Budget Planning & Forecasting in Pigment
Budget planning and forecasting could be so much easier
Year-end budget planning and forecasting can be a daunting task for finance teams. The story is the same every year:
Manual data collection and consolidation
Lack of cross-functional alignment
Complex models that make re-forecasting difficult
Lengthy and time-consuming budget planning and forecasting cycles
A more coherent way to plan and forecast
Watch the 2 minute demo below to see how to budget and forecast in Pigment.
Surface actionable insights
Run variance analysis on the same platform you build your budget. Understand and flag the reasons behind identified gaps (budget overspend or budget pulled in, exceptional events, etc).
Act and react at speed
Increase the number of times you forecast and shorten your planning cycle. Update your rolling forecasts in one click and reduce your organization’s time-to-reaction to external and internal events.
Working together made better
Make budget planning and forecasting a truly collaborative process by connecting teams and their data sets in a central location.
Key features for effective budget planning and forecasting
Scenarios on the fly
Run what-if scenarios in minutes to assess the key drivers that affect your business.
Actuals and forecast
Instantly add a new actual and forecast period everywhere in your model.
Granular access rights
Pigment offers fine-grained security controls to let you configure what an individual or a group of users can do, see, or modify on any board, metric, dimension or cell.
“The creation of a new cost center is 4 times faster. We are able to create them in bulk and attach them to the right dimensions/attributes with the appropriate hierarchy in a few clicks instead of creating them one by one and updating each dependency file.”
Marianne Vandeville · Financial Controlling Director