The Future of Centage: Building for Seamless Finance

In finance, precision is table stakes. But precision without execution speed? That’s risk. And tools that can’t flex with your business as it scales? That’s failure waiting to happen.

I joined Centage to help build the kind of budgeting and planning software that many teams wish they had in prior roles. Centage focuses not only on being technically accurate but also on being practically usable. The goal is to ensure that the right people receive the right data at the right time, without the need to log tickets or chase updates.

As the new CTO, I’m excited to share what we’re building and how it will reshape FP&A execution for the teams that rely on us.

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Collaboration That Actually Moves Budgets Forward

A modern finance team can’t operate on static spreadsheets and status meetings. Budgeting is cross-functional. That means your tools should make it easy to delegate, follow up, and update all within a shared system of record.

We’re rolling out collaborative worksheet views that let you save and share filtered slices of a budget with specific contributors. For example, a finance manager can filter the Operating Expenses worksheet down to just the Marketing department and send a direct link to the person responsible.

For example, that contributor lands on a clean view showing only their data, and sees a comment like:

“@user1 Can you please enter your advertising expenses for the December campaign?”

The contributor can reply, tag colleagues, or even attach backup docs—without ever leaving the worksheet.

This feature doesn’t just streamline collaboration; it directly improves actual vs budget variance reports by increasing accountability and accuracy at the source.

This is what FP&A best practices should look like: contextual, traceable, and fast.

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Self-Serve Integrations, Built for the Office of the CFO

Waiting on IT to move data between systems is a bottleneck. That’s why we’re releasing self-serve payroll integrations starting with vendors like BambooHR, that let you pull in real-time personnel expenses and headcount data with just a few clicks.

No CSV exports. No stale reports. Just up-to-date workforce planning and budgeting right where you need it.

We’re also building integrations with CRM platforms like Salesforce and HubSpot to connect operational and financial data in one model. That means your budget vs actuals report won’t just show what happened—it’ll show why.

By combining financial and non-financial drivers, finance leaders can perform deeper actual vs budget analysis, and tie revenue variance directly to funnel performance or staffing changes.

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Designed to Scale Without the Bloat

Too many planning tools break down as soon as the business gets complex. We’re building Centage to scale with you—from multi-scenario modeling to entity-level permissions, and support for consolidated income statements across departments and business units.

Whether you’re modeling OpEx, P&L statements, or planning capital expenses, our platform ensures your budget comparison process stays accurate, fast, and flexible.

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From Backward-Looking to Forward-Led

We’re not just building a better report. We’re shifting how finance leaders operate, moving from reactive reporting to predictive insight.

Our roadmap includes real-time dashboards that surface trends early and AI-enhanced forecasting that flags anomalies before they impact your targets. Want a better budget vs actual report? It’s one that doesn’t just track gaps, it prevents them.

This shift to operational foresight isn’t optional. It’s what modern finance teams demand.

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Built for the Finance Leader Who’s Done Waiting

Centage isn’t just evolving—we’re accelerating.

We’re focused on helping FP&A teams:

• Collaborate faster with the people who own the numbers
• Integrate systems without tech debt or dependency
• Scale cleanly across departments and entities
• Move from insight to action—without delay
  
  

Whether you're managing a consolidated income statement or tracking actual vs budget reports for department-level spend, Centage is becoming the central hub for all of it.

This is the future we’re building for. If your team is ready to operate at a higher level of visibility and velocity, we’re ready to get you there. Talk to our team today.

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Jacek Materna

CTO, Centage