AI agents that handle reconciliation, journal entries, flux analysis, and consolidation — transforming your month-end close from a fire drill into a predictable, accelerated process.
THE PROBLEM
Despite billions spent on ERP systems, the financial close remains one of the most labor-intensive processes in finance. Teams work overtime, errors compound under pressure, and the business waits for numbers.
10+ days
Average close cycle
Mid-market and enterprise companies routinely take 10–15 business days to close their books — time that could be spent on analysis and planning.
40%
Time spent on reconciliation
The single largest time sink in the close process. Matching transactions, investigating breaks, and preparing working papers consumes nearly half the cycle.
$2.8M
Annual close process cost
Staff overtime, error remediation, restatement risk, and delayed business decisions all carry real costs that compound quarter over quarter.
Measurable improvements to your close cycle from the first month.
60%
Faster month-end close
From 10+ days to under 4 days
90%
Fewer manual journal entries
Agents prepare and post automatically
99.8%
Data accuracy rate
Eliminates transcription and formula errors
3x
More closes per quarter
Enable continuous close capability
CAPABILITIES
AI agents that don't just track tasks — they execute them. From reconciliation through consolidation, agents handle the work while your team handles the judgment.
Agents orchestrate the entire close process — from sub-ledger reconciliation through consolidation to final reporting — tracking dependencies and parallelizing where possible.
Agents analyze accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, then prepare journal entries with full supporting documentation — ready for review and posting.
Automated period-over-period analysis that identifies material variances, investigates root causes, and prepares explanations before your team even asks.
Built-in SOX controls testing, segregation of duties enforcement, and automated sign-off workflows that keep your close compliant without slowing it down.
THE ACCELERATED CLOSE
Your team reviews and approves. Agents do the heavy lifting.
The financial close involves dozens of repetitive steps: sub-ledger reconciliation, intercompany matching, journal entry preparation, flux analysis, consolidation, and reporting. Our agents automate the data gathering, matching, calculation, and documentation steps — your team focuses on review, judgment calls, and strategic analysis rather than data wrangling.
Yes. Aetherix agents integrate with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, BlackLine, FloQast, and other close management platforms. They complement your existing tools by handling the manual work between systems that typically requires analyst intervention.
Close management tools organize and track the close process — they're task managers for finance teams. Aetherix agents actually do the work: they match transactions, prepare journal entries, investigate variances, and generate reports. Think of it as the difference between a project management tool and an employee who executes the tasks.
A typical deployment covers the core close workflow within 6–8 weeks. We start with the highest-volume reconciliation accounts and expand from there. Most clients see measurable close time reduction within their first month-end close after go-live.
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