How BlaBlaCar centralized their budgeting and reporting processes with Pigment

At a glance

• The FP&A team’s main objectives are focused on reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• They struggled with centralized processes prior to Pigment.
• Pigment delivered advantages in collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and modeling flexibility.

As the world's leading long-distance carpooling platform, BlaBlaCar operates in 22 countries, facilitating cost-effective, sustainable travel for millions of members. The platform offers a unique way to travel by allowing users to share the costs of their journey, meet new people, and reduce their carbon footprint.

Financial planning at BlaBlaCar

A global team with diverse operational industries puts forth its unique set of challenges. For BlaBlaCar, they needed to produce centralized and timely monthly/quarterly reports, forecasting, and budgeting. The traditional tools in use made it impossible to share licenses with internal stakeholders, which proved to be a significant bottleneck.

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The transition to Pigment

The transition to Pigment brought three main benefits:

• Collaboration
  The FP&A team is now able to work with a broader range of stakeholders than before.
• Flexibility
  Pigment allows the team to build efficient models however the business requires.
• User experience
  The BlaBlaCar team finds their new platform far more enjoyable and easy to use compared to legacy tools.

Ultimately, change means the FP&A team is more able to provide accurate, up-to-date insights to stakeholders across the company.

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