Case Study: Lonrho achieves faster financial close and lower total cost of ownership with OneStream Software

Lonrho - Customer Case Study

Lonrho is a London‑listed investment group active in 12 countries across Sub‑Saharan Africa, focused on infrastructure, transportation, support services and natural resources. The finance team was burdened by unsupported, unstable Hyperion systems that were costly to maintain, produced slow, manual consolidation and lacked direct integration with source systems — driving a need for a single, cost‑effective CPM platform to standardize reporting, consolidation, forecasting and analysis.

Lonrho selected OneStream (implemented with Concentric Solutions) as a unified platform, leveraging Extensible Dimensionality®, Guided Workflows and built‑in audit controls to automate currency conversion, on‑the‑fly intercompany matching and forecast seeding. The result was a significantly faster close, streamlined budgeting and forecasting, greater transparency and accountability, large efficiency gains that freed finance to analyze results instead of preparing them, and a substantially lower total cost of ownership.

Lonrho

James Manuel

Group Financial Controller