ARLO: Financial Reporting Automation Demo - FHB
Are you struggling to keep up with growing workloads and shrinking budgets? Finding it harder to recruit and retain experienced finance staff? Looking for ways to produce high-quality financial reports more efficiently?
If so, attend this ARLO (Automated Reporting for Lean Organizations) Demonstration — a practical next step following the MFOA Financial Systems Demo Week.
This session will demonstrate how ARLO integrates seamlessly with leading municipal ERP systems (including SylogistGov, Oracle ERP, CentralSquare Technologies, TownSuite mERP, SAP, MuniSoft, and others) to automate and streamline financial reporting for Ontario's public sector organizations, freeing their teams to focus on higher-value tasks.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- See how you can integrate with your ERP system to import and manage financial data (actuals, budgets, narratives, and performance measures).
- Understand how to significantly reduce manual effort in financial report production while maintaining full control and accuracy.
- Discover how to efficiently generate, modify, and finalize complete financial reports, including narratives, statements, footnotes, and the Ontario FIR.
- See how ARLO enables rapid last-minute adjustments and produces professional, graphically designed annual report PDFs and board/council presentations.
- See how ARLO is PS 1202 ready, taking one item off your to-do list before 2027.
- Understand how ARLO protects both your current and future technology investments by being ERP/Accounting systems agnostic.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Importing & managing data (actuals, budgets, narrative, & performance measures)
- Generating & modifying narratives, statements, footnotes, & all other common elements of financial reports
- Managing last-minute adjustments
- Producing complete, graphically designed annual report PDFs and related presentations for board or council
- Automating the Ontario FIR
- Live demonstration and Q&A
WHO WILL BENEFIT: This demonstration is designed for Ontario's municipal finance professionals. Whether your organization uses one of the major ERP systems or is exploring ways to work more efficiently with your current setup, this session will show practical ways ARLO can help your team reduce workload pressure, improve report quality, free up valuable time, and reduce the effort to adopt PS 1202.
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS:
Michael Spurlin is on the Solutions Design and Architecture team at F.H. Black & Company Incorporated. Michael brings experience helping organizations achieve better business outcomes by working with them to solve process, data, and reporting problems. He has helped Municipal Finance Teams across North America improve their organizational processes and data use, enabling them to spend less time on low-level activities and more time on high-level activities and analysis.
Justin Kopalasingam is a Solutions Advisor at F.H. Black & Company Incorporated, where he works with public sector organizations across Ontario to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and data-driven decision-making. With more than 7 years of experience serving public sector finance and budget teams, Justin helps organizations improve financial and budget reporting, assess ERP transition readiness, and leverage analytics to drive better outcomes.