I spent ten years managing the financial performance of large groups, and the same problem followed me everywhere: an Excel workbook that always ends up breaking.
My career took me through Atlantem, Entremont and TotalEnergies: manufacturing, food processing, energy. Three sectors with nothing in common except one thing: at every close, I reopened a workbook patched together with tabs and nested formulas, hoping none of them had broken since the previous month. One badly copied cell, one reference that jumps, and half a day is lost hunting for the error instead of analysing the figures.
The more companies I worked for, the more I found exactly the same pattern. The problem was not the company. It was the tool, or rather the lack of one: everyone rebuilt their financial management by hand, from scratch, with whatever was at hand.
What struck me is that you never need to re-enter anything. Every French company already produces, for every financial year, a complete and structured file of all its accounting entries: the FEC, mandatory for the tax authorities. All the information is there, with up to 15 years of history if needed. Nobody really uses it. It sits in a drawer while people rebuild by hand in Excel what it already contains.
With an AI able to read and interpret this kind of data in a few seconds, the equation changes completely. What used to take me days of restatements can fit in 30 seconds, without a single formula at risk of breaking.
I built Fintusk so that every company can benefit from this, not only those that can afford a ten-person finance team. Drop in your FEC, your trial balance or even a simple bank statement: in a few seconds Fintusk delivers what used to take a senior management controller days. Simple enough for a business owner on their own, robust enough for an accounting firm or a group.
It is the tool I wish I had had in every position I have held.
Now based in Tarbes, I also work directly with business owners and accounting firms through Fintusk Conseil.