Finance operations workflow suite
Automated three recurring finance operations: targeted file-change alerts, a queryable email evidence trail and supplier price-list collection for downstream reconciliation.
Evidence inputs
- Group finance operations across Microsoft 365, SharePoint libraries, Outlook mail groups, Excel and supplier sites.
- Power Automate · SharePoint · Outlook
Transformation
- Routed SharePoint file-change alerts to the users who must act.
- Logged defined mail-group messages and attachments into a structured evidence table and matching document archive.
- Collected current supplier price lists for processing and reconciliation.
Controls & assurance
- Linked each evidence-log row to its filed documents for auditability.
- Limited notifications to accountable users to protect the signal.
Output
- The standing flows surface file changes, create queryable evidence logs and collect supplier price lists without manual handling.
Business value
- Reduces silent-change risk and manual handling while giving finance an auditable evidence trail and current pricing inputs.
- Problem
Document changes went unnoticed, email evidence remained in individual inboxes and supplier price lists required manual collection.
- Approach
Routed SharePoint file-change alerts to the users who must act.
- Outcome
The standing flows surface file changes, create queryable evidence logs and collect supplier price lists without manual handling.
Reduces silent-change risk and manual handling while giving finance an auditable evidence trail and current pricing inputs.
Transformation route
- 01
Routed SharePoint file-change alerts to the users who must act.
- 02
Logged defined mail-group messages and attachments into a structured evidence table and matching document archive.
- 03
Collected current supplier price lists for processing and reconciliation.
Decision log
- Linked each evidence-log row to its filed documents for auditability.
- Limited notifications to accountable users to protect the signal.
- Used one collection path so pricing comparisons start from current published data.
This case study proves
- Low-code automation (Power Automate) AI & Automation Applied
What I learned
- Structured capture turns inbox evidence into an auditable dataset.
- Clear ownership keeps automated notifications actionable.
Future improvements
- Add duplicate checks, exception handling, owner hand-off and measured time savings.
- Connect processed price lists directly to the pricing benchmark.