Why Multi-Entity Consolidation Still Takes Weeks (And How PE Firms Are Fixing It)

Your portfolio companies close their books in two weeks. You get group-level visibility in five.

For private equity firms managing multi-entity portfolios, financial consolidation remains trapped in the 1990s. Finance teams export data from disparate ERPs, manually map thousands of accounts across non-standard charts, reconcile intercompany transactions in Excel, and chase down discrepancies through email threads. The process consumes 6-14 days per month—every month.

This isn't a staffing problem. It's an architecture problem.