Audit · Finance Team

AI Finance Audit: Find £30k+ of Wasted Manual Work

Most UK finance teams are bleeding 20–40 hours/week on tasks that an AI workforce could handle overnight. The audit finds them, sizes them, and gives you a build-or-skip decision per task.

The short answer

An AI finance audit is a 1-week paid review of your UK finance team's manual workload — invoices, reconciliations, reporting, AP/AR, expenses. We quantify replaceable hours, fully-loaded £ cost, and deliver a prioritised AI build roadmap. Typical UK SME finds £30k–£80k/yr of replaceable manual work.

What's typically found in a UK finance team

Across UK SMEs, finance teams consistently lose 25–45% of their week to repetitive work. The same patterns appear:

Invoice processing (manual entry, OCR'd badly, or chased by email)
Bank reconciliations done manually each Friday
Monthly reporting assembled by hand from 4–8 sources
Expense approvals routed via email instead of rules
Aged debtor chasing handled by a junior, badly
Supplier statements reconciled line-by-line

How the audit runs

5 working days, fixed-fee. We interview your finance lead and 2–3 team members, screen-record (with consent) the recurring weekly tasks, and map your software stack. Output: a 12-page report with task-by-task hours, £ values and AI feasibility scores.

What you get at the end

A prioritised list with three columns:

Quick wins (build cost <£5k, payback <60 days)
Strategic builds (£5k–£15k, payback 3–6 months)
Skip — humans still better here
A go/no-go recommendation per task

Cost and what happens next

The audit is £1,500 for a small finance team (1–3 people), £2,500 for a larger one. If you commission a build within 90 days, the audit fee is credited against the build cost. About 6 in 10 audits convert to a build.

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UK-specific numbers based on your team, your tasks, your hours. No spreadsheets.

Frequently asked questions

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How long does an AI finance audit take?+

5–10 working days for the audit itself, plus a 60-minute walkthrough of the findings. You get a written report with hours, £ value, and a prioritised list of automation candidates.

Do I have to commit to a build?+

No. The audit is paid (£500–£1,500) and standalone. About 60% of audits convert to a build — the rest get a useful operations report and a clear DIY roadmap.

What do you actually look at?+

Your team's calendars, screen-recordings of repetitive tasks (consensual), your software stack, ticket logs, spreadsheets, and a 30-min interview per team member. We then map every recurring task to its AI replaceability score.

Will my team be threatened by the audit?+

We frame it as 'find the boring stuff, free you up for real work.' Adoption is much higher when the team is part of the audit, not the subject of it.