The Financial Planning Challenge
Financial planning is the heartbeat of FP&A - but in many companies, it’s broken. Annual plans take months,
budgets are outdated within weeks, and leadership is left steering the business with stale numbers.
Finance teams spend more time collecting and reconciling spreadsheets than actually planning, modeling, and advising. The result? Reactive decisions, slow pivots, and missed opportunities.
Who Needs This ?
Empowering finance leaders to plan, forecast, and pivot without friction.
CFOs and FP&A leaders frustrated by manual, Excel-only planning cycles
Growing companies moving beyond annual budgets to rolling forecasts
Businesses with complex drivers (multi-product, multi-entity, global)
Leadership teams needing agile scenario planning for market shifts
Typical Financial Planning Pain Points | The MCC+Vena Advantage |
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Why teams switch to MCC
Immediate Benefits
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Month-end close time reduced by 30–70%
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Audit-ready records with tracked approvals and changes'
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Increased accuracy and confidence in reported numbers
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Finance freed from chasing balances → more time for analysis
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Lower compliance risk and better stakeholder trust
If nothing changes
The Cost of Not Improving
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Longer close cycles → leadership operating on stale data
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Compliance risks with regulators, auditors, and investors
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Staff burnout from manual reconciliations and late nights at month-end
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Increased cost of audit due to missing trails and inconsistent processes
Proof From the Field
Arizona Cardinals
Sports & Entertainment
Built one central database for budgeting + reconciliations
“We’ve been able to produce the commission statements and that function used to take about 10 days. Now that function takes about four or five seconds.”
— Christine Harms, Controller, Arizona Cardinals
Tanger Outlets
Retail
Automated reconciliations
“The accelerated reporting of historical occupancy data has helped our CEO decide which outlet centers to allocate resources to more quickly.”
— Michelle Canada, Director of Financial Reporting, Tanger Outlets
Wells Fargo
Financial Services
Reconciliations ensured SEC compliance
“Dealing with more than 2,000 spreadsheets caused us a lot of anxiety … Vena’s audit trail was just what we needed to streamline this essential process.”
— Terry Hardy, SEC Reporting Manager, Wells Fargo
Capstone Energy
Energy
Close workflows fully automated
“Significant cost reduction by eliminating manual processes, and no risk to data integrity now that spreadsheets are digital.”
— Capstone Energy Team