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Deployment Record

Finance Operations Transformation

Month-end close taking 12 days with 3 FTEs dedicated to manual reconciliation and journal entries.

B2B SaaS$85M ARR8 weeks to productionsavings: $420,000

Challenge

Month-end close taking 12 days with 3 FTEs dedicated to manual reconciliation and journal entries.

Solution

Deployed worker system for automated reconciliation, exception handling, and journal entry preparation with human-in-loop approvals.

Measured Results

Close Time

12 days3 days

75% faster

Manual Entries

2,400/month180/month

92% reduction

FTE Reallocation

3 dedicated0.5 oversight

2.5 FTE savings

Annual Savings

$420,000

Timeline

8 weeks to production

System Diagram

A representative flow showing deterministic execution and guardrails.

INPUTSWORKER COREOUTPUTS• Invoice PDFs (Email/Portal)• Purchase Orders (ERP)• Bank Confirmations• Vendor Master Data• INGEST → EXTRACT → MATCH• Exception policy + approvals• Journal entry draft• PURGE (retention: 0ms)• Matched invoices posted• Exception queue + SLA• Audit trail to SIEM• Close-time dashboardGuardrails: schema validation · approval thresholds · scrubbed logs · immutable audit events

Implementation Notes

Inputs

  • Invoice PDFs (email + portal)
  • ERP purchase orders
  • Bank payment confirmations

Tools

  • NetSuite API
  • Slack approvals
  • Cloud storage (customer-owned)
  • Audit log sink (SIEM)

State Machine

  • INGEST
  • EXTRACT
  • MATCH
  • EXCEPTIONS
  • POST
  • PURGE

Controls

  • PII scrubbed logging
  • Approval thresholds
  • Immutable audit trail
  • Rollback-safe writes