Complimentary Assessment Delivered in 5 business days

Find your top finance automation opportunities.

See where manual reconciliations, spreadsheet approvals, and exception handling are slowing your close and increasing audit risk, and what to do about it.

  • Quantify labor and cycle-time savings across your top processes
  • Identify control gaps and audit-trail improvements
  • Receive a prioritized 90-day roadmap and recommended pilot
90% Reduction in manual finance work
10× Faster deployment versus legacy RPA
0% Hallucinations on financial data
5 days From request to delivered roadmap
Inside the Assessment

What you’ll receive.

A board-ready benchmark prepared by Kognitos’ Finance Practice. Delivered as a PDF within 5 business days of your working session.

  • 01

    Top automation opportunities

    The finance workflows with the highest combined impact on cost, cycle time, and risk, ranked by ROI and implementation fit.

  • 02

    Estimated labor and cycle-time savings

    FTE hours reclaimed, close days removed, and 12- and 24-month savings ranges for each candidate process.

  • 03

    Control and audit improvements

    Mapping to SOX, internal audit, and external auditor expectations, with the gaps to close before scaling automation.

  • 04

    Recommended pilot use case

    The highest-fit, lowest-risk workflow to deploy first. Scoped so the result is unambiguous to your CFO and audit committee.

  • 05

    Prioritized implementation roadmap

    A 90-day sequence with milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder roles, co-authored with your team.

Sample Output

See what your scorecard looks like.

A preview of the executive report your team will receive, with the underlying detail your CFO and audit committee will want to see.

finance-operations-scorecard.pdf · Page 2 of 24
Kognitos Research · 2026
Executive Summary
Midwest Industrial · Finance Operations Assessment ID · KGN-FIN-2026-047
Reconciliation Exceptions
1,832
↓ 91% auto-resolved
Estimated ROI · Year 1
$4.6M
79% confidence
Governance Score
96/100
Audit-ready · SOX mapped
Recommended Pilot
Cash App & GL Reconciliation
6-week pilot · Oracle · NetSuite
Rank Opportunity Automation Fit Year 1 Savings
01 Daily Cash Application AR · NetSuite · Bank feeds 96 $1.2M – $1.8M
02 GL Reconciliation Finance · Oracle · BlackLine 91 $1.6M – $2.2M
03 AP Invoice Exceptions AP · Coupa · Email intake 84 $0.6M – $0.9M

Each scorecard includes a 90-day implementation roadmap, governance and control review, and stakeholder map. Underlying methodology and benchmark dataset are documented in the appendix.

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Scope

Processes we assess.

We focus on the work that drives your close, your controls, and your operating cost.

01

Account reconciliations

Match, investigate, and clear high-volume reconciliations without spreadsheets.

02

Month-end close

Compress close cycle days by removing manual review and handoff bottlenecks.

03

AP invoice processing

Capture, code, and route invoices with full exception handling and approvals.

04

Cash application

Apply payments to invoices accurately, including partial pays and remittance gaps.

05

Journal entries

Prepare, post, and document recurring and ad-hoc entries with audit-ready logs.

06

Shared services

Scale finance operations across business units without adding headcount.

Why it Matters

Why finance leaders request this assessment.

Most finance teams know where the manual work lives. The harder question is which work to automate first, and what each opportunity is worth.

This assessment identifies where governed AI can deliver the fastest and safest operational impact, before you commit pilot budget, executive sponsorship, or audit committee attention to the wrong workflow.

Kognitos · Finance Practice
Frequently Asked

Common questions.

What to expect when you request the assessment.

  • A 30-minute working session with a Kognitos finance practitioner, plus a written scorecard covering your top automation opportunities, estimated savings, a governance and audit-readiness review, a recommended pilot, and a 90-day implementation roadmap.
  • Five business days from your working session to the delivered scorecard. We schedule the working session within 48 hours of your request.
  • Yes. There is no cost and no commitment. We do this work because finance leaders make better decisions when the analysis is specific to their environment, not generic to their industry.
  • Typically the Controller, a Finance Operations or Shared Services leader, and one person close to the systems (ERP, AP, reconciliation tools). 30 minutes is enough for a useful scorecard.
  • A 24-page PDF scorecard personalized to your environment, plus an editable executive summary your team can share with your CFO, audit committee, or board.
Begin Your Assessment

See where to start. With numbers, not opinions.

Request your free Finance Operations Automation Assessment. We’ll deliver your scorecard and roadmap within five business days.