Case Study: St Thomas More Catholic School streamlines finance and reporting with IRIS Financials

St Thomas More Catholic School - Customer Case Study

St Thomas More Catholic School, a growing Multi Academy Trust in the Tyne and Wear region, needed to replace Sage 200 with a more modern financial management system. Their key challenges were cumbersome manual consolidation, unreliable reporting, VAT 126 issues, and a need for a solution that was easy to use, easy to maintain, and suitable for a multi-school environment.

IRIS Software Group implemented IRIS Financials to provide a single central chart of accounts, instant consolidation, improved purchasing controls, and better reporting. The result was a much more efficient finance function, with VAT 126 report preparation reduced from weeks and up to 20 man-hours to just two hours. IRIS Software Group also helped St Thomas More move toward paperless processes and stronger post-live support, and the school said it would recommend the solution to other academies.

St Thomas More Catholic School

Jim Thomson

Director of Finance and Corporate Services