Forecasting
Finance teams with effective, automated planning, budgeting and forecasting processes deliver the most value-add for their business.
Align financial plans to AUM
Income and AUM are clearly linked. Our single, combined model forecasts AUM, including a forecast for net flows, and associated yield. Baseline plans can be generated using WMA indices or any other variable, whilst users can apply manual adjustments as required.
Cost & Headcount planning
Recognising the importance of headcount to both income and cost base, our planning models allow users to create or utilise existing headcount plans to drive out all staff cost lines.
Non-staff costs are no less important. Driver based planning models allow for both a top-down or bottom-up approach. Detailed data sets, including historical comparatives, are available for zero based budgeting.
Balance Sheet & Cashflow forecasting
As a core component of capital adequacy reporting, our balance sheet and cashflow models flow partly from the P&L and partly from driver based assumptions. Outputs become the base data for ICAAP reporting and stress testing.
Shorten your planning cycles
Accelerate your FP&A cycles by automating data collection, aggregation and validation. Reallocate the time previously lost on manual tasks to true analysis and understanding.
Perform fast, flexible analysis or test an unlimited number of scenarios to compare outcomes and immediately see the financial impact of alternative courses of action.
Visualise data
Easily create compelling visualisations to spot trends and measure performance. Drill down within visualisations or slice and dice data for even deeper analysis.
React in real time
FinanceBI have incorporated rolling forecast methodology into the planning and budgeting model. Because of their responsive nature, rolling forecasts allow finance to:
- shorten planning cycles
- gain greater visibility into the business
- alert executives earlier
- better anticipate changing business environments, and
- maximize profitability/ minimize losses
Perform fast, flexible analysis or test an unlimited number of scenarios to compare outcomes and immediately see the financial impact of alternative courses of action.
