In 2025, the role of the CFO is more strategic than ever. Finance leaders are expected not only to ensure accurate reporting and compliance but also to forecast performance, manage capital proactively, and help guide investment strategy. When it comes to real estate, one of the largest and most complex capital expenditures for many organizations, traditional ERP systems and FP&A tools are often pushed beyond their limits.
We help CFOs bridge this gap. We specialize in real estate project and capital oversight that integrates cleanly with existing ERP platforms and enhances your organization’s FP&A capabilities. Our services provide finance teams with the project-level insight, financial structure, and forecasting discipline needed to make real estate work like any other managed investment.
ERP Systems Weren’t Built for Real Estate Complexity
ERP systems like Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, and Workday are essential for managing enterprise operations, but they’re not designed to handle the nuanced cost structures, phasing, and unpredictability of real estate projects.
CFOs and controllers often find themselves trying to reconcile change orders, soft costs, and phased capital deployment using spreadsheets or manual workarounds. This creates blind spots in reporting, delays in reforecasting, and difficulty in producing audit-ready documentation.
Nautare addresses this problem directly. We create a structured layer of real estate cost and schedule data that integrates with your existing ERP system. Whether you need monthly accruals by phase, variance explanations for board reporting, or capitalized vs. expensed cost tracking, we deliver real-time visibility and accounting-ready structure that your internal systems can actually use.
Augmenting FP&A with Project-Level Forecasting
Most FP&A platforms excel at top-down planning. But real estate spend doesn’t follow clean, linear trajectories. Budgets evolve with permitting delays, scope changes, inflation, and contractor performance. Without live, project-informed inputs, FP&A models quickly become inaccurate.
Nautare brings real estate forecasting into the FP&A loop. We provide rolling forecasts that align project timelines with capital projections, allowing finance teams to dynamically update spend models and cash flow planning. This means fewer surprises, more accurate board reporting, and better decision-making around funding allocations.
Our clients use Nautare dashboards to:
- Integrate project milestones and actuals into rolling forecasts
- Run “what-if” scenarios for phased development or scope changes
- Identify emerging budget risks before they affect reporting cycles
Independent Financial Oversight for Capital Projects
One of the most valuable functions we provide is financial accountability at the project level. Real estate budgets often include buffers, contingencies, and assumptions, but those protections erode quickly if not carefully managed.
We serve as an independent, third-party reviewer of project budgets, vendor invoices, schedule changes, and change directives. Our oversight helps CFOs validate that project costs are aligned with approved budgets, and that deviations are fully justified before they hit the ledger.
This oversight improves internal controls and creates a paper trail that stands up under audit. For companies subject to Sarbanes-Oxley or external lender scrutiny, Nautare provides defensible documentation that links financial performance to operational reality.
Integrating Real Estate Spend into Enterprise Reporting
CFOs need timely, accurate reporting to manage cash, communicate with stakeholders, and close the books efficiently. But real estate project data is often fragmented, inconsistently formatted, or buried in construction management systems that don’t align with financial workflows.
Nautare solves this by structuring project data, including commitments, spend to date, and forecasted exposure, into formats that integrate directly with your ERP and reporting tools. Whether it’s Power BI, Tableau, Excel-based rollups, or custom dashboards, we enable cross-functional teams to see the same data, the same way.
This level of integration helps organizations:
- Close the books faster
- Reduce back-and-forth between construction and finance teams
- Identify trends across multiple projects and vendors
- Build audit-ready documentation that links decisions to outcomes
Capital Planning and Portfolio-Level Visibility
When managing a single development or tenant improvement project, manual tools may suffice. But as your organization’s real estate footprint expands, across multiple sites, jurisdictions, or lines of business, capital planning becomes a true portfolio management challenge.
Nautare supports portfolio-level analysis by tracking project financials in a consistent structure across initiatives. We help finance teams:
- Compare cost efficiency across markets or vendors
- Track capital spend against multi-year plans
- Standardize approval workflows across projects
- Build comparative metrics to improve future budgeting
This discipline is critical for CFOs managing multiple capital projects across different geographies or business units.
Supporting Strategic FP&A with Real Estate Intelligence
In many organizations, real estate is still treated as an operational function, disconnected from the enterprise strategy. Nautare changes that by embedding financial discipline and performance data directly into your FP&A processes.
We provide insights into:
- Real estate ROI and capital efficiency
- Scenario modeling for lease vs. own vs. renovate decisions
- ESG and lifecycle cost reporting
- Risk-adjusted capital planning for long-range forecasting
Our team works closely with both real estate and finance leadership to align project planning with enterprise growth and cost control goals.
Real Estate That Performs Like a Financial Asset
Real estate is one of the largest lines on the balance sheet, and too often, one of the least understood by finance. Nautare helps CFOs make real estate projects as visible, measurable, and manageable as any other capital asset.
Our services are designed to work within your existing systems. We don’t ask you to rip and replace your ERP. We don’t create redundant processes. Instead, we add a layer of clarity, structure, and insight that lets your finance team operate with confidence.
Whether you’re planning a major renovation, overseeing multi-site upgrades,building out new space, or trying to improve your organizational process, Nautare gives you the tools, data, and oversight to keep your capital working harder.
Ready to Align Real Estate with Finance?
Nautare partners with finance leaders across industries to bring transparency, control, and performance to real estate. If your team is struggling to reconcile project activity with ERP data, or if your FP&A models lack real-time visibility into capital projects, we can help.
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Nautare is a national commercial real estate project services firm. We partner with ambitious clients to plan and deliver complex real estate projects with clarity, precision, and long-term value.
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