NetSuite Alliance Partner

Your ERP project deserves an accountant in the room

Ballards is an Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partner. Implementation led by people who speak fluent finance.
Most ERP implementations fail in the same place: the gap between the technology team and the finance team. Configuration meets reality. Reports meet auditors. The chart of accounts meets the people who actually have to close the month.
Ballards closes that gap by standing on both sides of it. We are a chartered accountancy firm with a technology consulting practice inside it, accredited by Oracle as a NetSuite Alliance Partner. So when we implement NetSuite for you, the people building it know what good month-end looks like, what your auditors will ask, and how your finance team really works.

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WHAT IS ORACLE NETSUITE?

One system for the whole business

Oracle NetSuite is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading cloud ERP platforms. It runs your finance, operations, reporting, CRM, projects, stock and ecommerce on a single system, in real time, from anywhere.

If you are still pulling management accounts together from a finance system, a separate CRM, and a stock system that nobody really trusts, you already know what NetSuite is for. It is the platform companies move to when the patchwork stops scaling and the numbers stop adding up first time.

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What NetSuite covers

Finance and management accounting
Real-time dashboards and reporting
CRM, sales and customer data
Stock, order and supply chain management
Projects and professional services automation
Ecommerce
Planning, budgeting and forecasting
Multi-entity, multi-currency and international operations
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Over 42,000 organisations run NetSuite globally. For most of them the win is the same one: one version of the truth, faster month-ends, better decisions, and a system that grows with the business instead of getting in its way.

WHY CHOOSE NETSUITE

Built for growing businesses that have outgrown the patchwork

One connected platform for finance, operations, reporting, and growth.

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One source of truth

Finance, sales, operations and stock in the same place. No more reconciling multiple systems before you can answer a basic question.

Real-time reporting

Live dashboards instead of month-old spreadsheets. Decisions made on data your team actually trusts.

Scales with you

Designed for businesses adding entities, opening overseas, increasing transaction volume or preparing for investment. NetSuite is built to absorb growth, not buckle under it.

Automation that pays back

Routine finance and operational tasks done by the system, not your team. Less manual processing, fewer errors, more time on the work that actually matters.

Cloud-native

Accessible securely from anywhere, on any device, with no servers to maintain and no version upgrades to plan.

WHY BALLARDS

A system can be configured. A business needs to be understood

The biggest risk in any ERP project isn’t the software, it’s the people configuring it without truly understanding the business. That leads to a chart of accounts that doesn’t fit reporting needs, revenue recognition that won’t hold up in an audit, and month-end processes that look good on paper but fall apart in practice.

Ballards is different. The people leading your NetSuite project work alongside those who audit businesses, file tax returns, build forecast models, and prepare companies for sale or investment. Our technology consultants don’t have to learn what good finance looks like, they work next to it every day.

We start with your finance function

Most ERP partners start with a software demo. We start with how you actually close the books, where your reporting falls down, and what your management team needs to see. Then we work out what NetSuite needs to do.

We bring the wider firm with us

Tax structure, audit readiness, corporate finance, business strategy, R&D claims, even recruitment for the new finance team that NetSuite will need. It is all in the building. Your NetSuite project plugs into a much wider advisory relationship.

You will actually talk to a Partner

Sean Devlin leads our IT and Digital Transformation practice and stays close to every NetSuite engagement. You will not be passed down to a junior consultant and a project manager you've never met.

WHY BALLARDS

A system can be configured. A business needs to be understood

We start with your finance function

We bring the wider firm with us

You will actually talk to a Partner

Sean Devlin leads our IT and Digital Transformation practice and stays close to every NetSuite engagement. You will not be passed down to a junior consultant and a project manager you've never met.

WHAT IS A NETSUITE ALLIANCE PARTNER?

Accredited by Oracle. Accountable to you

Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partners are the firms Oracle accredits to advise, implement, configure, integrate and optimise NetSuite for end customers. Alliance Partners deliver around 40 percent of NetSuite implementations worldwide and are typically the firms that bring industry expertise, finance and business advisory depth, and consulting capability to the platform.

Being an Alliance Partner means our consultants are trained and certified by Oracle, that we have direct access to the NetSuite product, support and roadmap, and that Oracle stands behind our right to advise on the platform.

What we can do for you as your Alliance Partner

Help you decide whether NetSuite is actually the right system for your business
Design how NetSuite should be set up around your finance, operations and reporting
Configure, customise and integrate it with your other systems
Migrate your data and get your team comfortable using it
Build the dashboards and management reporting your board actually wants
Support and optimise the system after go-live, so it keeps earning its keep

WHO WE HELP

Growing businesses that have hit the ceiling of their current systems

There is usually a moment when a business knows its current system can no longer keep up. Reporting takes too long. Numbers don’t agree across systems. Month-end is a fortnight. Intercompany transactions, overseas trading, multiple currencies and group reporting start to create workarounds instead of answers. The finance team is processing instead of thinking, and decisions get made on a hunch because the data is two weeks behind.

If any of that sounds familiar, NetSuite is probably part of the answer. We typically help businesses that are:

Operating across multiple entities, currencies or countries.

Running too much of the business through spreadsheets.

Preparing for investment, acquisition, growth or exit.

Doing £10m to £250m turnover and growing.

Building or rebuilding a finance function that needs a proper platform underneath it.

Struggling with reporting their PE house or board can actually rely on.

"What sort of

system do you use

for that?"

That is often where the NetSuite conversation begins. Not with a software pitch, but with a practical question about how the business is really being run.

For many growing businesses, the issue is not that their finance system is broken. It is that the business has outgrown it. Spreadsheets, manual processes and workarounds start to fill the gaps. Reporting takes longer. Information becomes harder to trust. The finance team spends more time reconciling the numbers than using them.

If that sounds familiar, it may be time to ask whether there is a better way. And if you want to start that conversation, we are happy to have it.

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HOW WE WORK

Five stages, no surprises

Understand

We get under the bonnet of how your business actually runs today. Systems, processes, reporting, frustrations, plans. No demo until we have done this.

Advise

We tell you straight whether NetSuite is the right answer. If it isn't, we say so. If it is, we tell you what good looks like.

Design

We design the NetSuite setup around your business. Chart of accounts, reporting structure, workflows, integrations, the lot.

Implement

We configure, integrate, migrate the data, train your team and go live. With pace, and with a partner staying close.

Optimise

We do not disappear at go-live. We stay involved, helping you refine reporting, add modules, integrate new tools and get more out of the platform as the business grows.

NetSuite Alliance Partner

Your ERP project deserves an accountant in the room

WHAT IS ORACLE NETSUITE?

One system for the whole business

WHY CHOOSE NETSUITE

Built for growing businesses that have outgrown the patchwork

One source of truth

Real-time reporting

Scales with you

Automation that pays back

Cloud-native

WHY BALLARDS

A system can be configured. A business needs to be understood

We start with your finance function

We bring the wider firm with us

You will actually talk to a Partner

WHY BALLARDS

A system can be configured. A business needs to be understood

We start with your finance function

We bring the wider firm with us

You will actually talk to a Partner

WHAT IS A NETSUITE ALLIANCE PARTNER?

Accredited by Oracle. Accountable to you

WHO WE HELP

Growing businesses that have hit the ceiling of their current systems

HOW WE WORK

Five stages, no surprises

Understand

Advise

Design

Implement

Optimise

If your systems are holding you back, let’s talk about what comes next.

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Ballards and Four Squared Recruitment join forces for charity run

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