Bank reconciliation is the number one close bottleneck. Five people, three days, five entities, each running a different bank file format. Unreconciled items pile up into an 'old bucket' that nobody owns. Cash position is two days stale because the rec is manual. Every bank update breaks an Excel macro and the IT ticket queue takes six weeks.
Pre-built workflow template: bank statements ingested in every format → AI matches against GL transactions with confidence scoring → high-confidence matches post automatically → exception queue smart-routed by amount, age, vendor → escalation rules trigger before items age out → continuous reconciliation runs daily, not at month-end → intercompany cash auto-resolved via Astral. 85% touchless on bank + GL. The 15% that humans review is the 15% that actually needed a human.