Centage Helps Scale Workforce Planning for 2,400 Employees—Without Losing Control
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Scaling Workforce Planning for 2,400
Employees—Without Losing Control
About the Brand
When you’re managing 2,400 employees, $380 million in operating expenses, and 100+ cost centers, budgeting isn’t just a finance function—it’s an operational necessity.
At Medical Card System, Inc. (MCS), the small-but-mighty finance team led by Monica Fernos, VP of Budget & Financial Analysis, makes it all run. With complex fringe benefits, multiple lines of business, and high expectations from leadership, they needed a system that could handle scale and precision—without overwhelming the team.
The Challenge
MCS had outgrown Excel years ago. With dozens of departments and reporting requirements from multiple business units, they needed:
- A repeatable process for building and updating the annual budget
- A way to accurately calculate and forecast fringe benefits across thousands of employees
- Monthly reporting tools that could handle hundreds of GL accounts, rolled up cleanly by product, cost center, and department
Their ERP (Dynamics GP) handled the accounting. But for budgeting and planning, MCS turned to Centage.
The Centage Solution
Using Centage, MCS built a system tailored to how they work:
- Fringe benefit calculations automated across the entire workforce—no more manual entry
- Template-driven budgeting process, mapped by account, product, department, and cost center
- Seamless monthly actuals import for variance analysis and board-ready reports
- Trusted workflows and tools the entire team knows inside and out
And when questions pop up? Their Advisor, Patricia, is just an email away.
“We budget for over 40 departments. Four different product lines. And we’ve got it down to a system now. We’ve learned how to manage the data to and from Centage—it’s working.”
What It Means for MCS
Finance at MCS isn’t chasing spreadsheets anymore. They’re focused on delivering insight—fast.
- Reports that leadership trusts, delivered monthly
- Full visibility into labor costs and departmental spending
- A planning process that’s built for complexity—but feels simple
"Our CFO and CEO like the reports they get every month. The level of granularity we’re able to give them—it’s exactly what they need"
— Monica Fernos, VP of Budget & Financial Analysis, MCS
Centage delivers the full FP&A toolkit—budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and scenario planning—purpose-built to handle your most complex cost center: people.
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Centage Helps Scale Workforce Planning for 2,400 Employees—Without Losing Control
