How does Pigment's budgeting tool improve financial planning and analysis?

Pigment's budgeting tool improves financial planning and analysis by automating manual tasks, enabling cross-functional collaboration, simplifying complex models for easier re-forecasting, and shortening budget planning and forecasting cycles.

What features should I look for in a budgeting and forecasting tool?

Key features to look for include data integrations with core systems, scenario planning capabilities, granular access controls, rolling forecast functionality, variance analysis, and AI-powered predictions.

What types of financial forecasts can I create with Pigment?

With Pigment, you can create financial forecasts including revenue forecasts, expense forecasts, cash flow projections, and more. The flexible forecasting tools allow you to model different scenarios using flexible assumptions and key business drivers to analyze their impact on your budget.

How does AI help in financial forecasting?

Pigment's AI-powered Predictions feature helps in financial forecasting by analyzing historical data patterns and providing intelligent forecasting recommendations to improve accuracy and speed.

What KPIs best summarize the health of our forecasting process?

Core KPIs include forecast production and refresh speed (days from period close to updated outlook), stakeholder contribution reliability (on-time submission rates), projection accuracy at different horizons (1-, 3-, or 6-month revenue MAPE), scenario analysis speed, and frequency of unexpected outcomes like unplanned cash shortfalls.

What is rolling forecasting and how does it improve financial planning?

Rolling forecasting keeps your outlook continuously updated by extending the forecast window each period. Instead of planning once a year, teams refresh assumptions frequently to maintain a 12- or 18-month view, helping organizations respond faster to market shifts and make more confident decisions based on recent data.

How do Pigment's integrations support more accurate and timely financial forecasting?

Pigment connects directly to core systems including ERP and accounting tools (NetSuite, SAP, Sage Intacct), CRM platforms (Salesforce), HR systems (Workday, HiBob), and data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery). This removes manual data collection, reduces errors, and provides a single source of truth for fast, reliable forecasting.

Can large enterprises use Pigment for budget, reporting, and financial forecasting?

Yes, large enterprises including Keolis, Fivetran, Vinted, Figma, HomeServe, Supercell, and Carta use Pigment for budget planning, reporting, and financial forecasting at scale.

Budgeting & Financial Forecasting Tool for Businesses

Budget planning and financial forecasting could be so much easier

Year-end budget planning and forecasting can be a daunting task for FP&A teams. The story is the same every year:

Manual data collection and consolidation

Lack of cross-functional alignment

Complex models that make re-forecasting difficult

Lengthy and time-consuming budget planning and forecasting cycles

A more coherent way to plan and forecast

Watch the 2 minute demo below to see budgeting and forecasting in Pigment.

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Budget planning and forecasting can prove to be an incredibly time consuming task for finance teams, but we've designed the pigment platform to remove a lot of the friction from the process. In this view, we've looking at our actuals versus forecast for our fiscal year twenty twenty three annual operating plan. In this table, you can see our detailed GL accounts along the side, our actuals, our forecast, our variance, and then the reason for that variance. The information is being pulled into a waterfall diagram up at the top here. Additionally, you can add additional commentary here. Down below here, we're able to see vendor level detail. We've budgeted at a vendor level, so we're now able to look at the specific variances as they relate to each vendor. Here, we're looking at the software maintenance GL line and we can see that we're actually under budget. I know that this is because there was no vendor spend because of shifting timing, So I'm now going to come back up and create a new category and say it's due to timing. As I create that, we'll see the new category appear in the waterfall here. And in the additional commentary column, I'll add a note to explain. When working within the pigment platform, collaboration becomes much easier. We can see here that our group medical insurance is over budget. So I'm going to tag HR. This will send a notification either via email or slack to our HR team who'll be able to respond in this thread so I'm able to provide more detailed commentary. Next, let's look at a cash flow statement. It's important to note that everything you're seeing is completely customizable in a cash flow statement that's very helpful since you might want to look at different reasonings for your cash flowing in and out. Here we set it up to have our a r balances, our new billings as total cash, our regular payroll commissions, bonus, other payroll and purchase order cash payments. You can add or remove categories as you see fit, and you can also set up KPI. For example, as we have here, projected year end cash. As you can see, the pigment platform makes it easy to bring all your data into one place, collaborate with other departments and make better decisions.

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Surface actionable insights

Run variance analysis on the same platform you build your budget. Understand and flag the reasons behind identified gaps (budget overspend or budget pulled in, exceptional events, etc).

Act and react at speed

Increase your forecasting frequency and shorten your planning cycle. Effortlessly update rolling forecasts with a single click to accelerate your organization’s response time to both internal and external events.

Working together made better

Make budget planning and forecasting a truly collaborative process by connecting teams and their data sets in a central location.

Key features for effective budget planning & financial forecasting

Scenario planning on the fly

Run what-if scenarios in minutes to assess the key drivers that affect your business.

Granular access rights

Pigment offers fine-grained security controls to let you configure what an individual or a group of users can do, see, or modify on any board, metric, dimension or cell.

Actuals and forecast

Instantly add a new actual and forecast period everywhere in your model.

Budget Planning & Forecasting in Pigment

Budget Planning & Forecasting for Retail in Pigment

Budget planning and financial forecasting could be so much easier