How a Top-25 GC Cut Month-End Close from 17 Days to 3

briq Customer Success · Enterprise Accounts · Feb 2026

A detailed look at how one of America's largest general contractors automated their financial close process with Otto.

A Top-25 general contractor with $4B+ in annual revenue was struggling with a month-end close process that consistently took 17 business days. The finance team of 23 people spent the majority of each month preparing for, executing, and reviewing the close.

The primary bottlenecks were subcontractor invoice reconciliation, cost-to-complete adjustments, and multi-entity consolidation across 8 regional offices.

After deploying Otto, the team automated invoice matching, journal entry generation, and inter-company reconciliation. Otto processes incoming invoices continuously — not in batch — so by month-end, 85% of transactions are already reconciled.

Cost-to-complete adjustments, which previously required manual review of every active project, are now generated by Otto based on earned value analysis, schedule progress, and change order history. Project managers review and approve — they don't create from scratch.

The result: month-end close dropped from 17 days to 3 days within 6 months of deployment. The finance team reallocated 400+ hours per month from close activities to strategic analysis and forecasting.

No headcount was added. No systems were replaced. Otto integrated with their existing ERP and project management stack via GLYPH.