Video · January 19, 2026
How VodafoneZiggo unified reporting for two shareholders and one internal view on one platform
About this video
VodafoneZiggo, a Dutch joint venture between Vodafone and Ziggo, faced an immediate reporting challenge at the time of its merger: hierarchies and reporting structures were inconsistent, Excel was the primary reporting tool, and the organization needed to serve two separate shareholders with different reporting requirements simultaneously. Standardizing that complexity into a single governed platform was the prerequisite for everything else.
OneStream now supports financial consolidation, integrated business planning, lease accounting, and account reconciliations, with ERP data mapped into the platform every 20 minutes across three separate mapping structures for both shareholders and internal reporting. Financial and non-financial data live in one repository, reports are generated by the system rather than manually by people, and the business now has timely, self-service access to the data it needs for reviews and analysis.
Speakers
Internal and External Reporting Manager | VodafoneZiggo
Key takeaways
- shareholders with different reporting requirements from one platform.
- ERP data maps into OneStream every 20 minutes across three separate mapping structures. Two shareholder mappings and one internal mapping give VodafoneZiggo the flexibility to serve different reporting requirements from a single governed data foundation updated in near real time.
- Financial and non-financial data now live together in one single version of the truth. Integrating non-financial data into OneStream alongside financials gave the business a more complete and consistent view than any previous reporting approach could deliver.
- Reports are now generated by the system rather than manually by people, reducing dependency on individual intervention. Data is timely, self-service, and available for business reviews and financial controller analysis without requiring manual effort to produce each time.
- Time saved on producing reports has been redirected into analysis across the Finance and controlling teams. Reducing manual reporting overhead is not just an efficiency gain. It is a fundamental shift in how Finance professionals at VodafoneZiggo spend their working time and add value.
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I'm Sarita Sewnarain. I'm from the Netherlands. I work at VodafoneZiggo. I'm responsible for internal and external reporting from data management perspective. About five years ago, we decided to do a joint venture between Vodafone and Ziggo.
At the time of the merger, we saw that the key priority was delivering reporting, right, to financial management. The first request was actually reporting. We need a tool for it. But what we saw is that the hierarchies, the reporting structures, they were all over the place and not really standardized.
So not fit for purpose to put in a platform. Excel was mostly used indeed for reporting purposes. We came to the conclusion that we needed a platform, so an integrated platform. We selected OneStream because it's intuitive.
And we used the financial consolidations, integrated business planning, lease accounting, embellished reconciliation. And we started with putting in the core cube in place. We have different reporting structures.
So that's internal reporting and we have two shareholders because we are a joint venture. We transfer the data from our ERP system into OneStream. That's mapped every 20 minutes because we have three mappings in our OneStream system.
So two of the shareholders and one internal. And we can actually drill down in the mapping to see where it's originated from. The benefits is that we are faster. We have one repository where we have one single version of the truth, which is non-financial and financials.
So we also integrated the non-financial into OneStream. Biggest value is that the business is less dependent the non-financial intervention of the non-financial intervention of running the reports because it's now done by a system and they can enter it themselves.
So the data is timely available for the business to do their reviews and financial controllers. And there's less dependency on people to run things manually. So the time is decreased of producing, which gives people more time for the analysis.
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