The Connected Business Planning Platform for CFOs, FP&A, Finance & Controlling by

  • Automate the flows of data, drastically reduce time to plan and report, and spend your time analysing and leading strategy conversations
  • Put beautiful plans and reports straight in the hands of those that need it
  • Collaborate across your organisation in real time, working as one connected team to deliver your organisation's planning and reporting processes
  • Response to changes in the business and environment rapidly, creating and assessing scenarios that support effective business decisions
  • Deploy planning applications quickly and update your models and business drivers as your business evolves
FP&A Financial Planning Dashboard with Scenario Planning, Bottom-up and Top Down Planning

Scenario Planning

Integrated Business Planning

Collaborative Business-Wide Planning

Integrations

Solution Configuration

  • Define a range of key drivers to perform scenario and what-if analysis to assess many versions of your plans
  • Choose how you want your solution to perform, combining top down, high level factors with detailed bottom-up planning models.
  • Display outputs in multiple formats, with the appropriate level of detail for the user. Easily pivot views and drill-down to granular source data and calculations.
  • We understand that your business operates in a dynamic manner, and therefore your plans and approaches need to continuously evolve too. With Pigment, you get a solution and a deployment that will allow you to own and change your solution in the future, without the need for technical resource or outside assistance
  • Pigment allows you to create and deploy many applications, while maintaining one consistent view over data. Critically, plans and data are connected in real-time across the applications and areas of your business, meaning your plans and users remain in sync and connected.
  • Your solution will allow you to model the interdependencies across your organisation, whether that's having one connected customer acquisition plan, through from marketing activities into sales cycle planning to converted revenue, or planning your headcount using critical growth drivers in the business linked to sales and customer volumes.
  • Integrated business planning allows you to keep all stakeholders aligned, ensure the correct teams are managing and are responsible for the plans made, and minimise planning cycles meaning you can be more agile, Pigment does this by allowing you the power to model how you need to for your business, With a priority on user experience, ease and collaboration.
  • One Team - Add comments, tag your teammates and have live conversations with everyone looking at the same data
  • Deliver to deadlines and and stop endless chasing emails and long back and forth threads. Manage all the engagement you need, keeping track of progress and setting and sending reminders when required
  • Manage complex security and user access requirements to ensure people only see what they need to, making your planning as easy as possible for them to complete, and maintaining confidential data in your organisation.
  • Sync data effortlessly from all of your business applications - across ERP, HRIS, CRM, Billing & Payment, Data Lakes and Warehouses, BI Solutions and File Storage.
  • Eliminate manual work in preparing, consolidating and transforming data, automatically schedule data flows and remove risk of inaccuracy. Enables your plans to be data driven, and you to gain insights on variance analysis to stay on track
  • Pigment has a large number of out-of-the-box integrations available, as well as the flexibility to build your own custom integrations or use other connectivity methods
  • Maximise hands-on time by your team, with them being as involved as possible based on your availability. This gives your team the knowledge and confidence to build and deploy their own applications, continuously improving your solution and driving value from Pigment.
  • We ensure effective project governance, while remaining agile to ensure that requirements are allowed to develop as your team design, use and see the power of Pigment.
  • Our role is to provide expert advice in the field of planning, bringing outside knowledge, best practices and innovative ideas to supplement those of your team. This thought leadership ensures you get a Pigment solution that delivers on the business value you expect.
  • Find out more about our deployment approach here

Industry Knowledge & Experience

As well as gaining a deep understanding of your business, it is vital to us that we bring experience of planning in your industry, so that you get the benefits of best practices and alternative ways of thinking. Find out more about our industry knowledge here

Revenue

People Cost

Spend Management

Acquisitions & Investments

Capital

Liquidity

3-Way Statements

  • Your business is unique and the industry you operate in plays an important role in the approach to revenue planning. We go deep on understanding your business, so we can better support you in assessing best practices that you can adopt. See more about our industry coverage here.
  • Good planning starts with leveraging your latest data, and with Pigment you have the flexibility to determine how you use this data, whether you want to build plans based on historical performance with assumed changes, or whether you provide as a comparison, taking a collaborative, zero based approach to your revenue.
  • Whether you want to plan top down for target setting, granular and bottom up across your sales teams, and take different approaches and determine how these interact, your Pigment Solution has you covered. Build assumptions to undertake scenario analysis, consider external factors such that market conditions, economic changes, market share or other evolving dynamics.
  • Pigment allows you to model your data using an impressive multidimensional approach, allowing you to create powerful models that are easy to work with, and stay relevant and insightful to your organisation.
  • Leverage your HRIS Data from across multiple systems to perform fully loaded workforce cost planning, with salary changes, benefits and on-costs planned based on drivers linked to employee, location, company, division, cost centre or any other dimension.
  • Plan for future workforce changes across attrition, new recruitment, training, and employee related expenses, however your business needs to, involving the key stakeholders in your organisation with collaborative business planning.
  • Remove the pain of headcount budget to actual reconciliation, pinpoint deviations with multi-dimensional granularity and refine plans in response to changes in the organisation.
  • Leverage data from HR and Payroll to review actual workforce changes against plans, automate the comparison to forecasts around headcount reconciliation and cost and provide an effective feedback loop to further enhance your planning activities.
  • Model complex performance pay structures or incentive schemes across payment or share options, use to plan and manage expected pay-outs or assess scheme changes or creation.
  • Give your budget holders to tools they need to manage their expenditure, while giving finance the ability to set direction, and pivot and change course where required.
  • Make your expense planning easy for users, with attractive interfaces, collaboration and guidance and minimise time and effort required to ensure adoption.
  • Whether you want to plan bottom up, historical plus assumed changes, by supplier, by activity or committed spend against an overall budget.
  • Model and assess scenarios around group company restructure, including the impact of consolidation of new acquisitions on group performance and position and potential acquisition costs, or the divestment of existing entities based on sale values, multiples or equity swaps.
  • For asset or investment management businesses, manage your investment performance, position and forecasts across your entire portfolio, whether you operate a buy-to-sell or buy-to-hold approach to your investments. Pigment allows you the flexibility to assess where you are today, as well as where your investments are heading in the future.
  • Make Capital expenditure plans across internal and external costs, where needed capturing planned staff allocations to capital projects associated with internal development or other resources.
  • Model the full life cycle of capital assets, through construction, operation, decommission, linking operating costs, revenue and capital outlays to assess key investment metrics.
  • Plan at whatever level of detail is appropriate to your organisation, be it Asset Class, Project, Supplier, Activity. Plan and manage spend against capital projects with construction periods, identifying ready for use and plan for acquisitions, depreciation, and carrying values.
  • Support liquidity planning across all timeframes with a fully integrated cashflow planning approach, including assessing exposures to foreign currency.
  • Ensure you stay on top of financial covenants and compliance, perform stress testing of your business model to ensure you are sufficiently mitigated against liquidity risks.
  • For businesses operating in high growth or early stages of development, understand your cash burn rates and runway to deliver sustainable performance and business continuity.
  • We provide an out of the box, principle based approach to 3-way statement modelling, ensuring you get a fully balanced, driver based, fully reconciled solution. This approach reduces risk and is configurated to allow easy expansion and customisation, ensuring you get a model that meets the needs of your business, quickly and efficiently.
  • We always consider the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow impacts of the use case we model, we do this upfront to ensure it is modelled in a manner that meets all requirements.
  • Provide Business leaders and shareholders with a complete perspective of the business, as well as plan for initiatives that improve cashflow, investment metrics and profitability.
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