Efficient systems are critical for companies to streamline expense reporting and avoid wasting time. But many companies have separate functions that fail to update the FP&A team with important information, leaving them in the dark. This can get companies into trouble. For WWE, managing travel expenses posed a serious challenge. They manually reported expenses using outdated lists of employee roles from 2010, causing travel expenses to be attached to the wrong teams. Fixing this problem with manual checking required 15 full days each month. *Why don’t we have any travel budget left?* The Head of PR asked us once. *It’s only February and we haven’t gone anywhere.* Since Raftel Strategy specializes in streamlining financial reporting, we created a user-friendly standardized expense report for all business units, achieving three outcomes: 1. **Output for Accountants:** It told accountants exactly what was “spent” and “expensed” every month, making the accruals accurate. 2. **Operator Budget Management:** It put the responsibility of budget-management on operators, what they wanted in the first place, transforming the FP&A role from time-wasting middleman to strategic advisor. 3. **Output for Operators:** It empowered operators to map and manage their budgets, seeing what they already spent vs. how much remained for the year. This was the first time operators used these reports. As a result of this process, Raftel Strategy reduced the monthly close time for travel expenses from 15 days to 4 days—82 hours monthly—and a 73% increase in FP&A capacity for value-add activities. For an average FP&A manager making $150,000 per year, our efficient processes unlocked more than $76,000 in savings annually.