Modernizing financial performance at EDHEC with Pigment

At a glance

• 180+ employees onboarded in Pigment, including 60 who directly input their budget data.
  
• Reliable, centralized, and dynamic budget reporting, accessible to operational teams.
  
• Reports created in minutes - down from several hours.
  

A co-built project with MeltOne, ensuring strong adoption and lasting value.

Modernizing financial performance

As its financial reporting tool became obsolete, EDHEC Business School needed a modern business planning solution to support its growth and better involve operational teams in budget processes.

Until then, budgeting and scenario planning were entirely managed in Excel, posing challenges with data reliability and consolidation.

EDHEC selected Pigment based on several key factors: the platform’s intuitive design, its ability to adapt quickly to organizational changes, and its active user community. 

The support of implementation partner MeltOne also played a crucial role, offering deep business expertise and a strong understanding of EDHEC’s specific needs.

EDHEC’s experience highlights a challenge many finance teams face: moving away from rigid, spreadsheet-based processes toward a more fluid, collaborative way of working. Creating this kind of alignment between finance and operational teams requires not just the right tool, but the right approach to planning and execution.

To explore how organizations can design FP&A processes that feel more seamless, adaptive, and connected, read our article on how to execute effortless flow in FP&A processes.

Co-building for long-term autonomy

The project was built collaboratively between EDHEC, MeltOne, and Pigment.

Initially launched with key users in Lucie’s team, the platform quickly expanded to more than 180 users, including 60 contributors who now input budgets, forecasts, and run simulations directly in Pigment.

Teams are now more involved and work closer together both on budget planning and reporting.

Building the future of performance

Today, EDHEC conducts all its financial planning and management in Pigment—a single, unified platform that brings together performance, agility, and collaboration.

And they’re just getting started.

EDHEC’s journey shows what’s possible when FP&A teams work from a single source of truth, where budgeting, forecasting, and reporting are no longer siloed, but fully connected and accessible to everyone involved. As adoption grows and teams become more autonomous, the impact goes far beyond efficiency, enabling better decisions at every level of the organization.

To dive deeper into how FP&A teams can structure budgeting, forecasting, and reporting within a unified framework, watch our webinar on budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for FP&A teams.