Powdr launches multi-entity consolidation to simplify group financial management and forecasting
UK-based strategic finance platform Powdr has launched a new Multi-Entity Consolidation feature, enabling large businesses, growing companies and their stakeholders to model, consolidate, and manage multiple legal entities within a single system.
The feature allows users to create individual Powdr models for each entity and automatically consolidate them at group level, supporting historical reporting, forecasting, and ongoing financial management. Multi-Entity Consolidation is available across all Powdr memberships.
The article also explains how the feature fits into Powdr’s wider strategic finance platform and who it is designed for.
Executive Summary
Multi-Entity Consolidation is a persistent challenge for organisations operating with group structures.
Financial data is often fragmented across accounting software, spreadsheets, and other data sources, making it difficult to gain a clear, reliable group-level view.
This affects everything from management reporting to risk assessment and forward planning.
It is also a vital view if you are assessing mergers, acquisitions or spinouts.
Powdr’s Multi-Entity Consolidation brings entity-level modelling and group-level visibility into one platform, reducing manual effort, cost, and dependency on disconnected tools.
What Multi-Entity Consolidation means in practice
With Powdr’s Multi-Entity Consolidation, each legal entity is modelled independently using the same underlying financial framework.
Those models are then automatically consolidated to produce a clear group level view of profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow, without removing detail at entity level.
Data can be cut in multiple directions – meaning you can analyse your business differently depending on your audience (e.g by category vs by cost centre).
Why multi-entity consolidation is often difficult
For businesses with more than one entity, consolidation is frequently slow and resource-intensive.
Many teams rely on external accountants, specialist consolidation tools, or manual spreadsheet processes, particularly for management accounts and historical consolidation.
This introduces delays, increases cost, and often results in group numbers that are already out of date by the time they are reviewed.
This issue is exacerbated when it comes to models, because weak links between the historical and forecast positions are exposed by consolidation – something entirely corrected by Powdr.
How Powdr’s multi-entity consolidation works
Powdr allows each entity to be brought together consistently, but maintaining each company’s bespoke assumption selecton, structure, and financial logic.
These entity models are automatically consolidated within the platform, creating a single source of truth for group performance while preserving entity-level insight.
This removes the need for exporting data, rebuilding models, or reconciling multiple versions of the same numbers.
Practical benefits for businesses
For operating companies and group financial directors and CFOs, Multi-Entity Consolidation in Powdr enables:
- Faster production of group management accounts
- Alignment between historical reporting and forecasts
- Clear visibility into how individual entities impact group performance
- Reduced reliance on external consolidation support
This makes financial management less reactive and more structured as complexity increases.
Practical benefits for banks and financial institutions
For banks, lenders, and investment teams, Multi-Entity Consolidation improves the review and analysis of group structures.
Standardised modelling and consolidated views make it easier to assess performance, risk, and future scenarios across complex groups.
This reduces the time spent interpreting inconsistent models and increases confidence in the underlying data.
Reducing cost and manual effort
Manual or outsourced Multi-Entity Consolidation often costs businesses between £300 and £5,000 per month for the standalone service.
By bringing consolidation into our modelling packages for no extra cost, Powdr reduces those ongoing costs and removes repetitive manual work from finance teams.
Consolidation becomes part of the core finance workflow rather than a separate exercise that needs managing.
Supporting historical and forward-looking analysis
Powdr’s Multi-Entity Consolidation supports historical reporting alongside forecasting and scenario planning.
Teams can review past performance and understand how future changes, such as pricing, cost structures, or entity-level performance and how it affects the group as a whole.
This keeps reporting and planning connected rather than siloed.
Built into existing workflows
Multi-Entity Consolidation is fully integrated into Powdr’s existing modelling environment.
Users do not need to change how they plan, forecast, or review financial performance. Consolidation happens automatically on top of existing models.
Because the feature is included across all memberships, it is available immediately to both existing and new Powdr customers.
Designed for finance and non-finance teams
Group financial data is presented in a clear, structured format that works for both finance professionals and non-finance stakeholders.
Finance teams retain detail and control, while founders, operators, and decision makers can access consolidated views without navigating complex spreadsheets.
This improves alignment and reduces dependency on external explanation.
Next steps
Multi-Entity Consolidation is available now in Powdr.
If you’re already a Powdr client, you can book a call with our customer team to see the feature in action and understand how it applies to your specific group structure and existing models.
If you’re not yet a customer, you can become a Powdr client and start using Multi-Entity Consolidation immediately as part of the platform, alongside forecasting, scenarios, and strategic finance support.
Book a walkthrough with our customer team, or join Powdr and start using Multi-Entity Consolidation today.
