Lallier Construction reclaims 90% of their accounting cycle with Intuit Enterprise Suite

From construction SMB to a true mid-market player

Lallier Construction (LCI), a family-owned construction leader across Colorado, reached a critical point in its growth journey a few years ago. With four separate entities and five distinct internal divisions, the leadership team realized they had outgrown the small business label. While their legacy systems created manual bottlenecks, the implementation of Intuit Enterprise Suite provided the ERP-level infrastructure required to scale. By reclaiming up to 16-18 hours of accounting labor per week and unifying fragmented financial data, LCI has set a foundation to triple its revenue over the next three years.

Time sinks into manual processes and intercompany data management

Before adopting Intuit Enterprise Suite, LCI operated in a state of “manual legwork.” The team was bogged down by a disjointed tech stack, utilizing Foundation for construction management and separate instances of QuickBooks Online that didn't communicate. This lack of integration forced the finance team to treat each account like a distinct “bucket,” where sub-transactions had to be split and allocated by hand.

The most significant drain on resources was intercompany transactions. During the busy season, the team managed hundreds of invoices between LCI and its metal manufacturing arm, Western Architectural Metals (WAM). Darla Hennessey, Controller, noted that the process was fraught with risk, as they had to record every transaction twice. “You’d have to make sure you match up the invoices you were paying in LCI to the invoices you were receiving in WAM,” Hennessey explains, adding that it was “a ton of work to just keep making sure you did the transaction in both sides” without being distracted or forgetting a step.

Blake Rohm, Director of Finance, noted that on a busy week, he was spending 10 to 20 hours simply ensuring intercompany data was correct. The lack of a unified view meant that critical strategic insights, such as departmental break-even points, remained buried under what Rohm describes as heavy legwork into Excel spreadsheets.

Moving under a central hub with Intuit Enterprise Suite

LCI’s leadership recognized they needed a central hub of operations where everything worked in and out of a single source of truth. Intuit Enterprise Suite’s ability to manage multiple entities and divisions, specifically through features like intercompany journal entries and dimensions made the shift for LCI an easy choice.

Thanks to Intuit Enterprise Suite, the team moved away from manual duplicate entries across accounts to a multi-entity ERP that allows them to manage intercompany journal entries on one page. This was coupled with the implementation of QuickBooks Time and Payroll, featuring geofencing for field employees. This integration ensures that data flows seamlessly from the job site to the back office, allowing the team to simplify and follow along with labor costs in real-time.

The integrated ecosystem strategy of Intuit Enterprise Suite was a decisive factor for President Michael Lallier. By choosing a platform that prioritizes open architecture, Lallier says they are better positioned to avoid “broken promises” of the past where vendors often struggled to provide the connectivity his business requires.

Data deep dives and increasing efficiency by 90%

The transition to Intuit Enterprise Suite completely reallocated how the finance team spends its time. During the busy season, the time required for matching transactions and month-end reconciliation has plummeted from a high of 20 hours to just 2-4 hours per week. This 80% to 90% efficiency gain allows the finance department to move from data entry to true data analysis.

The team is now utilizing dimensions to break down LCI’s five divisions to generate “accurate P&Ls for each.” This granular visibility is critical for Lallier’s vision of departmental accountability. By putting information in front of department heads in an easily digestible way, the company can now track work in progress and over-under billing without the errors associated with manual entry.

The quality of professional support has also seen a “level of expertise” shift, says Hennessey. She notes that the Intuit Enterprise Suite team provides instrumental help in navigating complex payroll rollovers and engineering-level API questions.

Powering prosperity and employee ownership

With the financial foundation stable, LCI is focused on a “vision to eventually get the company out and hand it over to employees,” Lallier says. The near-future roadmap includes:

• Full API integration: Completing the “central location” vision by integrating CRM and roofing software (Java/FCS) directly into the Intuit Enterprise Suite financial core.
• Advanced “work in progress” reporting: Moving from basic figures to automated “actual percentages” on over-under reports to monitor liquidity ratios at “a 60,000-foot view.”
• 3x revenue growth: Scaling from the current baseline to a threefold increase in annual turnover across three years.

COO Andy Coria says the goal is to “run our business from just one central location,” ensuring that as the company grows, its software remains an engine for activity rather than a limit on it.