The variance memo on close day 3,
not close day 8.
We embed with finance teams at $50–300M companies and take over the recurring deliverables that eat your senior people's time — variance commentary, board flux pages, cash forecasts, close memos. We connect to your GL, build the workflow, and ship the finished deliverable on the date you need it.
Without hiring the next FP&A analyst.
Four recurring artifacts your team already produces — shipped on a cadence, by us, on our infrastructure.
On software agnosticism.
Workday will tell you they can do everything. Oracle will say the same. ADP, Microsoft, Google, NetSuite — they will all say it. They are correct, with footnotes:
- i.Once you migrate the data into their system.
- ii.Assuming you also buy their consulting partner’s hours.
- iii.Excluding the spreadsheets your senior FP&A analyst has not yet been told to stop using.
We are not them. We connect to what you already run, build the workflow that pulls across the silos, and ship the deliverable on cadence — or answer the question on demand. The deliverable is the same regardless of how your stack got here.
What follows is one such question, asked at 16:02 on a Tuesday, and answered by 16:17.
- 01HCMWorkday — current instanceconnected
- 02HCM, ex-the Workday instance two acquisitions ago that nobody has logged into in seven monthsdormant
- 03PayrollADP RUN — US · Gusto — UK & EU contractorsconnected
- 04GLSage Intacct — primary · NetSuite — APAC subsidiaryconnected
- 05Journal queuethe controller’s queue, managed by handconnected
- 06AR / BillingStripe Billing · Bill.com — vendor sideconnected
- 07APthe AP spreadsheet your controller built in 2019spreadsheet
- 08Headcountthe Google Sheet that has been the source of truth for headcount since the company had thirty employeesspreadsheet
- 09WarehouseSnowflake — finance schema, read-onlyconnected
“Why is there a $43k variance between Workday and the GL on the comp accrual?”
- 16:02:14INBOUND
The discrepancy resolves to the November executive bonus accrual. Posted gross of payroll-tax withholding in Workday HCM ($241,000); reversed net of withholding in the GL ($198,000) on Dec 1. The $43,000 delta is the employer-side payroll tax that was correctly accrued in HCM but never journalized to 6420.
Recommend posting JE: DR 6420 $43,000 / CR 2150 $43,000. Will reflect in the Q4 close commentary.
A platform that owns the data can answer questions about its own data. We are not a platform. We are the team that walks across the hall and reads the spreadsheet — at the speed of an email reply.