A consulting practice built around one persistent problem - financial operations that still run on spreadsheets and manual approvals when they no longer should.
The founders of Cefopue spent years inside finance teams watching the same pattern repeat: a company grows, its transaction volume grows, but the underlying processes stay the same - a mix of emailed approvals, exported CSV files, and reconciliation done by hand at month end.
That experience shaped what we do. Since 2021, we have worked with finance and operations teams to map their existing workflows, identify where digital tooling genuinely helps, and implement changes that hold up under audit pressure and staff turnover.
We are based in Galway and work with clients across Ireland. The geographic spread matters to us - a company in Letterkenny should have the same access to structured financial systems consulting as one in Dublin's docklands.
Roisin spent eight years in corporate finance before moving into consulting. She focuses on close cycle design and accounts payable restructuring, and tends to ask uncomfortable questions about why a process exists before suggesting how to change it.
Darragh comes from an ERP implementation background and now works on the systems side of engagements - mapping current-state workflows, identifying integration points, and scoping what tooling is actually necessary versus what vendors want to sell.
Aoife manages the relationship side of projects - intake, scoping calls, progress reviews. She makes sure that what gets delivered matches what was actually asked for, which sounds simple but takes real effort across a multi-month engagement.
Tomasz handles the technical mapping work - data flows between systems, transformation rules, and the testing that confirms a new process behaves correctly before it goes live. He is particularly focused on reducing the manual exception handling that plagues most finance integrations.
Engagements start with a structured discovery phase - typically two to three weeks of interviews, process observation, and documentation review. Nothing gets recommended until we understand what is already there and why it was built that way.
"The team did not come in with a predetermined answer. They spent three weeks understanding our AP process before making any recommendations. The changes we implemented reduced our close cycle from eleven days to six - but more importantly, the process is now something our team can actually maintain without external help."
"We had tried to digitise our approval workflows twice before and both times it created more problems than it solved. Cefopue identified why those attempts failed within the first week. The third implementation has been running without major issues for fourteen months."
Engagements completed across Ireland
Industries served, from manufacturing to professional services
Average months clients stay engaged after initial project
Clients who expanded scope after first engagement
We document the current state in enough detail to spot where manual steps are load-bearing versus where they are just habit. This takes time but prevents the wrong solution from being built quickly.
We are not resellers for any platform. Recommendations are based on what the organisation can actually operate and maintain - not on what integrates neatly with a product we happen to sell.
Changes are tested with the people who will use them daily. Edge cases surface during this phase, not after go-live. We stay involved through the first full close cycle to catch anything that did not appear in testing.
The goal is a process your team can run, audit, and modify without calling us. Documentation, runbooks, and training are part of every engagement - not an optional add-on.