Case Study: Wakefield College achieves greatly improved financial management with IRIS Financials

Wakefield College - Customer Case Study

Wakefield College, a further education provider across three campuses in West Yorkshire, was struggling with an outdated accounting system that had been in place for 17 years. The finance team spent huge amounts of time extracting, verifying, and formatting data across spreadsheets to produce reports and manage financial records, creating a need for a more automated and integrated solution. Wakefield College chose IRIS Software Group and its IRIS Financials platform to modernize financial management.

IRIS Software Group implemented IRIS Financials with a unified ledger, integrated links to key systems, and tools for real-time reporting, budget holder access, and paperless purchasing. The college gained faster drill-down analysis, reduced queries to the finance team, easier-to-use interfaces for staff, and smoother approval workflows, all while improving financial visibility across the college.

Wakefield College

Julian Andrews

Finance Manager