Spitfire planning analytics
Consultants who've been there.
We are seasoned pros who thrive on solving your problems. Using IBM Planning Analytics, we bring your financial and non-financial data together to tackle your toughest challenges. From creating smarter models to helping you make better decisions, we’ll shape solutions that work for your business.
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Adam, Declan, Edward, & Simon, spreadsheet fanatics & consultants extraordinaire. We use our expertise to deliver top-tier support with your financial planning. We are experts at harmonising our expertise to deliver top-tier support with financial planning. We’ve all worked in the industry and have in-depth knowledge of TM1, financial planning, and how to help finance teams, senior management, analysis professionals, and more with all of their financial planning and analysis needs.
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Industries
Tailored to your industry, we have experience in ensuring you get the insight you need to achieve the best for your business, expand and not just maintain financial models, and help with the company’s major business decisions. No matter your industry, we’ll pick it up quicker than you can blink. We’ve got you covered, in your language, in your time.
Construction
High risk, high reward, over a long period. We know how important it is to monitor performance throughout time and are experienced in delivering industry-standard cost value reconciliations (CVR) to monitor and measure expenditures against budget.
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Engineering
Projects with precision, we’re here to help you streamline planning, track your resources, and deliver effective results. We leverage the advanced technologies and data collection used in the industry to take your financials to a whole new level.
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Manufacturing
Rising costs, shifting demand – manufacturing is no easy ride. We help you streamline your supply chain, improve inventory management, and make smarter, data-driven decisions to drive profitability.
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Finance and professional services
Financial models designed to change with the times, unlike our collective love of Excel – that will last forever. We help you model for changes to the regulatory environment, build up a good structure for your data and get actionable insights that impress.
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Education
Unlike your students’ love of late-night ramen, university finances are anything but predictable. From tuition fees to funding challenges, we help you make sense of the numbers. Using existing student data, we’ll guide you in planning student numbers, managing budgets, and building financial models that adapt to growth and change – no all-nighters required.
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Retail
Stay sharp and keep an eye on your data, from brick and mortar to e-commerce. We help you build systems with real-time information to support strategic-level decisions covering the type of outlet, target demographic, product mix, support services and a store’s overall market positioning.
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Not sure what IBM Planning Analytics (aka TM1, Cognos, etc) even is or how to get started with financial planning and analysis or financial modelling? We’ve got you covered.
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The benefits of centralisation
The tension between finance and the commercial function will likely be familiar to you.
Your FP&A team spend their time wrestling the numbers to get the budget and forecast sorted. They view these resources as indicators of how the business is performing: how many miles are on the clock and what speed you are moving at. Meanwhile, the drivers of the business – the commercial function – are looking for sat nav. Something to tell them how to reach their destination and how long it will take them. Once they get there, they’ll work out the speed they were going at, their mileage and how much fuel they used. The distance between these two...
How Planning Analytics supports Financial Consolidation across a Group
Financial Consolidation Across a Group of Companies
The client looked at different systems and decided to use Planning Analytics, as it would be one system that could perform the full financial cycle from consolidation of actuals through to planning the client’s future moves. Each company within the group had different source accounting systems, Planning Analytics easily integrated with each one – even providing the ability to drill all the way through and see the individual journal transactions that made up each figure in the statements. This provided visibility with an ease that seemed a million miles away before! Every single transaction was recorded and logged for auditability...
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