Finance that keeps pace with what you build
From the first prototype to an international operation, keep programme costs, supplier spend and entity finances in view. Light brings your books onto one live ledger, with agents handling routine work and your team in control.
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For finance teams supporting defence technology, autonomous systems and robotics businesses as they develop products, deliver contracts and grow.
Costs by programme
Use cost centres and custom properties to organise financial entries around your programmes. Build reports on supplier spend and development costs, with drill-down to the underlying transactions.
Supplier bills, handled
Let agents capture and code invoices for components, equipment and services. Match bills against purchase orders and route discrepancies for review before payment.
Approvals that follow your rules
Route bills and expenses by amount, vendor, cost centre or entity. Keep preparers, approvers and payers separate, with decisions recorded in the audit trail.
One view across entities
Bring the parent company, development teams and overseas subsidiaries onto one ledger. Consolidate across entities and currencies without rebuilding the group picture in spreadsheets.
Group and local reporting
Keep local statutory books and group reporting together. Trace the adjustments between them so your team can explain the numbers in either view.
Evidence beside the numbers
Follow financial entries back to source documents and approval history. Give reviewers the context behind a cost, payment or adjustment when they need it.
From prototype to production
The work changes as you grow. Your financial foundation should carry through.
Fund the next milestone
Bring development spend and supplier bills into the same financial view. Use current actuals to inform funding decisions and conversations about the next stage of a programme.
Scale the supplier base
Keep invoice coding, approvals and payments connected as purchasing grows. Engineers can review requests in Slack or Teams while finance retains the record.
Expand the operation
Add entities and currencies to the same platform. Give the group a consolidated view while each finance team works with its own books and permissions.
Your engineering systems. One financial foundation.
Keep the specialist tools your teams use for design, production and delivery. Light’s open API lets you connect financial data to the systems around it, while reporting, approvals and the books share one ledger.
We’ll work through your programme structure, contract requirements and integration needs with you, so the setup reflects how your business operates.
Explore the API →Controls your team can inspect
Permissions, approval routing and a traceable financial record belong in everyday work. Review Light’s security documentation and discuss your requirements with our team.
Build what comes next.
See how Light can support the finance behind your defence or robotics business.