Simple consolidation and efficient financial processes for leading property group

Success story MCL Land

With multiple revenues and operating streams, fast consolidation and flexible reporting are crucial for the finance team of a multi-faceted company like MCL Land. As MCL Land expands its global footprint, the team also needed an affordable solution that would simplify the financial processes of data collection, consolidation, and reporting. With LucaNet, MCL Land has achieved to save time in the end-to-end finance process all integrated within a single-source-of-truth platform.

With this system, we can easily turn out the segment report and other management reports according to the currency requested and speed up the whole consolidation process for the group. It allows us to drill down to the individual posting level and full currency translation for oversea subsidiaries. It also fully automated all the steps in consolidation such as elimination of intercompany balance and equity elimination.

Chua Yoon Mee
Finance Manager

How MCL Land uses LucaNet software:

  • Fast consolidation and flexible reporting
  • Affordable solution to simplify the financial processes of data collection, consolidation, and reporting

About the company

MCL Land is a leading property group in Singapore and a member of the Jardine Matheson Group under Hongkong Land Holdings. MCL Land has a long track record of building quality homes in Singapore and Malaysia over the last 50 years, as well as an extensive portfolio of prime residential properties in Singapore and Malaysia, which are held through its subsidiaries and associates.

Business Processes

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Industry :

Construction and real estate industry

Core Business :

Property Investment, development and real estate management

Headquarter city :

Singapore (Singapore)

Employees :

50

Website :

MCL Land homepage

The Challenge

Manual Process with Spreadsheets and Control Issues

With the growth of MCL Land and the significantly increased workload within the company's finance team, reforming and upgrading its financial process was paramount in making itself more efficient.  

Furthermore, due to the manual process of data collection and analysis via spreadsheets from multiple subsidiaries, reporting was complicated and time-consuming. This also made it difficult to detect errors and changes in data until the final reports were put together.

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The Solution

Seamless Data Integration and Transparency

Using LucaNet, the team has now eliminated the need to link multiple spreadsheets together. Data is integrated on a one-source-of-truth platform and automatically flows into user-defined reports. Changes in data and format are reflected almost instantaneously, allowing for on-the-spot review and adjustments. With the drill down feature, the team can also efficiently investigate reported numbers down to the source. This allowed MCL Land to do more with reporting and review while enjoying newfound data transparency.

Efficient Financial Consolidation

After a smooth implementation and training period with LucaNet’s professional consultants, MCL Land was able to set up a full self-service consolidation and planning process for a lean team of only three users. Monthly consolidation and comparison reports can now be generated on-demand with just a few clicks.

With the time-savings and error-free information, the team will be able to focus on making meaningful financial analysis and impact for MCL Land and its business units.

How LucaNet software benefits MCL Land:

  • Significant reduction in time needed for consolidation
  • Efficient tracking and comparison of financial data
  • The ability for timely and accurate comparison of financial statements on a single user-friendly software