How a Regional Bank Cut Reporting Time by 80%
Eleven source systems, one governed warehouse, and a month-end process that shrank from three weeks to two days.
A regional bank's finance and risk teams were spending three weeks of every month assembling regulatory and management reports from eleven separate systems. Analysts exported, reconciled, and re-keyed; disagreements between reports were resolved by seniority rather than evidence.
The Approach
We began with the report that hurt most — the monthly prudential return — and worked backwards to the data it needed. A governed warehouse consolidated the eleven sources behind a single semantic layer, with automated quality checks at every ingestion point so errors surfaced on arrival, not at month-end.
Rather than a big-bang cutover, each report moved to the new platform only after running in parallel for two cycles and matching the manual version. Trust was earned report by report.
The Results
The month-end cycle fell from fifteen working days to two, with the remaining time spent on review rather than assembly. Disputes over figures effectively disappeared: every number now traces to a governed definition and an auditable lineage. The bank's analysts — freed from reconciliation — now spend the recovered time on the analysis the reports were always meant to enable.