Graduating from Manual Finance: How Simmons College Improved Month-End Close by 50%
Spending made smarter
Easy-to-use cards, funds, approval flows, vendor payments -plus an average savings of 5%.1
As the new CFO of Simmons College of Kentucky, one of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Bright Afriyie was determined to modernize the university’s operations to ensure every institutional resource counted toward creating the next generation of leaders.
Hear how Bright used Ramp Cards to upgrade Simmons College of Kentucky’s financial operations - once built around paper forms, manual approvals, and limited spend visibility - to an easier, more efficient, audit-ready process, via:
- Ramp Cards that capture employee spend with real-time controls and transparency
- Fast employee adoption, growing from 3 to 38 users in just a few months
- Easy-to-build accounting workflows that connect to QuickBooks for 30% faster close
- Time and financial savings of 5-8 admin hours per week, plus a 70% reduction in time per transaction
About the speakers
Bright Afriyie
CFO, Simmons College of Kentucky
Gabriel Gibson
Public Sector, Ramp
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