What is SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting?

SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting is a solution that connects financial close processes and accelerates your group consolidation.

Delve into consolidated reports to see supporting details in the general ledger

• Unified entity and group close reporting
• Continuous accounting and advanced group consolidation features
• Data collection capabilities for data outside of SAP S/4HANA and finance
• On-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment

Key benefits

Real-time data access

Consolidate planned and actual data in real time, both before and after closing. Necessary adjustments can be made locally and results provided immediately.

An accelerated financial close process

Combine financial, managerial, and operational data into a single repository and accelerate performance with real-time processes and analytics.

Unified consolidation and transactional tasks

Manage consolidation with an integrated environment, reduce data movements, and eliminate time-consuming reconciliation processes and analysis of inconsistencies.

Key features

Unified entity and group close reporting

• Access a single source of truth for local operational and group-level data
• Drill down from consolidated reports to transactional data
• Integrate with the SAP S/4HANA solution for central finance

Continuous accounting

• Identify and correct issues pre-close
• Distribute workloads continuously and evenly over the accounting period
• Achieve real-time performance monitoring

Advanced group consolidation features

• Enable finance team collaboration across embedded intercompany reconciliation processes
• Support inter- and intra-segment elimination with innovative reporting functionality
• Use flexible user-defined validation rules and drill down to context information and underlying journals

Integrate data from sources beyond finance and SAP S/4HANA

• Jump-start projects with templates for standard data collection tasks
• Accelerate ESG reporting projects
• Manage your manual data collection process
• Automate data load from external systems in group reporting