting structure doesn’t match business reality, finance pays the price. What if you are burning days every month remapping data in Excel, only to redo it the moment leadership asks for a new view? What if your auditors chase inconsistencies that aren’t errors in the numbers, but symptoms of rigid hierarchies forcing bad reporting fits? What if your finance teams miss close deadlines, not because they lack skill, but because the traditional ERP hierarchies were never built for today’s turnaround times? If you nodded to even one of these, your ERP hierarchy – not your skilled finance team – is running your reporting. And that’s a problem. Can we solve it? Short answer: yes. Click here to register for a webinar that does just that.

Traditional ERP Hierarchies Are Not Built for Evolving, Modern Businesses

ERPs like Oracle EBS and Fusion are indispensable. But their standard hierarchies are rigid, one-size-fits-all, and nearly impossible to adapt when business realities shift. Let’s put this in context:

A CFO needs to compare margins by geography to identify lagging regions. The ERP hierarchy is built by product line.
FP&A needs a quick profitability view by business unit. The ERP hierarchy rolls everything up by cost center.
Auditors demand a traceable account-level drilldown. The ERP hierarchy is consolidated at three levels too high.

The workarounds aren’t good enough:

Manual mapping in Excel. Endless copy-paste gymnastics that stretch close cycles and introduce errors.
IT-driven workarounds. Ticketing delays kill agility, leaving finance stuck waiting on technical fixes.
Full chart-of-accounts restructuring. Expensive, disruptive, and hardly a scalable option.

Meanwhile, reporting deadlines loom. Executives ask, “Why is this late again?” And finance teams, instead of analyzing trends, are busy reconciling columns.

Why This Gap Hurts Finance Leaders Most ?

Rigid hierarchies slow down reporting. But worse, they erode confidence. In the numbers, in the team, in the finance function at large.

CFOs lose agility. They can’t slice data differently for management vs. statutory reporting without manual intervention.
Controllers scramble to reconcile inconsistencies and hit close deadlines.
Analysts get trapped in mechanics rather than value-added analysis.
Auditors grow skeptical when “same numbers” show up differently across reports.

None of this is about bad finance practice. It’s about tools that are yet to catch up.

What If Reporting Was Built for Agility, Not Rigidity?

Imagine a reporting ecosystem where:

You can design alternate hierarchies on demand, whether by geography, product, cost center, or legal entity.
You generate multiple report formats from a single source of truth, without touching Excel.
Every report stays tied to Oracle GL data, giving you full accuracy and auditability.
Your team spends the close analyzing insights, not stitching together hierarchies.

That’s what Custom Hierarchies in GLConnect were built to deliver.

Introducing: Custom Hierarchies in GLConnect

GLConnect takes aim at one of finance’s most frustrating pain points. Instead of bending your reporting to fit rigid ERP structures, Custom Hierarchies let you reshape reporting around your business reality – on your terms. For CFOs, Controllers, Analysts, and ERP managers, this is the fine line between being reactive and staying in control.

A Sneak Peek into Custom Hierarchies: Webinar on October 1st

On October 1st, 2025, at 11 AM BST, SplashBI is hosting an exclusive webinar: “Custom Hierarchies: Transforming Financial Reporting Agility.” This session will explore how Custom Hierarchies in GLConnect:

Eliminate the manual Excel drag on every close
Give finance the agility to respond to any reporting demand – regulatory, management, or operational
Restore confidence in reporting by keeping every number tied to Oracle GL

You’ll hear from:

Julian Sweet, Finance Solutions Manager at SplashBI
Simon Beresford, Solutions Sales Manager at SplashBI

They’ll walk through real-world scenarios where finance teams broke free of ERP rigidity and finally put reporting back in the hands of finance.

This webinar is for finance leaders who are tired of workarounds. Specifically:

CFOs & Finance Leaders seeking agility and stakeholder trust.
Controllers aiming to shorten close cycles without sacrificing accuracy.
ERP & IT Managers who want scalable, finance-owned reporting solutions.
Analysts who crave confidence that their reports match business reality.

If you’re in any of these roles, the question is simple: how long can you afford to keep finance reporting chained to ERP rigidity?

Why You Can’t Afford to Miss This ?

Finance has entered an era where agility matters more than ever. New regulatory requirements. Shifting management demands. Business reorganizations. Your reporting structures need to keep pace. The cost of not adapting looms large.

Missed deadlines. Your close stretches into weeks instead of days.
Inconsistent outputs. Different versions of “truth” frustrate executives and auditors alike.
Lost credibility. Finance becomes the bottleneck, not the driver of decisions.

What do you need in order to adapt? One hour of your time on October 1st.

Ready to Break Free from ERP Rigidity?

Custom Hierarchies make a statement. Finance should own reporting, not be owned by it. Join us on October 1st at 11 AM BST to see how GLConnect’s Custom Hierarchies can transform your reporting agility.

Because finance reporting shouldn’t be a compromise. It should be your competitive advantage.