Charity begins with IT

EDINBURGH, UK: Mercy Corps Scotland, the European Headquarters for the global Mercy Corps agency has chosen a finance solution.

This agency, as per a press release, helps people in the world’s toughest places turn the crises of natural disaster, poverty and conflict into opportunities for progress. A significant proportion of Mercy Corp’s donors are statutory organisations such as the EC, UN and European, UK and commonwealth governments. The search for a new finance system was driven by the need for highly developed financial management, complex multi-currency reporting and the compliance challenges associated with that. Mercy Corps selected Infor FMS SunSystems from LAKE Financial Systems as the ideal solution to these challenges.

Liz Sams, Director of Finance for the charity explains, “We selected LAKE Financial Systems, firstly, because they are one of the leading suppliers of Infor FMS SunSystems to the not-for-profit sector and, secondly, for the calibre of their consultants. They are not your traditional IT organisation; they are accountants that have been in your shoes. They are intelligent and probing and I knew they would bring real added value to the process.”

“We selected Infor FMS SunSystems because it is a market leader in not-for-profit and has a reputation as very stable and reliable. We needed a sophisticated accounting system that would satisfy our complex reporting needs and would be able to cope with our volume of activity.”