CxO Briefing: Financial Control & Compliance
40% Reduction in Quarterly Financial Close Cycle via AI BPMN Transformation
Financial Closing/Reporting Process
How to streamline the closing process?
The Dragon1 AI BPMN Process Architect streamlined the closing process, cutting the time from 15 days to 9, allowing earlier reporting and significantly reducing reconciliation errors.
1. Current State (As-Is) - Reconciliation Wait
15 Days to Close | High Manual Rework
2. Future State (To-Be) - AI Optimized
9 Days to Close | Automated Data Validation
Immediate Payback Justification
85% Modeling Efficiency: The Cost of Doing Nothing
85%
Reduction in time to create and document complex BPMN models.
5 Days
Time gained for executive analysis and strategic decision-making.
9 Days
New average time for the entire quarterly financial close cycle.
The Enterprise Result: Transformation Metrics
40%
Reduction in Quarterly Financial Close Cycle (15 days to 9 days).
Allows faster public reporting and reduces pressure on the finance team.
85%
Faster Inter-Company Reconciliation.
AI automatically flags and resolves standard data mismatches across subsidiaries.
Audit Ready
Guaranteed Compliance Through Process Standardization.
The documented BPMN model serves as the single source of truth for all external audit controls and checks.
Detailed Process Comparison: Before and After AI
1. Current State (As-Is): The 15-Day Ordeal
The financial close process was burdened by manual data gathering from numerous systems and extensive spreadsheet-based reconciliation, leading to a 15-day Close Cycle.
| Inter-Company Matching | Manual comparison and correction of transactions between global subsidiaries took multiple cycles of review and correction. | 5-7 days of highly iterative, error-prone manual work. |
2. Future State (To-Be): The 9-Day AI Optimized Blueprint
The Dragon1 AI BPMN Process Architect generated the Future State model, implementing automated data aggregation and AI reconciliation agents, achieving a 9-day Close Cycle (a 40% reduction).
| AI Continuous Reconciliation | System automatically runs matching algorithms daily, flagging discrepancies in real-time, eliminating the need for a large end-of-quarter matching effort. | Shifted reconciliation from an end-of-process bottleneck to an in-process check. |