Challenge
The organisation managed 40+ active Commonwealth contracts across three federal portfolios. Monthly reporting took five business days of senior staff time, pulled together from spreadsheets, email threads, and a desktop accounting tool. Contract variations were tracked in free text in a shared drive and occasionally missed in billing runs. An upcoming PSPF review made the gap in documented Essential Eight controls a board-level concern.
Solution
We ran a two-week discovery covering finance, contract management, and security controls. Business Central was deployed into the existing Azure Australia Central tenant, configured with a contract register tied to AusTender IDs, milestone billing linked to project WBS, and SharePoint-backed document trails. Essential Eight ML2 controls. Application control via MDE, PIM-based admin privileges, macro hardening, MFA on every account, daily offsite backups with quarterly restore tests. Were configured and documented alongside the ERP rollout. Data migration from the legacy accounting package used a triple-backup, dual-validation methodology with zero records lost.
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Results
“The monthly reporting grind is gone. We close the month in half a day instead of a week, and our PSPF review landed with documented Essential Eight evidence rather than apologies.”