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Feature: workforce planning

Plan around your most important resource: Your people

Your people are your most valuable resource, and the personnel budget is one of the most important parts of your financial plan. It can also be the most complicated if you have a large workforce, employees who split time between different locations/departments, or a workforce split between full-time, part-time, and seasonal employees. Centage makes budgeting and forecasting at the individual employee level not only possible, but painless.

Get out of maintenance mode

Excel works well for FP&A – until it doesn’t. When the next formula breaks, you’re spending time fixing mistakes instead of strategically planning.

Streamlined workforce budgeting

Quickly build a detailed workforce plan and evaluate your company’s ability to meet its goals. Understand how each department and employee contributes to your bottom line. Built-in logic tracks overtime, premium time, and shift differentials according to your work and pay cycles.

Forecast salary increases on the fly

Centage enables fine-grained personnel planning, down to individual health insurance plans. Budget merit increases based on different geo locations and times of year, or see the impact of an annual salary increase in seconds without fear of formula errors.

"There are so many different variables to account for when it comes to our personnel planning, especially with health insurance… Depending on the employee, whether they are married, single, married with children and so on — all those tables are built in Centage so I can accurately select which option the employee has and it calculates the associated cost. It’s great because it makes our budgeting much easier and more accurate."

Jenny Barker

Senior Budget Manager, Housing Authority of Snohomish County

This government housing authority leverages Centage's workforce planning capabilities to optimize its budgeting process. Centage automates personnel-related projections, offering transaction-level detail and ensuring precise adjustments to revenues, expenses, and the bottom line. Granular personnel planning and drill-down capabilities contribute to more accurate and efficient budgeting, providing this housing authority with detailed insights for strategic workforce planning.

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“Our operators and Finance alike are so excited to have the ability to see very quickly what was budgeted and then to have that detail feed into our financial reports – it’s extremely helpful – especially when it comes to our personnel planning.”

Mareva Page

CFO, Equitas Health

This nonprofit community healthcare system with over 500 employees across 21 offices uses Centage to manage complex workforce planning challenges. Centage's intuitive interface and seamless integration with their accounting software, Abila, streamlines personnel-related expenses and projections. Spread methods let the finance team apply individual spreads depending on the specific employee and budget down to the employee level with precise detail.

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“When I first started, the Excel worksheets that my predecessors built were really robust, however, the complexities of budgeting and planning for our staffing were not something I wanted to tackle in Excel.”

Renee Sherman

CFO, The Wildlife Gallery

This nonprofit streamlined its complex personnel budgeting and forecasting processes by integrating Centage with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Seamless integration significantly reduced the time spent on data reconciliation, enabling Finance to make budget revisions in Centage in just 20 minutes, compared to 5 or 6 hours in Excel. Detailed personnel forecasting not only enhances scenario planning and hiring decisions, but also ensures confidence in reporting accurate numbers to leadership.

Read more in the case study

“There are so many different variables to account for when it comes to our personnel planning, especially with health insurance… Depending on the employee, whether they are married, single, married with children and so on — all those tables are built in Centage so I can accurately select which option the employee has and it calculates the associated cost. It’s great because it makes our budgeting much easier and more accurate.”

Jenny Barker

Senior Budget Manager, Housing Authority of Snohomish County

This government housing authority leverages Centage's workforce planning capabilities to optimize its budgeting process. Centage automates personnel-related projections, offering transaction-level detail and ensuring precise adjustments to revenues, expenses, and the bottom line. Granular personnel planning and drill-down capabilities contribute to more accurate and efficient budgeting, providing this housing authority with detailed insights for strategic workforce planning.

Read more in the case study