We work with Private Equity-backed companies, multi-entity groups and businesses whose Finance Function has not evolved at the same pace as the organization.
Our clients are often navigating acquisitions, international expansion, increasing reporting demands or the transition from founder-led to institutional ownership.
They need greater visibility, stronger control and more reliable insight from Finance.
PROCESSES
PEOPLE
SYSTEMS
The problem we solve
As the business grows, Finance is expected to close faster, consolidate more entities and respond to increasingly demanding questions from management and investors.
Yet many teams still rely on manual processes, fragmented systems, unclear responsibilities and knowledge held by a small number of individuals.
The result is delayed reporting, incomplete reconciliations and limited visibility. The team works harder, but has little time left to analyze performance or support decisions.
The problem is not effort. The Finance operating model has not evolved with the business.
What we do
We assess how Finance operates today and identify the root causes behind reporting, control and scalability challenges.
We then design the Target Finance Operating Model across People, Processes and Technology, define the required capabilities and systems, and build a prioritized transformation roadmap.
When required, we also lead the execution. We coordinate Finance, IT, Operations, software providers and implementation partners until the new operating model is working and embedded.
What makes us different
We understand Finance from the inside
We bridge the gap between what Finance needs to become and what it takes to get there.
What we are — and what we are not
Operiva is a specialist Finance transformation partner. We design and lead the operating model, processes, systems and organizational changes required to build a reliable, controlled and scalable Finance Function.
We are not an outsourced accounting, bookkeeping or tax advisory provider. We are not a fractional CFO service focused primarily on fundraising, a software developer, a technical ERP implementer or a generalist strategy consultancy.
We work alongside accountants, tax advisers, technology providers and implementation partners when their expertise is required.
Our role is to connect their work and ensure that processes, systems, responsibilities and teams move in the same direction.
We do not replace specialist partners. We make sure all the pieces work together.
Lo que dicen quienes han pasado por el proceso
Trabajamos con empresas mid-market bajo presión real de reporting. Si el problema es de fondo, lo resolvemos de fondo.
About the founder
Adriana Dupont Garmendia
Adriana has spent more than 20 years working across the Finance Function, from accounting and controlling to Finance leadership, transformation and post-acquisition integration.
Throughout her career, she has experienced Finance technology from the client side: as an end user, process owner, Finance Director and transformation lead. She has worked with ERPs and specialist Finance applications not only during implementation, but also in the day-to-day reality that follows go-live.
This gives her a clear understanding of what each system should enable, where its limitations lie and how technology must connect with processes, data and team capabilities to deliver real value.
She knows the difference between software that has been successfully installed and a system that genuinely helps Finance close faster, strengthen control and produce reliable information.
Adriana has worked across Europe, Latin America and the United States, supporting companies through growth, acquisitions and increasingly demanding reporting environments.
She understands Finance technology from the perspective that matters most: the people who must use it to run the business.
Why she founded operiva
Adriana founded Operiva after repeatedly seeing the same gap between Finance, technology and implementation. Companies were investing in systems, but the expected improvements in reporting, control and efficiency were not always materializing. What was missing was a partner who understood both how Finance should operate and how technology should support it. Operiva was created to close that gap and turn software, processes and team capabilities into one Finance operating model that works in practice.