Case Study: Shelter Afrique achieves rapid, accurate 4-week annual budgeting across 44 countries with Solver

Solver Helps Shelter Afrique Improve Its Annual Planning Processes

Shelter Afrique, the pan‑African development bank focused exclusively on housing and real estate across 44 countries, faced a complex annual planning challenge: one legal entity, five currencies, a growing loan book and evolving IFRS rules. The finance team relied on error‑prone, decentralized Excel spreadsheets that made consolidation, reconciliation and version control slow and unreliable, stretching the budget cycle to three months and undermining stakeholder trust—while a hard‑close deadline for the Board meeting added pressure.

Working with Dynaworx, Shelter Afrique implemented Solver’s Reporting, Planning and Data Warehouse integrated with its Oracle ERP to centralize data, enforce controls and decentralize input. The solution delivered a trusted, flexible plan—budgeting was completed in a record four weeks (with subsequent cycles reduced to days), data accuracy reached 100%, scenario modelling and multicurrency reporting became straightforward, deadlines were met and organizational confidence in the numbers was restored, with expected long‑term savings in accounting and audit time.

Shelter Afrique

Hilary Kilonzo

Manager of Finance