Finance

Financial discipline, integrated planning, measurable execution

MESA connects strategic planning, capital allocation, tax governance and disclosure in a single operating system — powered by artificial intelligence.

For the Finance team: fewer manual reconciliations, faster decisions, integrated and audit-ready reporting.

MESA per Finance — governance finanziaria integrata con ESG, Risk e Compliance

Context

The real challenges facing the Finance team

In a context of accelerating regulations and increasingly complex portfolios, the Finance function must govern strategic execution, oversee financial and tax risk, and produce consistent, certifiable disclosure on both financial and non-financial data.

Tax governance in isolation

The Tax Control Framework is managed separately from strategic planning.

Slow and unreliable forecasting

Manual reconciliation across disconnected systems takes weeks, with high margins of error.

Capital allocation based on historical logic

Investment decisions do not incorporate forward-looking scenarios, risk analysis or ESG variables.

Financial plans that do not hold up in execution

Budget and strategic plan live in separate environments; at the first difficult quarter, the roadmap starts to crack.

ESG data that cannot be reconciled with financial data

When the two narratives do not converge, credibility with investors and auditors is at risk.

How MESA supports Finance

An operating system for the Finance function: from planning to disclosure

MESA covers the entire financial cycle in a single platform — with no manual reconciliations between separate systems.

MESA supports the definition of value-driver models that link operational variables to financial results, incorporating ESG variables and transition risks as structural components of the plan. MESA’s AI agents continuously analyze market signals and propose scenario updates in real time, without waiting for the next planning cycle.

  • Downside, base and upside scenarios with explicit decision thresholds
  • AI-powered what-if simulations to assess the impact on financial and operational KPIs
  • Sector targets as structured inputs to the budgeting process

MESA manages the initiatives portfolio by linking business cases, capex/opex and expected benefits to priorities, milestones and decision gates. Tax governance — Tax Control Framework, risk monitoring, data-driven planning — is an integral part of this oversight. AI automatically monitors tax risk thresholds and flags anomalies before they become critical issues.

  • Every initiative has an owner, budget, KPIs and a verifiable decision gate
  • Tax risk monitored proactively with automatic AI alerts
  • Continuous alignment between tax strategy and ESG objectives

MESA turns forecasting from a periodic exercise into a continuous process. The platform’s AI engine analyzes plan/actual variances, identifies recurring deviation patterns and suggests corrective actions before the impact takes hold. AI agents operate in the background, aggregating data from ERP and BI systems with no manual intervention.

  • Dashboards updated in real time, with AI flagging the most significant deviations
  • AI agents that continuously monitor KPIs and trigger alerts on configurable thresholds
  • AI agents that pre-fill budget and scenario models based on historical and forward-looking data

MESA unifies the governance of financial and sustainability reporting. AI automates iXBRL tagging, detects inconsistencies between sections of the integrated report and pre-fills regulatory disclosures based on the data already available on the platform.

  • Shared data foundation for the consolidated financial statement and ESG KPIs: a single certified data point
  • Native iXBRL tagging with automated ESMA/ESEF and CSRD validation
  • Reporting times reduced by up to 50% thanks to AI automation

AI Open Agents

AI at the service of the Finance team

Business Value

Where MESA generates value for the Finance team

The benefits are not generic: they stem from specific platform capabilities applied to the day-to-day activities of the Finance function. Each area corresponds to a structural issue that MESA resolves in a measurable way.

Use cases

Finance function activities supported by MESA

From annual planning to financial statement close, from managing the initiatives portfolio to responding to rating agencies: these are the concrete activities where MESA becomes part of the Finance team’s daily work.

Performance & Financial Planning

Dynamic budgeting, AI-driven forecasting and initiatives portfolio management in an integrated system. AI updates scenarios in real time, identifies deviations and supports allocation decisions with predictive models calibrated to the business.

Disclosure Management

Consolidated financial statement and ESG KPIs produced from a single certifiable data foundation. Native iXBRL tagging, automated validation, AI pre-filling of disclosures. Significant reduction in close times.

Transition Plan & Net Zero

The cost of the transition enters financial models as a structural variable. AI simulates the financial impact of different decarbonization pathways and oversees the risk on potentially stranded assets.

Risk Management

ERM, Tax Control Framework and financial controls in a single architecture. AI-assisted what-if simulations to support capital allocation, with full traceability and audit-ready documentation.

Platform fit

MESA in the Finance function’s operating model

MESA does not replace existing ERP or consolidation systems: it integrates with them as a governance, planning and AI layer on top of the data sources the Finance team already oversees.

Integration with existing systems

Native connectors to ERP, BI and financial planning; data in a single environment, with no manual migrations.

No-code configuration, fast go-live

Workflows, scenarios and dashboards configurable independently. Typical go-live in less than 8 weeks.

Structural control and traceability

A complete and tamper-proof audit trail on every decision, change and action. Documentation always ready for auditors and investors.

Regulatory and organizational scalability

Dynamic updates for CSRD, ESRS, ESEF, SFDR and EU Taxonomy. Support for multi-entity structures with automatic consolidation.

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