Finance · AI governance · Program advisory
Clear decisions for finance and AI transformations that have to work.
EkaC Global Consulting advises CFOs, CIOs and transformation leaders on where to invest, how to govern AI, and how to get high-stakes programs delivered. The work starts from a finance and accounting foundation and draws on hands-on Oracle EPM and ERP leadership.
Executive Assessment
AI Execution Readiness
Readiness index
Shown as a range · Confidence: Medium
Evidence base
- Observed Highest weight
- Documented Weighted
- Asserted Discounted
Portfolio calls
- Exception triage Accelerate
- Forecast assistant Restructure
- Policy Q&A copilot Stop
Illustrative view of an AI Execution Readiness assessment. Sample content, not client data.
The execution gap
Most transformations don't fail on strategy. They fail between the decision and the delivery.
Leadership teams rarely lack ambition or technology. What they lack is a clear view of what is ready, who owns the outcome, and which controls have to be in place before anyone acts.
AI ambition without decision ownership
Use cases multiply, pilots run, but no one can say which decisions AI should support, who is accountable for the output, or what happens when it is wrong.
Finance programs that drift
EPM and ERP initiatives slip on scope, design and adoption. Usually the cause is the operating model and governance, not the platform.
Governance on paper, not in operation
Policies exist, but evidence, override rights, monitoring and audit trails do not. The control gap only surfaces when something goes wrong.
Advisory
Three practices, one discipline: connect value, governance and execution.
Finance Transformation
CFO agenda, operating model and enterprise performance management, including Oracle EPM and ERP programs from strategy and platform selection through design assurance.
Finance TransformationAI Governance & Transformation
Practical governance for enterprise AI: decision ownership, risk tiering, authority levels, controls and adoption, mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.
AI GovernanceProgram Advisory & Recovery
Independent oversight of complex programs: health checks, executive governance, vendor and integrator oversight, scope assurance and recovery of initiatives that have gone off track.
Program AdvisoryAI Transformation Decision System
From AI ambition to executable adoption.
An advisor-led diagnostic system that tells leadership where to invest, what to scale, what could derail value, and what needs to happen next.
“Where can AI materially improve a business decision — and do we have enough trust, transparency and control around it to act?”
Where are we now?
Where should we focus first?
What could block value?
What do we do next?
Selected transformations
Proof from the work itself.
Engagements our founder led or delivered across his career. Client names are withheld.
~40% faster close
A faster, governed global close with far less Excel
Global industrial equipment manufacturerRead the case~20 hrs saved per quarter
Near real-time P&L and automated executive reporting
Global consumer e-commerce companyRead the caseAudit-ready close
Excel-driven consolidation replaced with an auditable close
Manufacturing companyRead the caseHow we work
Principles that hold under executive scrutiny.
Outcome first
Start from the business decision and the value at stake. Then build the roadmap, and make technology serve the strategy.
Governance before configuration
Agree how the function should operate, and who owns what, before anyone configures a system or deploys a model.
Evidence over assertion
Separate what managers say from what is documented and what is observed. Recommendations rest on what is demonstrated.
Execution discipline
Every finding ends in a decision, an owner and a timeframe. Progress is reassessed rather than assumed.
Founder & Principal Advisor
Shanka Wickramasinghe
A finance professional by training and a transformation leader by practice. Shanka brings more than a decade of hands-on experience in accounting, FP&A, financial reporting and controllership in Canada, combined with deep expertise in digital transformation, program leadership and project management. He has gone on to lead large, complex finance system implementations in the United States, with particular depth in Oracle EPM and ERP.
His work now sits where finance, enterprise technology and AI meet. He helps leadership teams decide what to do, govern how it is done, and see it through.
About ShankaAlso from EkaC · Website builds
Websites that work as hard as you do.
The same discipline we bring to finance and AI programs, applied to your front door online. We design and build fast, clean, credible websites for small businesses and professional practices, then hand you the keys.
Mobile-first design
Built for the phone in your customer's hand first, then scaled up beautifully for tablet and desktop.
Quote & booking forms
A simple way for visitors to request a quote or book time with you, so interest turns into conversations.
SEO & Google-ready
Clean structure, page titles, descriptions and the basic setup that helps search engines find and understand you.
You own everything
Domain, code and logins are yours from day one. No lock-in, no hostage situations.
How it works
- 1
Discovery call
We talk through your business, your customers and what the site needs to do.
- 2
Build in ~2–3 weeks
Design, content structure and build, with a review round before launch.
- 3
Hand-off & training
You get everything, plus a walkthrough so you can make simple updates yourself.
Markets served
Start with a conversation.
Tell us about the decision in front of you. We'll tell you plainly whether and how we can help.