Customer stories / Oxford Summer Courses

Education & International Programmes

The system was the easy part.

How a seasonal education business made finance adoption stick and connected payables across five platforms.

ERP Rescue ยท Integration Reliability ยท Managed Run

Oxford Summer Courses
5Platforms connected
1Payables chain
OngoingManaged Run

The situation

What finance needed to control

The finance system was live, but the surrounding work still crossed separate expense, approval, banking and payment platforms. A small team was acting as the integration layer during its busiest season.

Approvers were often away from desks while programmes were running. Slow or rigid steps encouraged workarounds, delayed reconciliation and weakened adoption.

What TechFarben did

Built the operating path end to end

  • Connected expenses, invoice approval, banking and payment execution to the ledger.
  • Designed approval routes and thresholds around how programme leaders work during the season.
  • Automated bank feeds and reconciliation across multiple institutions.
  • Fixed reports and recurring process faults that were driving people back to spreadsheets.
  • Delivered improvements as tracked changes and stayed on Managed Run.

The result

What changed in operation

Payables now runs through one connected chain across five platforms. Data is entered once and follows the approved route to payment.

Adoption is supported by a process that is faster in daily use. The ongoing run model keeps the estate aligned as the programme cycle changes.

Operating view

The control path

See how the operating flow is structured
01Invoice or expense
02Approval
03Payment
04Ledger and reconciliation

Start with the operating constraint.

Tell us where the close, transaction flow or group reporting is failing. We will tell you whether it is the kind of problem we fix.

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