Your ledger is the source, not a copy.
Nothing is exported, pasted, or reconciled by hand. The model reads the books you already keep, and it rebases the moment they change.
Company
Finance shouldn't spend the month explaining last month.
Finla is a connected finance platform for lean finance teams: actuals, budgets, assumptions, forecasts, and reporting kept in sync. It was built by a finance lead who spent ten years rebuilding all of it by hand to explain a month that had already ended.
Why we built it
Ten years of explaining a month that had already ended.
Every close ran the same way. Pull the trial balance, rebuild the same workbook, chase the variances, then write a narrative that sounded a lot like last quarter's.
By the time the deck was approved, the month it described was six weeks old. Leadership asked good questions about it, and answering them meant opening the workbook again.
The part that mattered, deciding what to do next, got whatever hours were left. Usually none.
Finla is the system I wanted then. The forecast is built from the ledger instead of exported from it. The narrative drafts itself and names the cell behind every claim. Finance still reviews and approves every word.
The assembly was never the job. The judgment was.
Principles we build on
Four beliefs the product argues for.
A number without its clock is a guess.
Every figure says how fresh it is. Live cash and settled burn are never blended without saying so, and a half-posted month never poses as a trend.
Drafts, never decisions.
Finla writes the first draft and shows its work. Nothing reaches leadership until finance approves it. Review is the design, not a disclaimer.
Every claim traces to a cell.
If a sentence cites a number, you can click it and land on the source it came from. Trust should be a link you can follow, not a promise you take.
Who's behind it
Lizzeth Almendarez
Founder
Ten years in FP&A, most of it as the person who owned the close and the board deck. I built Finla after rebuilding the same reporting pack one too many times.
If you run finance at a lean team, I'd like to hear how your month actually goes.
Let's talk about your reporting cycle.
Bring one close. I'll show you what Finla drafts from your own numbers, and you can tell me where it's wrong.