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Oracle EPM & OneStream for Central Government & Public Sector
Public-sector finance doesn’t behave like commercial finance, and most EPM consultancies have never had to learn the difference. We have — over twenty years of work across New Zealand central government and Australian state and local government. Some of those engagements are current and some have run their course; the knowledge stays, and we can back it up when you ask.
A government budget is built against appropriations, not a commercial P&L. Departments and Crown entities consolidate under public-sector accounting standards to deadlines that don’t move, forecasts run for years rather than a single cycle, and the workforce is the largest line on the page. We’ve worked inside these problems for over a decade — quietly, because most of it can’t be named.
Over two decades we’ve worked across New Zealand central government — departments and Crown entities spanning revenue, customs, social development, housing and urban development, environmental regulation, education, natural-hazards cover and accident compensation — and across an Australian state treasury, state justice and emergency-services agencies, and city and regional councils on both sides of the Tasman. We’ve delivered both directly and as the EPM specialist inside partner-led programmes for the major consultancies. Some of these are current engagements; others have run their course. Either way the institutional knowledge sits with us, and we can speak to the specifics of public-sector close, budgeting and reporting when you ask.
Appropriations, not P&L
Budgets built and tracked against Votes and appropriations, with the discipline that the Estimates and multi-year forward forecasts demand — not commercial planning with a public-sector label.
Whole-of-government consolidation
Departments and Crown entities rolling up under public-sector accounting standards (PBE IPSAS) to fixed reporting and Treasury deadlines.
Workforce as the biggest line
Large-headcount FTE and workforce planning, where personnel is the dominant cost and the hardest forecast to get right.
Many systems, no common chart
Heterogeneous agency finance and HR systems with no shared chart of accounts, mapped to a single reporting structure.
Agency systems
- Finance & HR / payroll systems
- Oracle & SAP ERP
- No common chart of accounts
Oracle EPM / OneStream
- Appropriations & forward-estimates budgeting
- Whole-of-government / Crown consolidation
- Workforce & FTE planning
Outputs
- Statutory & Treasury reporting (PBE IPSAS)
- Estimates & budget papers
- Agency dashboards
Agency systems map to a unified reporting chart; one platform carries budgeting, consolidation and workforce planning through to statutory output.
The engagements below are described by type. The clients are real and the work spans current and past programmes; confidentiality is why they aren’t named.
A national agency — decade-long EPM programme
From an initial Hyperion Planning build to a multi-year programme of appropriations budgeting, forecasting and statutory reporting, run as successive delivery increments over more than ten years.
A state treasury — whole-of-government budgeting
Operating and supporting a state treasury’s budget and consolidation platform, including supplementary returns from agencies and a supporting data-warehouse programme.
A major council — planning & consolidation
Long-running consolidation, capital and activity planning and cost allocation for a large metropolitan council, including a move from on-premise Hyperion to cloud planning.
Budgeting against appropriations, not a P&L?
We understand Votes, forward estimates, Crown consolidation and workforce planning — from twenty years inside ANZ public-sector finance. Ask us anything.