Case Study: Meeting Street achieves faster, more accurate management reporting with Workiva

Meeting Street Increases Efficiency and Accuracy with Workiva for Management Reporting

Meeting Street, a New England nonprofit that provides individualized education and support to children and families, faced fragmented and manual financial processes when Nazik Fernandes joined as Director of Finance. With separate general ledgers for Rhode Island and Massachusetts, heavy Excel reliance, repeated pivot-table work and email-based edits, the finance team spent up to eight hours preparing monthly reports and struggled with slow, error-prone budgeting and limited collaboration.

Nazik implemented the Workiva management reporting platform to centralize data, link financials, and give managers direct access and authorship visibility. The change automated updates and streamlined workflows, cutting monthly report preparation from eight hours to one, accelerating the budget cycle (completed in about two weeks), and improving accuracy, transparency and cross-team collaboration—results that pleased leadership and the board.

Meeting Street

Nazik Fernandes

Director of Finance