THE CFO'S MONTH-END
THE BOARD REPORT IS
DUE ON THE 1ST.
you close on the 15th.
Two weeks of chasing eight department heads, reconciling by hand, and hunting a variance, only to deliver numbers the board needed twelve days ago. Blent collapses the whole close.
- Day 1 Eight emails to eight department heads. The wait begins.
- Day 4 Wrong formats. Someone forgot. The F&B controller is on holiday.
- Day 8 Reconcile by hand, find a variance, chase it for two days.
- Day 12 The board report finally lands. The numbers are right, the decisions are late.
- Overnight PMS, POS, payroll, and accounting consolidate automatically.
- Day 1 Board report formatted, in the owner's inbox. You spend the 10 days on strategy.
THE PRODUCT
THREE TOOLS THAT PUT
FINANCE IN CONTROL.
Automated P&L
P&L generated automatically from your accounting system, by department, by property, by group. No manual collection. No reconciliation. Formatted for your reporting structure from day one.
→ Automatic consolidation from Sage, Xero, SAP, M3, nightly or more frequent→ P&L by department and property, consolidated across all entities automatically→ Board-ready format: owner report delivered on the 1st, every month
Budget vs Actual
Your approved budget vs real-time actuals, by cost centre, by department, by property. Variances flagged automatically as they accumulate, not after month-end closes. Finance controls the gap, not the gap controls finance.
→ Live actuals against approved budget, by cost centre→ Variance alerts: fires when any department crosses threshold mid-month→ Cross-property comparison: which property is on budget, which is over
What-If Scenarios
Model the financial impact of any decision before making it. What if occupancy drops 10%? What if you open a new outlet? What if food costs rise 3%? Blent runs the numbers against your actual cost structure, not a generic template.
→ Multiple scenario comparison: Base / Optimistic / Pessimistic side by side→ Actual cost structure: scenarios built on your real data, not industry averages→ New property / outlet: financial projection for board approval
PRODUCTIVITY & LABOUR COST
LABOUR IS YOUR
biggest controllable line.
and your blindest.
Across the group, labour is the cost you can actually move. Blent puts labour cost next to the revenue each property produced, so the site dragging the P&L shows up by name, live, not at year-end.
One ratio, every property, on one screen. You see which sites turn payroll into revenue and which carry staff the revenue does not justify.
YTD
the overrun
if ratio restored
not at year-end
AI FINANCE CONTROLLER
YOUR DATA IS LIVE.
now it tells you
WHERE TO ACT.
The AI Finance Controller monitors P&L, budget variances, and cash flow continuously and delivers a monthly briefing with specific findings and recommended actions.
→ Monthly P&L variance report: delivered 1st of every month, automatically→ Budget overrun alerts: fires mid-month when any line crosses threshold→ Cash flow monitoring: liquidity peaks and gaps flagged before they hit→ Cross-property anomalies: spots when one property deviates from the group→ Scenario trigger alerts: warns when actuals approach pessimistic scenario→ Board-ready summary: formatted for owner or investor reportingF&B COGS variance: +€8'400 vs budget this month. Beverage costs up 18%, unusual spike detected across 3 properties simultaneously.
→ Review supplier pricing or investigate inventory shrinkage. Flagged for CFO review before board meeting.
Group labour cost at +17% vs budget YTD. Hotel Lyon driving the overrun, labour ratio at 36% vs 30% target.
→ Review Lyon staffing model with GM. Potential corrective action: €22'000/month saving if ratio restored.
Group labour cost at 29.8%.of revenue, within 30% target for the second consecutive month after schedule adjustments in April.
→ No action required. Maintain current staffing model through Q3.
INTEGRATIONS
your ACCOUNTING SYSTEM.
already connected.
Native connections to every major hotel accounting, payroll, and ERP system. Blent pulls the data, consolidates it, and keeps it current: no manual imports, no CSV uploads.
THE IMPACT
NUMBERS THAT SHOW
IN YOUR CLOSE TIME.
THE COMPLETE PLATFORM
FINANCE SEES THE NUMBERS.
blent feeds them, live.
A clean close depends on clean data from every department. Connected to the rest of the platform, finance stops reconciling and starts leading, with the AI and the open data layer behind it.
Blent connects to your accounting system (Sage, Xero, SAP, M3, QuickBooks) and pulls revenue and cost data automatically from PMS, POS, payroll, and finance systems. It consolidates P&L by department, property, and group, generating the monthly report without any manual data collection. The board report lands in the owner's inbox on the 1st of the month, formatted and ready, every month.
What-If scenario planning lets CFOs create and compare multiple financial projections based on different assumptions, occupancy drops 10%, food costs rise 3%, a new outlet opens in Q3. Blent's scenarios connect to your actual live data, so each projection reflects your real cost structure and revenue baseline, not an industry-average template. Create Base, Optimistic, and Pessimistic scenarios side by side and see the GOP impact of each assumption instantly.
Blent has native integrations with Sage, Xero, SAP, QuickBooks, M3, Sun Systems, Profitstars and 12+ additional hotel accounting systems. For payroll: ADP, Ceridian, Sage Payroll. For PMS: Opera, Mews, Apaleo, and 25+ others. All integrations are maintained by Blent, no custom development from your finance or IT team. If your system isn't in the library, Blent builds the connector typically within one week.
The AI Finance Controller monitors P&L, budget variances, and cash flow continuously. On the 1st of every month it delivers a structured financial briefing, identifying variances by department, flagging any line item that deviated from budget, tracking cash flow risk windows, and recommending specific corrective actions with estimated financial impact. It also fires mid-month alerts when any department's spending trajectory suggests it will exceed budget before close. No setup beyond loading your approved budget.
