Global services firm — 200+ person headcount, multi-entity structure.
The problem: Month-end close took 10–12 working days. The MIS arrived too late to be useful for management decisions. Reconciliations across entities were manual and error-prone. Finance ran on heroic effort, not a repeatable process.
What we did: Mapped every close task, eliminated duplicates, restructured the chart of accounts across entities, built a shared close calendar with named owners, and introduced automated bank reconciliation.
The outcome: Close timeline dropped from 10 days to 2. MIS was available to leadership by Day 3. Finance headcount stayed flat. The team went from firefighting to managing by exception.