American Roads
Transportation Infrastructure • Toll Assets
Company Overview
Lean Team, High Turnover, Long Close Times
American Roads is an owner and operator of transportation infrastructure, specializing in toll assets within the highways, bridges, and tunnels sector. With 8+ subsidiaries, the company faced significant operational challenges.
Like many infrastructure companies managing complex multi-entity operations, American Roads struggled with a lean accounting team, high staff turnover, and a lack of standard operating procedures. The loss of key personnel over the prior year compounded these issues, leading to inefficient processes and extended close times that strained the remaining team.
"All processes were manual, siloed between systems with task lists and internal controls housed in Excel. Integrating Bean brought these together into one unified platform."
The team needed a solution that could unify their fragmented systems, establish standardized workflows, and reduce the manual burden on their already stretched accounting resources.
AI-Powered Workflows for Greater Efficiency
The Bean AI Platform automates month-end close, reconciliations, strategic projects, and audit prep with AI-powered workflows that reduce manual work and empower teams to get more done. For American Roads, this meant bringing together their ERP, cloud storage, and checklists with reconciliations into one cohesive system.
With Bean, the team can now close faster by reducing days spent on the close by up to 50%, double their reconciliation and insights coverage, build in compliance as they work to stay audit ready, and leverage agentic and generative AI to increase productivity across the board.
The unified platform approach eliminated the silos that had plagued their operations, giving leadership complete visibility into the close process across all 8+ subsidiaries.
Unified Platform
Bean brought together ERP systems, cloud storage, and checklists with reconciliations into one unified platform, eliminating siloed processes.
100% Audit Trail Coverage
Every transaction and reconciliation is now fully documented with complete audit trails, ensuring compliance and transparency across all subsidiaries.
50% Less Audit Prep Time
With built-in compliance and organized documentation, the team now spends half the time preparing for audits, freeing up resources for strategic work.
The Expected Impact
By implementing Bean, American Roads anticipates a 60% decrease in close days, saving 20+ hours per month per team member. With 100% audit trail coverage and 50% less audit prep time, the lean team can focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual reconciliation tasks.
The result: More visibility, enhanced transparency, greater efficiency, and a projected 315% ROI.
