Finance & Accountability
Connect financial controls to the operational work behind them.
RiGEL helps Indigenous Nations connect approvals, invoices, payment requests, funding controls, reconciliations, reporting, and audit evidence without replacing the Nation's banking or accounting systems. The goal is to make financial accountability easier to follow from operational decision through finance action and record.
Financial accountability begins before the transaction
A payment in the accounting system shows that money moved. It does not always preserve the operational context behind the transaction: who requested it, what programme or authority it belonged to, which approvals were required, what evidence supported it, or what conditions applied.
RiGEL connects that context to the work while the financial system remains the authoritative ledger.
From operational request to accountable record
- 01
Initiate
A payment request, invoice, reimbursement, funding action, budget request, or other finance-related matter enters the appropriate workflow.
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Validate
Required information, supporting evidence, coding context, funding restrictions, or programme requirements are checked.
- 03
Approve
The request reaches the people with the appropriate delegated financial and operational authority.
- 04
External finance
Send to finance
The authorized instruction or supporting record moves to the Nation's designated finance process or system.
- 05
Reconcile status
RiGEL records the operational status and relevant evidence returned from the external finance process where appropriate.
- 06
Preserve accountability
The request, authority, approvals, evidence, outcome, and follow-up remain connected.
Authority and financial control stay linked
RiGEL can reflect approval limits, delegated authority, programme restrictions, separation of duties, multiple required approvers, temporary authority, effective dates, and other Nation-defined controls.
A button click is not treated as authority by itself; the operational record should show why the person was authorized to act.
RiGEL is not the general ledger
Accounting, banking, payroll, investment custody, and other specialized financial functions remain in the systems and institutions responsible for them.
RiGEL provides the governed operational layer around requests, approvals, evidence, status, reporting, and accountability where that connection adds value.
Make audit evidence easier to reconstruct
A defensible operational record can show what was requested, who reviewed it, who approved it, what authority applied, what supporting information was used, what external finance action followed, and what changed later.
The goal is not to duplicate the accounting record. It is to preserve the operational evidence around it.
Start with a financial workflow where the operational context is too hard to follow.
RiGEL begins by understanding the approval path, authority, evidence, systems, and responsibilities around the work today.