Today’s finance teams face constant pressure to plan faster, forecast smarter, and adapt quickly. At Budgeting Solutions, we bring together intelligent business budgeting tools and hands-on professional financial planning services to help you take control of performance.
We don’t just install software, we deliver clarity, confidence, and capability. Our consultants combine deep financial knowledge with IBM Planning Analytics, creating agile planning systems that give finance leaders real-time insight and the flexibility to act fast.
Why Businesses Are Rethinking Budgeting and Planning
If you’re still relying on spreadsheets, you already know how limiting they can be. Manual entry, version chaos, and scattered data make it hard to trust the numbers, let alone plan for change.
Legacy systems slow decision-making and make it nearly impossible to see the full financial picture. When the market moves, your plans need to move with it. That’s why more finance teams are adopting integrated business budgeting tools that automate data collection, connect teams, and support continuous planning and live forecasting.
The result? More time for analysis, fewer errors, and the confidence to build strategy on reliable, up-to-date numbers.
What Modern Business Budgeting Tools Deliver
The right business budgeting tools and financial planning software transform planning from a once-a-year task into an ongoing, intelligent process.
Core features include
- Multi-dimensional models that show performance by product, project, region, or department.
- Driver-based planning built around real business inputs, utilisation, headcount, revenue targets, and cost drivers.
- Automated workflows that eliminate repetitive tasks and streamline approvals.
- Collaborative planning that connects finance, sales, HR, and operations in one shared system.
These capabilities allow teams to manage performance proactively, not reactively.
Business Services: From Static Budgets to Rolling Forecasts
Traditional annual budgets age quickly. Rolling forecasts allow continuous updates, so plans evolve as new information comes in. This creates agility and ensures decisions are based on what’s happening right nom, not what was expected months ago.
Built on IBM Planning Analytics
Powered by the TM1 engine, IBM Planning Analytics combines the flexibility of Excel with the control of an enterprise platform. It’s fast, scalable, and packed with analytics that help finance teams explore every “what-if” scenario with confidence.
Register for a demonstration to learn more about IBM Planning Analytics implementation.
Case Study
Gowling WLG, a large international legal firm, overcame the limitations of manual, spreadsheet-based planning by implementing a TM1 workflow. This solution provides near real-time insight into work-in-progress (WIP), integrated directly with cash flow and balance sheets. The firm eliminated 20 years of manual reconciliation, cutting the time for complex analyses from a day to minutes, thus fueling faster, more informed strategic planning.
Professional Financial Planning Services Built Around You
1. Advisory and Discovery
We begin by understanding how your business works — the challenges, data sources, and success measures. From there, we design a planning framework that aligns with your strategy.
2. Implementation and Integration
Our consultants configure and deploy your chosen solution, integrating finance, operational, and HR data to create a single, consistent view of performance.
3. Managed Service and Support
With our Managed Service, we take care of day-to-day system upkeep. That means updates, optimisation, and proactive monitoring, freeing your team to focus on insight, not administration.
4. Training and Enablement
We ensure your finance team feels confident using every feature, with best-practice sessions and hands-on training.
Forecasting Profitability and Controlling Costs
Once connected, your data becomes a strategic asset.
- Driver-based forecasting links assumptions directly to business activity, like consultant utilisation or billable hours.
- Integrated planning brings together finance, operations, HR, and sales for a single version of the truth.
- Granular visibility by client, service line, or region reveals growth opportunities.
- Scenario modelling instantly shows how changes to pricing, headcount, or costs affect your results.
With these insights, finance teams spend less time collecting data and more time driving profitability.
Who We Work With
We partner with mid-market and enterprise organisations across professional and business services, including legal, consulting, marketing, outsourcing, and more.
Typical challenges we solve
- Manual, spreadsheet-heavy budgeting processes
- Inconsistent data and reporting
- Slow consolidation and approval cycles
- Difficulty adapting to fast-changing conditions
Our budgeting advisory services help you modernise your planning process, build accurate rolling forecasts, and free your team from low-value manual work.
Explore our wider industry planning expertise to see how we support sectors from hospitality to transport.
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enquiries@budgetingsolutions.co.uk
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