The accounting manager's reality
You're the one who actually does the work. While the CFO watches the dashboard and the controller signs off, you're the one clearing the reconciliation queue, chasing down missing invoices, posting journal entries, and keeping the close checklist moving.
At most companies, that means 80% of your time goes to work that is fundamentally mechanical — categorizing transactions, matching payments, building the same schedules you built last month. Campfire automates that layer so you can spend your time on the 20% that actually requires your judgment.
What Campfire automates for accounting managers
Transaction categorization — Accounting Intelligence categorizes transactions automatically based on vendor history, description, and GL patterns. You review and approve a clean queue instead of coding from scratch. Teams report going from an hour per line item to clearing the entire list in 10 minutes.
Bank reconciliation — Campfire matches bank transactions to GL entries automatically, including multi-currency and variance handling. Unmatched items surface for your review. 90% of bank rec time saved is the average across Campfire customers.
Journal entries — Ember AI drafts journal entries from uploaded documents — invoices, bills, contracts — and posts them directly to the GL. You review before anything posts.
Accruals — Prepaid amortization, recurring accruals, and reversal entries run on schedules you configure once. They post automatically each period without you rebuilding them.
Intercompany matching — If you're managing multiple entities, intercompany transactions are matched automatically and flagged for elimination in the consolidated view.
The close checklist
Campfire's built-in close checklist replaces the spreadsheet or FloQast workflow most teams are using. Tasks are assigned, tracked, and tied to supporting documentation. You can see exactly what's done, what's in progress, and what's blocked — without sending status update emails.
What changes day-to-day
- Open Campfire and see a queue of items that need your review, not a blank slate to build from
- Bank rec that used to take two days takes two hours
- Journal entries suggested, not created from scratch
- The close checklist tells you what's left, not your calendar reminders
TwelveLabs described bank reconciliation after Campfire as "life-changing — eliminated 80% of our bandwidth." That's what happens when the mechanical work gets automated.
Also relevant for
This page is relevant for accounting professionals across a range of titles including: Accounting Manager, Head of Accounting, Senior Finance Manager, and Finance Transformation roles focused on accounting operations.