Eleven clients, eleven monthly reports, all due in the first week. The numbers came from four different platforms and the commentary came from whoever had run the account that month. It was assembly work that felt like analysis and left no time for the analysis.
What we put on the board
A Data Analyst pulls the figures for each account into the same shape every time and writes the movement, with the query it ran attached. A Source Reader gathers what the account team wrote during the month so the commentary starts from what actually happened rather than from memory.
The account lead edits. That was always the valuable half, and it is now the only half a person does.
Assembly is not analysis. It only felt like it because it took the same week.