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Cut month‑end reporting from 9 days to 36 hours for a mid‑tier lender.

A warehouse rebuild that turned a nine‑day month‑end into a 36‑hour close and put regulator responses within minutes of a query.

The challenge

What we were asked to solve.

A mid‑tier lender was closing month‑end in nine working days. Finance ran a chain of 40+ Excel files by hand, executives got numbers a week after the month closed, and every regulator request needed a fresh dig through spreadsheets.

Our approach.

We built a single warehouse consolidating their core banking, treasury, and expense systems into a clean, dimensional model. Reporting moved to a governed BI layer that finance could query without breaking anything.

  • Discovery sprint to map every source system and reconcile definitions
  • Data warehouse in PostgreSQL with automated pipelines from six source systems
  • Executive dashboards and a self‑serve layer for finance and risk
  • Documentation, training, and a 90‑day support runway

The outcome.

Month‑end reporting dropped from nine days to 36 hours, executives now see numbers on day 2, and regulator requests are answered from the warehouse in minutes instead of days.

36 hrs
New month‑end close
6
Source systems unified
4 mo
Discovery to production

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