Case Study: South East Water achieves streamlined, secure budgeting and 400+ annual work-hour savings with Prophix Software

A Refreshing Take on Finance for South East Water

South East Water supplies drinking water to more than 2.2 million customers in the south-east of England. Its finance team was struggling with a cumbersome budgeting process that relied on 100+ interlinked, multi‑tab spreadsheets consolidated manually across multiple hierarchy levels, causing weeks-long delays, error risk and concerns about sharing sensitive data by email.

By implementing Prophix CPM, South East Water now distributes standardized templates, assigns role‑based workflow permissions, and uses a web client for automated, secure budgeting. Integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP and payroll uploads from I‑Trent enable drill‑through to transactional detail and invoice images, fully automated consolidation, faster approvals and improved accuracy—delivering an estimated saving of at least 400 work hours per annual cycle and a platform for expanded reporting and employee‑level payroll analysis.

South East Water