You join a company where an important finance workflow is being handled inconsistently across teams, with manual spreadsheets, unclear ownership, and no documented close process. You are asked to stand up a repeatable process quickly so leadership can rely on the numbers for planning and reporting.
Describe a situation where you had to build a financial process from scratch with very little guidance. How did you decide what the process should be, align stakeholders, manage the risks of getting it wrong, and make sure it would actually be adopted?