Elevate your bottom line with confidence.
At Bottomline, we partner with organizations to leverage over 25 years of recovery auditing expertise into a trusted, expert-led solution. Our mission is to collaboratively design and implement a low-effort, seamless, and integrated In-house process that enhances operational efficiency and drives measurable financial impact, elevating your bottom line with confidence and clarity.
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Why Conduct an Internal Accounts Payable Recovery Review Versus Contracting a Third-Party Recovery Firm?
Greater Control
Internal reviews give you complete oversight of the scope, methodology, and prioritization of the recovery efforts, allowing for a more tailored approach aligned with company objectives.
Faster Turnaround
Insights gained during internal reviews can be directly funneled into process improvements, often resulting in quicker remediation of root causes and enhanced operational efficiency.
Focus on Accuracy
Internal teams are positioned to evaluate transactions in the context of broader accounting practices, ensuring not just recoveries, but also improvements in overall financial integrity.
In-house teams can collaborate more effectively across departments, such as Procurement, Treasury, and Accounts Payable, ensuring aligned efforts and goals while maximizing recovery opportunities. A third-party commission-based firm may perceive the recovery engagement as a competition with Accounts Payable to secure funds first, which could conflict with and potentially disrupt priorities and coordination among internal functional areas.
Seamless Coordination
Stronger Supplier Engagement
Suppliers are generally more responsive when contacted directly by their client’s employees. With rising concerns around fraud and phishing, vendors are increasingly cautious and more likely to trust communication from a known internal source.
Prioritization Based on Business Value
Third-party firms often prioritize large-dollar recoveries to optimize their own fees. Internal teams can define thresholds based on strategic business priorities rather than firm-driven profit motives.
Sustainable Cost-Recovery
Establishing an in-house recovery unit delivers substantial long-term savings by eliminating the steep, year-after-year, contingency fees charged by third-party firms. More importantly, as automation and AI technologies advance, your organization, not an external firm, reaps the full benefit of those innovations, amplifying cost savings over time and reinforcing financial control for the future.
Enhanced Security & Risk Management
Keeping the process in-house reduces exposure of sensitive financial data and minimizes external system access, lowering security and compliance risks associated with third-party permissions amid growing regulatory and cybersecurity scrutiny.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is recovery auditing?
Recovery auditing is a targeted review of your company’s accounts payable and procurement activities that uncovers and corrects hidden financial leaks. It identifies overpayments, duplicate transactions, billing errors, and other inefficiencies that drain profitability. By reclaiming these funds, your organization can recover lost revenue, improve financial accuracy, and strengthen internal controls. It’s a strategic, cost efficient way to turn lost dollars into tangible savings, directly boosting your bottom line.
Q: What is your experience?
The firm is led by a principal consultant with over 25 years of specialized experience in the recovery auditing industry. In prior roles, she served as lead Senior Audit Manager on more than 40 recovery audit engagements, primarily supporting Fortune 500 organizations. In these capacities, she helped clients identify and recovery well over $100 million in previously missed or lost funds while strengthening accounts payable controls and related financial processes.
That experience now forms the foundation of a fractional consulting model focused on enabling organizations to develop internal recovery audit capabilities.
Q: How do your engagements work?
Q: Who do you typically work with?
We work with mid-to-large organizations seeking to strengthen profit recovery strategies, improve accounts payable controls, and increase internal ownership of recovery audit efforts in a way that supports stronger coordination across finance, accounts payable, shared services, and procurement. Our clients typically include organizations looking for a sustainable, in-house approach to recovery auditing,
Q: What industries do you service?
We work with organizations across a range of industries. Key examples include high-technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, construction, as well as any organization with significant spend, high transaction volumes, or complex accounts payable processes that could benefit from profit recovery.
Enjoy Your Experience?
We operate as a fractional consulting practice, working with designated internal teams through structured, time-bound engagements focused on building internal recovery audit capabilities rather than providing ongoing execution. Our role is to guide and equip teams through practical training, tools, and process guidance so they can independently perform recovery audit activities once the engagement concludes, with quarterly follow-up check-ins available to support long-term sustainability.
