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Ask a controller at a growing company what they actually do during the first week of every month, and you'll usually get some version of the same answer: chase people for numbers. Chase the warehouse manager for a final inventory count. Chase sales for the last few invoices that haven't been entered yet. Chase whoever owns the corporate card spreadsheet.
There's a particular moment a lot of finance directors at growing companies will recognize. It usually happens during a board meeting or a bank renewal, when someone asks a question that should have a simple answer — what did we spend on freight last quarter, or which customers are actually profitable — and the honest response is "give me a few days." Not because the data doesn't exist, but because it's scattered across QuickBooks, four spreadsheets maintained by four different people...