How Zapier accelerated finance clarity and decision-making with Aleph
With Miranda Conley, Senior Director of Accounting at Zapier
Zapier is the world’s leading automation platform, powering workflows across more than 8,000 web apps for millions of users and businesses around the globe. As a fully remote, automation-driven company, Zapier’s finance team manages operations across multiple time zones, systems, and entities—requiring tools as flexible and connected as their own product.
Challenges before Aleph:
- Fragmented workflows: Operating fully remote meant data and processes were scattered across tools, making collaboration slow and manual.
- Limited transparency: Finance and accounting teams relied on spreadsheets and static reports, which limited real-time visibility across departments.
- Manual effort: Month-end close, variance analysis, and reporting cycles required heavy data prep and repetitive tasks.
- Growing complexity: As headcount and cost centers expanded, maintaining accuracy and speed in planning became increasingly difficult.
The implementation was so seamless that I barely remember it happening. Aleph’s team mapped our workflows, launched our first use cases within weeks, and had everyone up and running fast.
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The solution and results after Aleph:
Zapier adopted Aleph to centralize its planning, reporting, and close processes in a single, connected platform. The team launched their first use cases within weeks—without the usual headaches of a complex implementation.
With Aleph’s spreadsheet-native interface, the accounting and finance teams could keep the flexibility they loved while unlocking automation and structure across workflows.
Aleph connected directly to Zapier’s source systems, enabling faster collaboration, real-time data, and a shared source of truth across teams.
Aleph brought our finance and accounting teams closer than ever. We’re finally speaking the same language, looking at the same numbers, and making decisions with confidence.
The Impact
Aleph transformed Zapier’s finance team from manual report builders to real-time strategic enablers.
- Faster reporting: Month-end reviews and variance analysis that once took days are now largely automated.
- Real-time insights: ARR tracking, dashboards, and budget-to-actuals are powered directly from their data warehouse.
- Stronger alignment: Finance, accounting, and business partners now work from the same live data—building trust and speeding up decisions.
- Seamless scale: As Zapier continues to grow, Aleph scales with them—supporting more models, more users, and deeper automation without slowing down.
To learn more about Zapier, visit https://zapier.com/
What used to take hours now takes minutes. Aleph gave us real-time visibility into our data and turned finance into a proactive, insight-driven partner to the business.
Zapier’s CFO on discovering Aleph — "the first PLG FP&A tool he’s ever used."
Clip from CJ Gustafson’s podcast.
Aleph brought our finance and accounting teams closer than ever. We’re finally speaking the same language, looking at the same numbers, and making decisions with confidence.
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