Finance close automation that saved 18 days per cycle

18 days back every close — fewer fire drills, clearer books.

Get these results for your team

18 days

Saved per close cycle

Fewer

Manual exception bottlenecks

Audit-ready

Evidence on every automated match

Company overview

Walther Farms

Walther Farms is an established agribusiness with a finance function that grew alongside operations — reliable people, aging process. As entity complexity increased, month-end became the bottleneck everyone planned around.

Background: Family-owned agribusiness
Valuation / scale: Private operating company

Story snapshot

Month-end reconciliation was consuming weeks. We automated the close path so finance could lock numbers faster with fewer manual exceptions.

Industry: Finance
Headline impact: 18 days saved per close cycle
Multi-entity reconciliation
Audit-ready automated matching
Close cockpit for blockers and owners

In frame

How it started

Close week at Walther Farms felt like a relay race with missing batons. Spreadsheets held the truth until they did not — and by then the whole cycle was waiting on a handful of exceptions.

Nearly three weeks vanished every month before leadership could trust the numbers. Decisions that needed a current picture were made on last month's fog.

The challenge

What stood in the way

Automate the predictable majority of reconciliations without losing auditability.
Surface blockers early with clear owners — not late-night spreadsheet archaeology.
Hold a new close baseline across consecutive cycles before calling it done.

The solution

What we put in place

—Automated matching and exception queues for the highest-volume reconciliation paths.
—A close cockpit that shows what is done, what is blocked, and who owns the next action.
—Controls that preserve auditability while removing repetitive manual steps.

The impact

What changed

18 days

Saved per close cycle

Fewer

Manual exception bottlenecks

Audit-ready

Evidence on every automated match

Testimony

“Close used to feel like a fire drill. Now we know the state of every account before the week is over.”

Sarah Chen

Controller, Walther Farms

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