Operating Plan Cockpit

VP FP&A · Monthly Close
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Budget-vs-Actual Variance Waterfall

EBITDA bridge · Plan → category +/− → Actual · June 2026
Totals Favorable Unfavorable
Click any bridge column to open the line-item detail. Plan EBITDA $0.82M → Actual $0.94M · +14.6% to plan

Variance Narrator

Top 3 material variances, in plain English, with a recommended action AI-authored

Department Spend

Cost-center actual vs budget · click a row to deep-dive Anomaly flags on
Cost centerActual / BudgetUtilizationVariance
Total OpEx $3.11M / $3.20M budget · −2.8% under

Forecast vs Actual

Rolling forecast · 90% confidence band
90% band · $4.6M–$5.0M next month
Base 64%Upside 22%Downside 14%
AI Re-forecast suggestion

Actuals are tracking +2.0% above base. AI proposes raising full-year revenue to $58.9M (was $57.7M) — confidence Base 64%. Open the scenario builder to apply.

Budget Utilization YTD

Annual budget consumed vs on-pace marker
78% of $76.8M annual budget utilized
$0Running efficient · 78% spent past mid-year pace (50%)$76.8M

Revenue Trend · Monthly vs Plan

Actual Plan

12-Month P&L Small-Multiples

Trailing-12 trend per line · sparkline cards Trend health
Trend read: Revenue +42% YoY, EBITDA margin climbing 11% → 19.5%, OpEx held flat while headcount grew 18% — operating leverage compounding cleanly into H2.

How to use this

A 90-second read for the office of the CFO
  • Drives the close call: this view answers "are we on plan?" before the variance memo goes to the board — green EBITDA bridge means you sign the close as-is.
  • Watch first: the EBITDA tile vs the Variance Narrator. If a variance is tagged structural rather than timing, that is the one that re-rates the full-year plan.
  • Read the waterfall: blue columns are the Plan→Actual anchors; green steps are favorable, red unfavorable. Click any column to see Volume / Price / Timing decomposition behind it.
  • Where AI helps: the Narrator writes the variance commentary, anomaly flags surface outlier cost centers, and the scenario builder re-forecasts the year in one click — turning a 3-day close pack into a conversation.
  • For your org: ask what share of each beat is durable vs pulled-forward. A +14% EBITDA print that is 85% durable is a re-forecast; 85% timing is a borrow against next quarter.

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