Align Your Dev Teams with Your Bottom Line
Jira ➔ Xero FinOps
Stop guessing your project margins. We tidy and align your operational and financial systems so your project data, bookkeeping and reporting all work together.
Where is your sprint revenue leaking?
See how your Jira Epics match actual Xero margins in real time.
Adjust the sliders below to calculate how unbilled Jira delivery hours and scope drift impact your monthly margins—and find out what you’re leaving on the table before Xero invoicing.
1. Team Capacity & Billing Base
Establish your baseline billable capacity to calculate true realization vs. Jira execution.
2. Scope Creep & Write-off Patterns
Identify where unbilled engineering hours escape between Jira tasks and Xero invoices.
3. Your FinOps Margin Health Summary
Based on your inputs, here is your estimated revenue leakage and capacity realization efficiency.
Agile FinOps + Accounting
Package 1: FinOps Audit & SOP Setup
£1,950 (Fixed One-off Implementation Project Fee)
What’s Included:
A structured, technical‑financial audit designed to stabilise your systems and build a flawless operational‑to‑financial workflow.
- Operational Tool Audit: We review your Jira, ClickUp, or Monday.com setups to find where billable hours are dropped and where financial blind spots live.
- Agile ➔ Xero Mapping Architecture: We cleanly map your production work straight into financial ledger streams:
- Epics ➔ Income Streams
- Stories ➔ Clear Deliverables
- Sprints ➔ Financial Reporting Periods
- Logged Time ➔ Cost Allocation & Payroll Mapping
- Project Status ➔ Revenue Recognition Milestones
- Xero File Clean‑Up: We tidy and restructure your Chart of Accounts, tracking categories and historical coding so your reporting is accurate, consistent and easier to trust.
- Custom SOP Blueprint: Clear, comprehensive documentation mapping out:
- How your engineering/creative team logs time seamlessly.
- How your delivery data flows cleanly into Xero.
- Monthly maintenance playbooks to stop data drift and cost leaks.
Outcome: A stable, fully documented cloud financial ecosystem that mirrors how your production team actually works — bringing true financial clarity to your delivery data.
- Stop unbilled scope creep instantly by catching untracked hours before the monthly invoice goes out.
Package 2: Agile FinOps Retainer
From £450 / Month (Billed Monthly via Direct Debit)
Ongoing, continuous alignment that ensures your daily operations match your monthly target profitability margins.
What’s Included:
- Monthly System Governance: Proactive workflow health checks across Jira and continuous tracking category adjustments inside Xero.
- Agile Sprint Cost Reporting: High-level monthly dashboards showing your executive team:
- Actual cost per individual sprint & project.
- Exact cost per micro-deliverable.
- Live client profitability trends & capacity vs. generated revenue tracking.
- Operational Bookkeeping: Accurate, stress-free monthly bookkeeping reconciled and balanced against real-time operational delivery.
- Quarterly Optimization Review: Iterative workflow adjustments and SOP scaling updates as your agency expands.
Outcome: Total predictability. Sprint-aligned cost visibility, automated financial hygiene, and a unified operational-to-financial engine.
Optional Add-Ons
• Custom dashboards: £250
• API integration: £600–£1,200
• Team training: £300
• SOP pack (full): £350
Who This Is For
- Digital Agencies & Tech Consultancies scaling up their delivery squads.
- Service-Based Technical Teams running agile frameworks.
- Businesses using Jira, ClickUp, or Monday.com who are tired of messy time-tracking data.
- Leadership Teams struggling to pinpoint exact project profit margins, true capacity, or resource costs.
Why Agile FinOps Works
When operational systems and financial systems speak the same language, businesses gain:
- Better pricing decisions
- Clearer capacity planning
- More accurate forecasting
- Stronger financial control
- Less stress and fewer surprises
Why Ledger & Light?
Most businesses already have data.
The challenge is turning that data into clear financial decisions.
At Ledger & Light, I help service-based businesses connect operational delivery with financial reporting, bringing together tools like Jira and Xero to create a clearer picture of project profitability, capacity and revenue performance.
Rather than adding more dashboards, the focus is on building simple, reliable systems that help you understand:
✓ Which projects are most profitable
✓ Where revenue leakage is occurring
✓ How delivery performance affects financial outcomes
✓ Whether reporting can be trusted when making decisions
Calm systems. Clear reporting. Better visibility.
Meet Julia
Hi, I'm Julia, founder of Ledger & Light.
My background combines bookkeeping, financial systems and process design. Over time I noticed the same challenge appearing again and again:
Businesses were tracking work in one system, finances in another, and trying to make decisions from disconnected information.
That's what led me to develop the Agile FinOps approach.
By connecting operational data with financial reporting, I help business owners gain confidence in their numbers, understand project profitability and create systems that support sustainable growth.
I believe financial reporting should feel clear, useful and trustworthy, not overwhelming.
Not Every Business Needs Full FinOps
If you're looking for reliable bookkeeping, organised financial records and clear reporting, Ledger & Light also provides bookkeeping support for growing service businesses.
Whether you're preparing for VAT returns, improving financial visibility or simply want confidence that everything is accurate and up to date, bookkeeping services are available separately from our Agile FinOps packages.
Bookkeeping Services Include:
• Day-to-day bookkeeping
• Xero support
• VAT preparation
• Management reporting
• Financial organisation and clean-up
