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Finance Automation

Automate Repetitive Finance Operations

Reduce manual invoice processing, reconciliation, reporting and approval work — without replacing the systems your finance team already trusts.

Measured in cost per transaction, hours per month, days to close and exception rate. Not in models deployed.

  • Fixed scope
  • Measurable ROI
  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Works with your existing stack

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Does any of this look familiar?

These are the symptoms we see before the numbers get measured.

  • Invoices are re-keyed from a shared mailbox into the ERP
  • Reconciliation happens in a spreadsheet nobody else can run
  • Month-end close depends on one person's undocumented routine
  • Approvals sit in email until somebody chases them
  • The management pack is assembled by hand from several sources
  • Nobody can state the cost per invoice processed

What this process costs you today

Before anyone talks about technology, it is worth knowing the number you are trying to beat.

A worked example

Modelled estimate

3 employees × 9 hours/week of repetitive processing = 1,404 hours/year.

At $45/hour loaded cost

$63,180

annual process cost

If automation removes

65%

of the manual effort

Recoverable capacity

$41,067

per year

A three-person AP function, before counting the cost of late payments or duplicate invoices.

Now run it on your own volumes

Your current process

Assumptions

  • Fully loaded hourly cost of AP staff handling invoices
  • Error rework estimated at 1.5x the original handling time per failed invoice
  • Automatable share of 62–75% based on AP automation industry benchmarks
  • Payback modelled against a typical single-process implementation investment

Your estimated opportunity

Modelled estimate
Current estimated annual cost
$190,8002.6 FTE of manual effort
Potential automatable effort
6275%
Indicative payback
2 months
Potential annual opportunity
$118,296$143,100
Validate these numbers in a 5-Day Sprint

Directional planning estimate based on your inputs — not a quote or a substitute for finance sign-off.

How we work

  1. 1

    Map

    Sit with the people doing the work and document the process as it actually runs — including the workarounds nobody wrote down.

  2. 2

    Measure

    Establish a baseline: volume, handling time, error and rework rate, and what the process costs you today.

  3. 3

    Build

    Redesign the workflow and build it against your real systems and data — not a mockup or a slide.

  4. 4

    Validate

    Test against edge cases, confirm exception handling and approval gates, and measure the result against the baseline.

  5. 5

    Deploy

    Move into production with monitoring, runbooks and training — or recommend against it if the numbers do not hold up.

Before and after

Invoice processing

Today

  1. Invoice lands in a shared mailbox
  2. Downloaded and read
  3. Values typed into the ERP
  4. Emailed for approval
  5. Chased until paid

Automated

  1. Captured on arrival
  2. Extracted and supplier-validated
  3. Matched to PO and goods receipt
  4. Coded and routed to the approver
  5. Posted to the ERP on approval

Reconciliation

Today

  1. Export from two systems
  2. Match line by line in Excel
  3. Investigate every difference
  4. Re-run when data changes

Automated

  1. Sources pulled automatically
  2. Matched on your rules and tolerances
  3. Only genuine exceptions surface
  4. Reviewer sees the reason, not the raw data

Month-end close

Today

  1. Chase colleagues for inputs
  2. Run checks manually
  3. Assemble the workbook by hand

Automated

  1. Inputs gathered and validated automatically
  2. Checks run and flagged
  3. Pack assembled and ready for review

What we automate

  • Accounts payable and invoice processing
  • Two- and three-way matching
  • Bank and ledger reconciliation
  • Month-end close preparation
  • Management reporting packs
  • Expense processing
  • Supplier onboarding and master data

What you receive

  • Process map for the target finance workflow
  • Baseline: cost per transaction, hours per month, exception rate
  • Working automation against your ERP
  • Tolerance rules and segregation-of-duties-aware approvals
  • Exception routing with full context for reviewers
  • Audit trail suitable for finance controls
  • Measured before-and-after against the baseline

What the numbers say

Every figure is labelled by where it comes from — measured customer results, industry benchmarks, modelled estimates, or commitments we make to you.

80%

Faster invoice cycle time

Industry benchmark

95%

Fewer reconciliation errors

Industry benchmark

62–75%

Of manual AP effort automatable

Industry benchmark

Audit

Trail on every automated action

Delivery commitment

Technology we build on

We are not tied to one platform. The right tool depends on the workflow, your existing stack, and what you can maintain.

NetSuiteMicrosoft Dynamics 365QuickBooksSAPXeroSage IntacctMicrosoft 365Power Automate

How we keep it safe

Human approval gates

You decide which decisions an automation may make alone and which require a person. Thresholds are configured to your policy.

Exception handling

Anything ambiguous, incomplete or out of policy routes to a named owner with the reason attached — it does not fail silently.

Audit trail

Every action is logged: what ran, on what input, what it decided, and who approved it. Built for audit and incident review.

Least-privilege access

Automations connect through credentialed, scoped integrations you grant and can revoke. Your systems stay the system of record.

Finance Automation FAQs

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Pick the finance process that costs you most. We map it, measure it, and tell you what automating it is worth.