- WOMAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS
- BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Organizations often know where they experience frustration—manual work, duplicated effort, disconnected systems, slow processes—but identifying how to fix it is harder. We help organizations understand how work moves through their systems—and then make it better.
Ascent helps clients examine processes from end to end, identify inefficiencies and control gaps, and develop practical solutions that improve how work gets done.
Our teams map workflows, analyze requirements, streamline processes, improve handoffs between systems and teams, and identify automation opportunities. Our experience includes Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and automation of repetitive, rules-based processes, reporting, and data-management activities.
As technology evolves, we help clients evaluate where automation and intelligent technologies can deliver meaningful value, not just where they can be implemented
Ascent brings deep experience supporting the systems and processes organizations rely on to manage financial operations.
Our teams combine technical understanding with functional business expertise, allowing us to support not just the technology but the business processes that technology enables.
Our experience includes procurement, accounting, cost management, budgeting, funds management, invoicing, collections, reimbursable agreements, asset management, labor distribution, project accounting, and financial reporting.
We support enterprise systems throughout their operational lifecycle, from requirements and testing to daily operations, troubleshooting, process improvement, reporting, and user support.
Ascent helps organizations turn complex financial and operational data into meaningful information that leaders and teams can use.
Our analysts perform reconciliation, financial analysis, cost analysis, expenditure monitoring, accrual analysis, data validation, anomaly identification, trend analysis, and management reporting. We investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, help clients understand what the data is telling them, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
Our current work includes analyzing cost data, identifying necessary adjustments, investigating inbound-data anomalies, supporting accruals and cost tracking, and performing lifecycle-cost analysis.
The goal isn’t simply to produce more data. It’s to make information more useful.
Ascent helps bridge the gap between business requirements and technology solutions.
We work between business stakeholders and technical teams to translate operational needs into workable technology solutions. We help identify gaps, define requirements, evaluate alternatives, support system enhancements and upgrades, test solutions, and validate that technology performs as intended.
Our experience includes business and functional requirements, gap analysis, alternatives analysis, system-change requests, user-acceptance testing, regression and system testing, release and upgrade support, and implementation coordination.
This combination of business knowledge and technical understanding helps reduce the disconnect that can occur between the people who build technology and the people who ultimately need to use it.
Ascent provides ongoing operational and user support that helps organizations keep critical business systems functioning while continually improving the user experience.
Our teams provide system administration, user-access management, functional and technical troubleshooting, incident management, issue escalation, knowledge management, documentation, and multi-tier help-desk support.
We also develop and deliver training that helps users understand not just where to click, but how systems support the business processes they are responsible for performing.
Ascent helps clients maintain accountability and prepare for the scrutiny associated with complex financial environments.
Our teams support financial audits, internal-control activities, user-access reviews, reconciliations, documentation, research and analysis, and remediation of audit findings. We also help clients establish repeatable processes that improve data integrity and reduce operational risk.
Ascent Consulting helps organizations solve complex business challenges by bringing together process expertise, technology, data, and people.