A Faster Month-End Close for Healthcare Teams on Infor CloudSuite
ECS pinpoints what's delaying your month-end close — reports that don't tie, spreadsheet workarounds, late clinical-system postings — and fixes it with fixed-price sprints built and validated in your CloudSuite Financials tenant.
20+ years of Infor financial reporting. Certified Project Management.
What's delaying your close?
Reports don't tie to the GL
You can't close what you can't reconcile. If your subsystem reports and your general ledger tell different stories every month, your team is burning close days on detective work instead of closing.
The fix: Our Reconciliation Tie-Out Sprint. A reconciliation framework anchored to delivered CSF reports — tied out, documented, and repeatable — so variances surface in minutes, not days.
Board reports are built by hand
The numbers are closed, but the board package takes another three days of copy-paste, formatting, and triple-checking. The close isn't done until the board book is.
The fix: Our Board Reporting Sprint. A streamlined board reporting process built on validated CSF reports — so the package assembles in hours, not days.
Month-end runs on spreadsheets
If your close depends on someone rekeying CloudSuite data into Excel, you have a single point of failure with a vacation schedule — and a close that's slower than your system.
The fix: Our Manual Reporting Replacement Sprint. We inventory every manual workaround and replace them with delivered or custom CSF reports that run themselves.
Clinical system postings arrive late or wrong
Epic or Meditech journals that fail, post late, or don't reconcile to the GL stall everything downstream — and you usually find out on day eight of close.
The fix: Our Interface Reconciliation Sprint. Daily interface reconciliation reporting with exception alerts, so a failed posting is caught the morning after it happens, not at month end.
Budget variance research eats the close
When department managers can't answer their own budget questions, those questions land on finance — during close week, when there's no time to answer them.
The fix: Our Budget-to-Actual Self-service Sprint. Self-service budget-to-actual reports for managers, plus in-month variance alerts that flag problems weeks before close instead of during it.
Close Fix Sprints
Every slow close has a cause — reports that don't tie, spreadsheet workarounds, late clinical-system postings, manual board prep. A Close Fix Sprint targets one cause: we diagnose it, build the fix with delivered and custom CSF reports in your tenant, validate against a real closed period, and document the procedure so your team runs it without us. Fixed price, three to four weeks, with 30 days of close monitoring included.
Month-End Close Quick Start
When more than one thing is slowing your close, the Quick Start is the full engagement: a complete bottleneck map, a period-end reporting and reconciliation package built and validated in your tenant, a day-by-day close runbook, and live ECS support through your next close. Six weeks, fixed price, ending with proof — not a recommendations deck.
Close Monitoring Retainer
The close is never "done" — reports drift, processes change, new questions arrive. The retainer keeps a reporting partner on call: a weekly Close Health snapshot tracking tie-outs and open items, design documents whenever you need a new report, and priority support during close week. Every sprint includes the first 30 days so you experience it before you commit.
Plans and Pricing
Fixed prices, published — no hourly meters, no surprises. Every engagement starts with a scoping call to confirm fit.
Sprint fees credit toward a Quick Start within 90 days
Recommended
Sprint
$10,000 Fixed Price
What's included
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One close-delay cause, fixed
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Design document, build, and validation in your CSF tenant
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Documented procedure with named owners
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30 days of close monitoring in your client portal
Quick Start
from ~$28,000
What's included
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Full close bottleneck map and design package
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Period-end reconciliation framework for core subsystem tie-outs (AP, accruals, cash) — built and validated against a real closed period. Additional subsystems — inventory, assets, projects, payroll — scoped as add-ons.
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Day-by-day close runbook, configured in Close Management
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Live ECS support through your next full close
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30 days of close monitoring after go-live
Retainer
Monthly
What's included
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Weekly Close Health snapshot in your portal
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Design documents — request anytime through your portal, up to two per month
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Member pricing on sprints and builds
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Priority support during close week
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about scope, price, and how engagements run.
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Do you investigate why prior periods don't tie?
No — and that's deliberate, to protect your budget. ECS builds the go-forward framework: reports, reconciliations, and procedures validated against a real closed period. If validation surfaces a historical variance, we document it in a findings register and quote that work separately or refer a trusted partner. You never pay sprint prices for open-ended forensics.
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What do you need from us?
Reporting access to your CSF sandbox and production, one fully closed prior period to validate against, and a named lead (usually the controller or accounting manager) for about two to three hours a week. A prerequisite checklist gates every kickoff — it's how fixed timelines stay fixed.
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We're not in healthcare — does this still apply?
Yes. Healthcare is where ECS goes deepest — including the clinical-system reconciliation challenges unique to hospitals — but our experience spans 20+ years of Infor financial reporting across many industries, and slow closes work the same way everywhere. Book a call and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
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What does "fixed price" actually cover — and what does "fixed" mean?
The price covers everything defined in the signed statement of work — that's where scope lives. Week one then produces the detailed design document within that scope, which you approve before anything gets built. "Fixed" means the defined deliverables ship: reports built, reconciliations tied out against a real closed period, procedures documented. It does not mean unlimited investigation — anything discovered outside the SOW is documented in a findings register and quoted separately, never silently absorbed and never silently billed.
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What happens when the engagement ends?
Every sprint and Quick Start includes 30 days of close monitoring in your client portal — the same service the monthly retainer provides. If it's valuable, you extend; if not, you keep the reports, the runbook, and the documentation. Your team owns everything we build.
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How fast can we start?
Engagements anchor to your accounting calendar — we schedule kickoff so the final weeks land on your actual close. Once prerequisites are confirmed, the next available close cycle is typically yours.
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Doesn't CloudSuite already include Reconciliation Management and Close Management?
Yes — and most finance teams have barely turned them on. The modules are workflow engines: they schedule, route, and track reconciliations once someone has designed what gets reconciled, to what, by whom, under which policies. ECS sprints do that design and configuration, so your close runs on Infor's own delivered machinery instead of spreadsheets sitting next to it. If your modules are already configured and the close is still slow, the bottleneck is upstream — and that's what the other sprints fix.
Our Company
ECS Reporting Solutions helps finance teams on Infor CloudSuite Financials close faster. As an Infor Preferred Delivery Partner with 20+ years of Infor financial reporting experience, ECS focuses on one problem: the month-end close delays caused by reports that don't tie, manual workarounds, and late-discovered posting issues. Every engagement is fixed-price, built in your tenant, validated against a real closed period, and documented so your team owns it.