Process Intelligence and Automation

We can analyze your processes and identify improvement potential, with the aim of creating added value through process optimization and automation. Quality assurance in processing tax data has a high priority here. We have optimized and stabilized business and financial processes in many tax compliance management projects.

  • Automating tax processes (e.g. advance VAT returns) and control routines (e.g. risk-control matrix)
  • Integrating operational tax function activities into end-to-end business and financial processes (e.g. establishing tax data models and assistance systems in order-to-cash processes)
  • Analyzing and documenting processes using common notation languages (e.g. BPMN 2.0) and process mining
  • Robotic process automation and application programming interfaces for heterogeneous system environments
  • Automated data transformation with ETL tools for preparing source data and entering it in target systems
  • Developing and providing assistance systems for compliance with tax requirements in the recording, categorization and processing of tax-relevant business transactions

We work along a broad spectrum. At one end, we take simple manual declaration processes and transform them into contemporary workflows with maximum automation. At the other, we take complex end-to-end processes (e.g. purchase to pay) and set up road-tested standard processes and user-friendly software solutions along the value chain to integrate the processing of business transactions into a control system with central tax data management.

When it comes to analyzing and optimizing your processes, we combine our human expertise with technical tools such as process mining where required. For example, we automate workflows using robotic process automation, transform data into new target formats with ETL tools, read data from any files with smart software (e.g. invoice data for input tax posting), and provide customized assistance systems using low-code applications (e.g. for contract management or G/L account or tax code determination).

Publications:

  • Digitale Steuerprozesse für indirekte Steuern, Betriebs-Berater 2019, 2462-2468 (Maier)
  • Low Code Anwendungen im Steuerrecht, Der Betrieb 2022, (Hüsing/Liekenbrock/Weber)