ERP

Ramp · Dec 19, 2025

Closing the Books Without the Spreadsheet Shuffle: My Fall Internship at Ramp

During a fall internship at Ramp, the author worked on reducing repetitive accounting work around month-end close, focusing on amortization and ERP mapping workflows. One project uses receipt data, merchant category codes, customer history, and embedding similarity to detect likely prepaid expenses and suggest service periods and accounts or templates, with recommendations reviewable before application. A second built Ramp-Native Amortization to create schedules, generate periodic debit and credit journal entries, handle catch-ups and reclassifications, and sync entries to ERPs through a dashboard; transaction and reimbursement support was nearing alpha production release, while bill pay was next. The third generates high-confidence mapping-rule suggestions from customer coding patterns on a nightly schedule. Across the work, backtesting, accuracy metrics, and human workflow research support automation intended to earn trust rather than remove accountant judgment.