Rivac LabsFP&A Analyst
Annual budgets go stale by February, and most monthly business reviews spend more time reconciling numbers than deciding what to do about them. This service builds a rolling forecast process and a repeatable variance-analysis cadence, so leadership sees where actuals are diverging from plan while there's still time to react. It's built for finance teams that need more than a once-a-year budget exercise — a living planning process that updates monthly, flags the drivers behind every variance, and feeds directly into the business review. The result is planning that keeps pace with the business instead of a document everyone quietly ignores after Q1.
How We’d Approach This
A clear, staged plan — not a black box
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Diagnose the current budgeting cadence and pinpoint where actuals-vs-plan reporting breaks down or gets ignored.
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Pilot a rolling forecast for one department or cost center to validate the driver-based approach before scaling it company-wide.
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Review variance findings and forecast mechanics with department owners to build both accuracy and buy-in.
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Operate the monthly close-to-forecast-to-business-review cycle on a fixed calendar, with driver-level variance commentary each period.
What You Get
Deliverables from this engagement
- Rolling 12-18 month forecast model
- Monthly variance analysis with driver-level commentary
- Business-review-ready reporting package
- Documented budgeting and forecasting process
- Department-level forecast ownership handoff
Six Ways We Could Architect This
Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits
There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.
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