Eliminate work
that shouldn't exist.
Every finance team we've walked into is doing work no one needs. Not because the team is bad — because no one ever stopped to ask whether it should exist in the first place. We ask.
Start with a conversation →What we eliminate
Work your team
is drowning in.
Zombie Reports
Dashboards built for a CFO who left. Reconciliations that never feed a decision. Weekly packs no one opens. We find them, audit who uses them, and kill them.
Close Cycle Waste
Manual journal entries re-entered three times. Entity eliminations done in spreadsheets that break every quarter. Month-end steps with no owner, no deadline, and no reason.
Headcount Sprawl
Roles created to support work that existed before the last system change. We map the actual work to the actual people and surface what doesn't need a person at all.
Meeting Overhead
Finance reviews that are reporting ceremonies, not decision forums. Stand-ups that report status instead of surfacing risk. We redesign the cadence so every hour earns its slot.
Duplicate Systems
ERPs, sub-ledgers, and shadow spreadsheets all maintaining the same number. We find the authoritative source, decommission the duplicates, and stop paying for both.
Approval Theater
PO approvals routed to people who rubber-stamp everything. Variance explanations written for audiences that never read them. Compliance steps that satisfy nobody and protect nothing.
How it works
The DELETE audit.
Shadow the team for a week
We sit in every close meeting, review every standing report, and map every task in your finance calendar. No surveys. No questionnaires. Real observation.
Build the waste inventory
Every task gets tagged: who does it, how long, how often, and what decision it enables. Anything without a decision owner goes on the kill list.
Get stakeholder sign-off
We bring the inventory to your CFO and functional owners. We present the case for deletion. We run the politics so your team doesn't have to.
Execute the cut
Reports get archived. Meetings get cancelled. Workflows get restructured. And we document what we deleted so it doesn't come back as "the new CFO asked for this."
After the cut
What your team
looks like on the other side.
Ready?
Tell us what
you want to kill.
Bring us your most painful standing report. Your most pointless recurring meeting. Your longest close. We'll tell you whether we can eliminate it in 90 days.
Book the conversation →