Case Study: The Joffrey Ballet cuts month-end close time with Ramp

How The Joffrey Ballet cut their month-end close time with Ramp

The Joffrey Ballet, a Chicago-based nonprofit ballet company, was dealing with a highly manual and fragmented finance process for payroll, reimbursements, and invoice payments. As a result, the team was cutting 30-50 checks per week, lacked real-time visibility into spend, and spent significant time managing spreadsheets, submission forms, and fraud-prone corporate cards. The organization turned to Ramp, using its accounting automation, accounts payable, corporate cards, and expense management tools to modernize these workflows.

With Ramp, The Joffrey Ballet consolidated credit cards, ACH payments, check payments, reimbursements, and bill pay into one automated system. The result was a much faster AP process, 15 hours saved weekly, 8 hours saved streamlining processes, and $10K saved annually from consolidating systems. Ramp also helped the finance team restore a full workday for its AP coordinator, improve mid-month spend visibility, and cut month-end close time so all AP activities are now wrapped by day 5.

Joffrey Ballet

Gee Hoon Lim

Director of Finance