Every manual step in the close is a bug.
Owns the close at a 40-person company. Cares about approval chains, role permissions and whether transactions sync to the ledger without cleanup.
Ex-Big-4 accountant, first in-house finance hire at a Series A SaaS company. Closes the books in five days and wants it at two. Evaluates banking by how much reconciliation work it removes and whether permissions map to the org chart.
Goes to integrations and permissions pages first; inspects audit-log screenshots; counts clicks to close.
A five-day close that should be two; an auditor request; a new hire who needs limited access.
Each trait scored 0–100, where 50 is the population average.
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