Case Study: GDS Group improves global expense control and ROI visibility with Payhawk

Tracking global spend and ROI at GDS Group

GDS Group, a global digital events and event services company operating across the UK, USA, Kosovo, and Europe, needed a better way to manage corporate cards and expense tracking across projects. Before Payhawk, the finance team relied on manual Excel spreadsheets, paper receipts, and slow approval workflows, which made it difficult to see spend in real time or understand ROI by event.

Payhawk provided GDS Group with a spend management platform featuring corporate cards, OCR receipt capture, custom fields, and NetSuite integration, allowing expenses to be coded directly to project codes and tracked live across multiple entities. With Payhawk, GDS Group improved reporting accuracy and month-end visibility, saved the finance team over 15 hours a month on coding expenses, and reduced another 10+ hours of back-and-forth for non-finance staff, while enabling faster approvals and better collaboration across the business.

GDS Group

Nick Millard

VP Finance