Enhanced Financial Analysis and Reporting with visual storytelling and automation

Matasma engaged with a global CPG & Retail player, in enhancing financial analysis and reporting with improved visual storytelling and automation

Challenges

Global supply chain issues, such as semiconductor shortages, can impact production and delivery.
  • Ensuring accurate currency conversion of current data into historic year FX rates, maintaining consistency across different reporting periods
  • Managing LE submissions from multiple entities, aligning them with the Global Model while maintaining data accuracy
  • Identifying and resolving variance issues between current year values and historic FX-adjusted data to ensure correct financial analysis
  • Automating FX rate update, submission processing, and variance reporting while enabling a user-friendly bulk LE submission method for efficient large-scale data uploads

Our Approach

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The existing excel based planning process was cumbersome, often taking up to 3 weeks to develop rolling forecast.
  • Implemented data integration & mapping, ensuring seamless data flow from the global model to the Cashflow Model, eliminating the need for manual uploads
  • Design and set up of automation workflows using cloud works, enabling automated data refresh cycles for efficient and continuous updates
  • Built functionality to change the Current Year data using different historic FX rates, ensuring accurate and consistent financial analysis across time periods
  • Developed LE submission through file upload, which supports bulk data uploads and reduces manual intervention

Delivered Outcomes

Global supply chain issues, such as semiconductor shortages, can impact production and delivery.
  • Automated FX rate applications, submission processing, and variance reporting, reducing manual intervention and improving operational efficiency
  • Developed bulk LE submissions via file upload, eliminating manual data entry and streamlining the data submission process
  • Ensured accurate currency conversion for historic year FX rates, maintaining consistency across reporting periods for reliable financial analysis
  • Achieved automated data refresh cycles, ensuring the Cashflow Model is consistently updated with real-time data for accurate reporting

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