Video · November 12, 2026
Fertiberia accelerates its financial consolidation 32-fold with OneStream
About this video
Fertiberia Group, a plant nutrition and industrial products group with around 30 companies across six European countries, replaced its manual Excel-based consolidation process with OneStream. Daniel Villena from Consolidation and Reporting explains how monthly consolidation time fell from 16 minutes to under 30 seconds. Improved data traceability and reliability now help the team respond quickly to stakeholders and dedicate more time to financial analysis.
Speakers
Accounting and Consolidation | Fertiberia
Key takeaways
- Replace manual consolidation to reduce errors. Fertiberia’s Excel-based process required repetitive updates when companies entered or left the group, creating inconsistencies and taking time away from financial analysis.
- Accelerate consolidation dramatically. With OneStream, monthly consolidation dropped from 16 minutes to less than 30 seconds—approximately 32 times faster—giving the finance team greater agility.
- Make data easy to trace. OneStream enables the team to retrieve accurate information quickly and trace it back to its source when responding to auditors and other stakeholders.
- Build reliability into the entire reporting process. Fertiberia highlights confidence in data, calculation rules, and the process from data ingestion through stakeholder reporting as a key benefit.
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I am Daniel Villena. I work in the Consolidation and Reporting area of the Fertiberia Group. Fertiberia group is a plant nutrition group, as well as products for agricultural industry. The group has about 30 companies, about 15 production plants, and ten logistics plants spread across Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Greece.
The biggest change or challenge we faced was when there were changes in the perimeter, entrances, and exits of companies. This was a very manual process that required very manual entries on each reporting sheet to update the new company or that the company had left. And this created inconsistency and a very manual workload that in the end gave errors or could lead to errors. We had been doing the consolidation with an Excel tool and that was a process that required too much time, with too many inconsistencies that needed correcting, and so on. It was too much time spent on data what you couldn’t dedicate to analysis.
And where is the real value in a financial department? It is to analyze the numbers. So we decided to go live with OneStream. The most visible and remarkable benefit is speed, the speed of consolidation. We were using an Excel tool that took 16 minutes per consolidation, and now we’ve reduced it to less than half a minute per monthly consolidation. This is a very big change, approximately 32 times faster than what we were doing before, which gives us greater agility.
Then, another process in which it brings us a lot of value is data traceability. When a stakeholder comes to you asking for information, whether it’s within the company like auditors or others, you have a very quick way to get the data, you can extract it very quickly, very accurately, and go back to the source.
If I had to describe OneStream in one word it would be, reliability. Data reliability. Reliability in calculation rules. Reliability throughout the entire process, from the moment the data is ingested until it is reported to the different stakeholders.
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