Colchester, Essex · remote by default, on-site when it matters
Power BI consultant in Colchester
Colchester is the southern edge of the patch I cover in person, and north Essex has a business mix that maps almost exactly onto the four industries this site is built for: construction and trades firms with project costs in one system and invoices in another, wholesalers and distributors on the A12 corridor, and professional services firms growing out of the town's business parks.
What they tend to have in common is a finance system that is trusted, an operational system that is tolerated, and a set of spreadsheets between them that nobody would want an auditor to see. The reporting job is to make the first two agree and retire the third.
Construction and trades
Project cost, valuation and cash reporting that reconciles between the job costing system and the accounts, so the monthly valuation meeting starts with the same number.
Wholesale and distribution
Sales, margin and stock from Sage, Business Central or the ERP, in one view instead of five spreadsheets.
Professional services
Utilisation, WIP and billing for firms that have outgrown their practice system's own reports.
The First Report · £1,950
One system you already run, one report, the headline number reconciled to the penny before it ships. Ten working days. The smallest useful yes.
Power BI Health Check · £950
Already have Power BI nobody trusts? Six areas, 48 scored checks and a roadmap within five working days. The full fee comes off any work booked within 90 days.
Reporting Sprint · £9,500
Up to three systems into one modelled layer and eight report pages, live in three weeks, reconciled to source.
Every price is published, and none of them change by postcode.
Remote by default. On-site in Colchester is about an hour and three quarters from Great Yarmouth down the A12, so it is a planned day rather than a drop-in, and it is not charged for.
If it doesn't reconcile, it doesn't ship
Every build ties back to the source system before anyone sees it. On financial reporting that means £0 trial-balance variance, and there is a 23 year archive in the portfolio that shows what that looks like.
Built to be read by everyone
Reports that work on a phone, in greyscale and in a printout, because I am colour blind and build to a higher accessibility standard than most dashboards get.
No licences, no software
I sell no Sage licences, Microsoft seats or software, so the advice is never shaped by a resale commission.
Norwich · Great Yarmouth · Ipswich · Cambridge · Peterborough · the whole of the UK, remotely
Frequently asked questions
Do you cover the rest of Essex?
Colchester, Chelmsford, Braintree and the A12 corridor, yes, remote by default and a drive down the A12 when being in the room matters. South Essex and London are remote.
What does a Power BI consultant cost in Colchester?
The published prices, which are the same everywhere: a £950 Health Check, a £1,950 First Report, a £9,500 Reporting Sprint, care plans from £250 a month and training from £750 a day.
Can you report on our job costing system?
If it has a database or an export, yes. Construction job costing plus Sage or Xero is a normal Reporting Sprint; a single system with one question is a First Report.
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