Case Study: Leading Electric Utility Company reduces month-end close by days with Vena Solutions

Reducing the month-end close process by days with automated templates

A leading electric utility was hampered by a manual, time‑consuming month‑end close: finance staff downloaded five separate trial balance reports from their ERP, copied and pasted data into Excel to build 40 entity reports, and performed inter‑company eliminations by hand — repeating the work for every template change.

Vena connected to the client’s Great Plains GL, automatically loading data into prebuilt income statements and balance sheets, auto‑generating P&L reports for all 40 entities, providing a single editable month‑end template, and automating eliminations. The result was a shorter close measured in days, faster and more accurate reporting, fewer errors, and finance teams freed to focus on higher‑value analysis.