📈 CFO Dashboards & Executive Analytics
The Root Cause: The Reporting Gap
CFOs and finance leaders often face a paradox: they sit atop mountains of financial data but lack timely, actionable insights. The typical reporting workflow involves:
- Finance teams spending 80% of their time gathering and reconciling data
- Only 20% of time spent on actual analysis and strategic thinking
- Board-ready reports that are 2-3 weeks old by the time they're presented
- Different departments presenting conflicting numbers due to inconsistent definitions
How We Solve This with Cloud Technologies
1. Single Source of Financial Truth
We build a Financial Data Hub that consolidates:
- General Ledger data from ERP systems
- Accounts Receivable and Payable aging
- Cash flow actuals and projections
- Revenue recognition and deferred revenue
- Headcount and compensation data from HRIS
2. Executive Dashboard Suite
Our CFO dashboard framework includes:
Cash Flow Command Center
- 13-week rolling cash forecast updated daily
- Cash conversion cycle metrics with trend analysis
- Working capital optimization recommendations
- Covenant compliance monitoring
Profitability Analytics
- Contribution margin analysis by product, customer, and geography
- Cost allocation and activity-based costing views
- Gross margin waterfall charts with variance explanations
- Customer lifetime value (CLV) and customer acquisition cost (CAC) tracking
Revenue Intelligence
- Pipeline-to-revenue conversion analytics
- Revenue recognition schedules and ASC 606 compliance
- Cohort analysis and net revenue retention
- Bookings, billings, and collections (BBC) dashboard
3. Self-Service Financial Analytics
We empower finance business partners with:
- Natural language queries — "Show me EBITDA by region for Q4 vs Q3"
- Automated narrative generation — AI writes variance commentary
- Mobile-first design — Key metrics accessible on any device
- Embedded alerts — Push notifications for threshold breaches
Technology Stack
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Data Platform | Snowflake / Databricks |
| ETL/ELT | dbt + Fivetran |
| Visualization | Power BI Premium / Tableau |
| ML/AI | Azure OpenAI + Python |
| Orchestration | Apache Airflow |
| Governance | Collibra / Atlan |
Key Outcomes
- ✅ Monthly close reduced from 15 days to 5 days
- ✅ Real-time P&L available at any point in the fiscal period
- ✅ 80% reduction in ad-hoc report requests to the finance team
- ✅ Board-ready materials generated automatically with AI narrative