Ignition Solutions

Financial Control and Margin Assurance

Turn complexity into confidence. Protect margin - power growth.

Retail energy finance teams face volatile input costs, intricate settlement rules and fragmented data. Month-end close is slow, margin leakage is hard to see, and audit demands keep rising. Ignition changes that - bringing timely access to data, integrated ledgers, and settlement-grade insight into one place.

Financial Control & Margin Assurance unifies ledger accounting, gross margin modelling and revenue assurance capabilities to accelerate close, surface risk, and provide a single source of financial truth across B2C, SME, and I&C portfolios.

What it Solves

Slow, manual month-end close driven by inefficient processes and scattered data sources. Ignition captures transactions in near-real time and at fine granularity, reducing effort and speeding reporting.

Unbilled revenue and imbalance risk that’s hard to quantify. Create high-fidelity views of unbilled accounts and imbalances to assess portfolio exposure and prioritise corrective actions.

Opaque gross margins and tariff performance at the meter and customer level. The solution replicates settlement to calculate wholesale, imbalance, and network costs per meter - clearly exposing margin and leakage.

Maintaining portfolio coverage in the context of regulatory and market evolutions. Constant innovation and model alignment ensure proactive compliance; for example, comprehensive support for the UK’s transition to Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS).

Fragmented systems and rekeying between billing, payments and customer management. Finance is integrated with Ignition modules to provide a single view of the truth.

Audit burden and compliance uncertainty. Built-in controls and transparent data lineage simplify audits and strengthen governance.

Capabilities

Integrated Ledger Accounting

Real-time double-entry ledgers with immutable audit trail; configurable charts of accounts and posting rules; seamless extracts and reporting.

Gross Margin Modelling

Settlement-aligned models deliver meter-level revenues, costs, and margins with temporal versioning and complete reconciliation to Ignition, automating unbilled revenue postings and margin assurance checks.

Revenue Assurance

Comprehensive views of revenue by customer and register, identification of readings requiring corrective action, and visibility of charges issued/not yet billed.

Reporting & Analytics

Customisable, month-on-month reporting with actionable insights, presented from a single data source.

Operational Integration

Natively connected to Billing, Payments, and Customer Management to remove rekeying and maintain finance/ops alignment.

Controls & Governance

Built-in controls demonstrate data accuracy and streamline audit readiness across month-end processes.

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Business Outcomes

Faster month-end close and reduced finance effort
Lower cost-to-serve through automation and one data source
Clear visibility of margin and leakage to improve pricing and portfolio performance
Stronger audit readiness and regulatory confidence
Unified finance–operations decision making that accelerates action

Use Cases

Automated month-end & close: Real-time ledgers and reconciliations shorten reporting cycles.
Margin assurance & leakage detection: Meter-level cost/revenue reconciliation highlights anomalies and recovery opportunities.
Unbilled revenue tracking: Ageing and automation of postings to quantify exposure and improve cash forecasting.
Tariff performance analysis: Customer-level gross margin views support pricing optimisation and product iteration.
I&C portfolio reconciliation: Consolidated, settlement-grade data simplifies complex, multi-site accounts.

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