Stop Burning Hours in Excel: Why a Treasury Management System Belongs at the Center of Your Finance Stack
Every finance leader knows the pain: another Monday morning begins with logging in to half-a-dozen bank portals, exporting CSVs, pasting them into the monster cash-forecast workbook, and chasing colleagues for last-week’s actuals. It feels normal—until you add up the time. An industry survey found that treasury teams lose about 4,800 hours a year—the equivalent of two full-time employees—just keeping those spreadsheets alive.
That hidden payroll cost is the single biggest argument for a modern Treasury Management System (TMS). Platforms like Arpari (and peers such as Kyriba or Trovata) wire directly into your banks, automate processes and forecasting, and give CFOs live cash visibility without the swivel-chair gymnastics.
Four ways a TMS changes the game
- Real-time cash visibility
Bank APIs stream balances and transactions into one dashboard, so you see today’s liquidity picture—not last Friday’s. In Deloitte’s 2024 Global Treasury Survey, nearly every respondent cited “enhancing visibility and reporting” as a top reason for upgrading their tech stack. - Liberation from low-value tasks
Rules handle mundane work like GL coding while you sleep. Hempel Real Estate, for example, shaved 12 hours of manual work every month after consolidating hundreds of accounts through the Arpari platform. - Faster, smarter decisions
With data flowing automatically, finance teams spend time analyzing trends, optimizing working capital, and modelling scenarios—instead of hunting for numbers. - Stronger controls and audit readiness
Centralized user rights, payment logs, and automated segregation of duties make auditors smile. Deloitte notes that risk mitigation is now a primary driver for treasury-tech investment.
Turning saved hours into real ROI
Productivity isn’t just about head-count reduction—it’s about redeploying talent. The largest payback comes from repurposing time toward higher-impact work, not from cutting staff.
Imagine a mid-market real-estate group with five finance professionals. Freeing even 12 hours per person per month returns 60 hours to the business. That’ can redirect to capital-raising, tenant analytics, or debt-covenant management—initiatives that move the needle.
Why Arpari is purpose-built for multi-bank finance teams
Legacy TMS platforms were engineered for Fortune 500 multinationals. Arpari was designed from day one for middle-market businesses who juggle dozens—or hundreds—of bank accounts:
- Real-time data without IT headaches thanks to direct connections and our API partnerships.
- Business-centric custom tagging that maps every inflow and outflow to the right place.
- Embedded payments that shrink month-end close.
- Go-live in weeks, not quarters—so the ROI clock starts quickly.
Ready to give your team its week back?
If you’re still stitching spreadsheets, you’re leaving money on the table and burning out your staff. Book a 30-minute demo at arpari.com/demo to see how Arpari can hand those hours back—and turn your treasury function into a strategic advantage.
Arpari is a modern treasury management platform built for real-estate finance teams. We aggregate bank data, automate cash reporting, power smarter forecasting, and let you move money securely in one workspace.
