Where RPA actually pays off in finance ops

A Fortune 500 manufacturer’s finance team was drowning in manual reconciliation and month-end close work — high-volume, rule-based, and stable, but consuming thousands of hours and prone to error. We scored candidate processes for automation fit and ROI before building, then developed and orchestrated bots with exception handling designed up front. Intelligent document processing extended automation into work that had been too unstructured to touch. The result: 12,000 manual hours removed each year, accuracy up to 99.8%, and a payback measured in a single quarter. A lightweight automation Center of Excellence now governs reuse as the estate grows.