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The Reconciliation Checklist for Month-End Readiness
Accelerate Accuracy, Control, and Compliance with NeoXam Aro
Month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes remain some of the most stressful moments for operations teams. The challenge? Most tools force teams to stop daily processes in order to handle period-end. That creates bottlenecks, late nights, and unnecessary risk.
NeoXam Aro solves that. It gives your ops team a modern reconciliation platform that keeps daily workflows running while you work through period-end processing. No freeze, no delays, no fire drills.
With centralized data ingestion, AI-driven exception handling, real-time dashboards, and audit-ready reporting, Aro turns reconciliation from a manual, month-end scramble into a scalable, controlled process.
The Real Challenge: Period-End Without Disruption
Closing the books at month-end or quarter-end often forces teams into stop-start workflows, requiring the pausing of daily reconciliations to process period-end cuts. Legacy tools can’t support both at once, leading to duplication, delays, and unnecessary risk.
Aro’s period-end functionality eliminates that trade-off. It lets you designate a formal period end value date while keeping live reconciliations running, thereby ensuring operational continuity and data accuracy.
What Makes Period End Reconciliation Complex?
Daily + Period Processes Collide
Teams must reconcile daily data while preparing a clean snapshot for end-of-month.
Manual Freezes & Snapshots
Traditional tools rely on manual data extracts or parallel environments.
Exception Pressure
Breaks from earlier in the month can resurface at the worst time…. when you’re closing the books!
Audit & Compliance Demands
Period-end requires documented control, lineage, and approvals, most especially at financial year end.
What Happens Without the Right Tools?
- Missed deadlines, inaccurate NAVs, and client escalations
- Staff burnout from repeated manual processes and late nights
- Regulatory scrutiny from inconsistent control evidence
The cost of inefficiency adds up fast, especially at month-end.
The Month-End Reconciliation Checklist
Use this checklist to evaluate your readiness to handle month-end and other period-end activities without disrupting your daily operations. NeoXam Aro enables each of these with built-in, no-code functionality.
1. Simultaneous Daily and Month-end Without Conflict
Are you able to continue daily reconciliation while period-end work is in progress?
The Challenge: Many platforms require you to pause or clone environments for period-end snapshots.
How Aro Helps:
- Supports live daily reconciliation alongside period-end views using configurable cut-off logic.
- Enables users to compare period-end balances with current state in real time.
- Maintains historical snapshots for audit and validation—no data loss, no duplication.
2. Centralized Data Integration
Can you consistently onboard and normalize data from all your sources?
The challenge: Fragmented data means analysts lose precious time hunting for files, reformatting feeds, and reconciling inconsistent layouts.
How NeoXam Aro helps:
- Consolidates data ingestion, transformation, and normalization into a single workflow.
- Standardizes trades, positions, and cash data from multiple systems and external parties.
- Provides reusable templates so new custodians, brokers, or fund administrators can be onboarded quickly.
3. Intelligent Exception Handling
Are you equipped to quickly resolve breaks before period close?
The challenge: Manual exception review can’t keep up during high-volume periods.
How NeoXam Aro helps:
- Uses AI and rules-based engines to auto-detect and categorize exceptions.
- Look through on break attributes between the daily and the month-end reconciliations for the same break.
- Auto-buckets known exception patterns so teams focus only on true breaks.
- Predictive analytics highlight recurring error patterns—for example, systematic static data issues or timing mismatches.
- Reduces manual review effort by more than 50%, allowing teams to concentrate on high-risk cases.
4. Reconciliation Coverage Across Books
Are your IBOR vs. ABOR, cash and ledger recons accurate and complete?
The challenge: Disconnected processes lead to misstatements and last-minute surprises.How NeoXam Aro helps:
- Supports multi-dimensional IBOR vs. ABOR reconciliation, including positions, valuations, and P&L.
- Reconciles trial balances, cash projections, and bank balanceswithin the same platform.
- Advanced matching rules and algorithms improve match rates from 95% to over 98.5%, dramatically shrinking break volumes.
5. Real-Time Dashboards & SLA Monitoring
Do you have live visibility into your month-end reconciliation progress?
The challenge: Without live oversight, issues surface too late, often causing SLAs breaches or even surfacing after the month-end window has closed.
How NeoXam Aro helps:
- Delivers customizable reconciliation dashboards with RAG status indicators across all reconciliations.
- Tracks month-end SLA performance by business line, client, region, or reconciliation type separate to the SLA for daily processes.
- Flags SLA risks and breaches via alerts and widgets that highlight overdue files or unresolved breaks.
- Provides auditors and regulators with a complete data trail and time-stamped evidence of review and approval.
6. Scalability for Month-End Peaks
Can your platform handle reconciliation spikes at period-end?
The challenge: Legacy tools struggle with >100% volume spikes at month-end, quarter-end or year-end.
How NeoXam Aro helps:
- Uses a microservices-based architecture to deliver high performance and elasticity.
- Scales horizontally to handle reconciliation spikes without degrading user experience.
- Offers flexible deployment: on-premise, cloud, or SaaS, depending on your infrastructure strategy and regulatory needs.
Measurable Business Impact
Clients using our data reconciliation software have achieved:
Match Rates
1
%+
Increased accuracy across trade, position, and cash reconciliations.
Fewer Exceptions
1
%
Through AI-based exception pattern detection.
Operational Cost Reduction
1
%
Lower IT dependency, fewer manual interventions.
Go-Live in Hours, Not Days: Modular, low-code implementation approach
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