Every FP&A team knows the grind. Budget season arrives, and your inbox floods with spreadsheets from every department. Versions multiply. Contributors send late updates. Consolidation becomes a manual war room. By the time your budget is finalized, the business has shifted, and you are already behind.
Manual budgeting is broken. It wastes time, invites errors, and leaves you making decisions on shaky ground. For professionals who are tired of version control chaos and endless reconciliations, OneStream offers a path forward. It transforms budgeting from a spreadsheet nightmare into a trusted, strategic process.
When every department builds its own budget in a different format, you end up with dozens of versions. Reconciling those, aligning assumptions, and fixing broken formulas become daily chores instead of occasional fixes.
FP&A teams spend more time chasing updates than analyzing results. Even small changes require rework across multiple files. The cycle repeats every month, quarter, and year.
Without a shared model, every department may use different growth rates, cost drivers, or headcount plans. That lack of alignment undermines forecast integrity and confidence in the numbers.
Markets change quickly, but manual processes make it nearly impossible to reforecast or run “what-if” scenarios fast enough. By the time new data is consolidated, leadership has already moved on.
Spreadsheets are error-prone. A single typo can cascade through an entire budget. When numbers don’t reconcile, FP&A teams lose valuable time verifying data instead of guiding decisions.
Manual budgeting feels familiar, but it comes at a high cost.
Missed opportunities: By the time the budget is locked, business conditions have changed.
Decision paralysis: Executives hesitate when data cannot be trusted.
Wasted talent: Skilled analysts are buried in consolidation tasks instead of driving strategy.
Eroded credibility: Repeated inaccuracies and delays undermine confidence in the finance function.
OneStream unifies budgeting, forecasting, and reporting in a single platform. For finance teams, it eliminates fragmentation, improves agility, and restores confidence in every number.
Actuals, budgets, and forecasts live in one connected environment. There is no need to reconcile multiple spreadsheets or re-key data. Everyone works from the same trusted source.
OneStream’s dimensional structure lets you build detailed department-level plans while maintaining a consistent corporate view. Data rolls up automatically, reducing manual consolidation and risk of error.
Instead of static templates, FP&A teams can use drivers to create dynamic, rolling forecasts. Running what-if scenarios takes minutes, not days, helping finance leaders respond faster when the business changes.
Built-in workflows manage submissions, approvals, and version tracking. You can see who changed what, when, and why. That transparency replaces the chaos of spreadsheet versioning.
Allocations, spreading, and variance analysis happen automatically. OneStream also supports AI-assisted forecasting for greater accuracy and transparency. The result is speed without losing control.
Implementing OneStream is only half the story. The difference comes from how it is delivered and adopted. Nova Advisory’s process ensures your budgeting transformation is lasting and measurable.
FP&A-centric scoping: We map your budgeting workflows, driver logic, KPIs, and version policies before implementation.
Tailored configuration: Data models, validations, workflows, and dashboards are built for your finance structure, not a generic template.
Adoption and training: Nova equips FP&A teams to take full ownership of their new environment.
Continuous optimization: Through SMART Managed Services, Nova Advisory provides proactive support and ongoing improvement so your platform always performs at its best.
With Nova Advisory’s guidance, FP&A teams spend less time fixing spreadsheets and more time leading strategy.
Budget cycles reduced from weeks to days
Real-time reforecasting and scenario modeling
Unified assumptions and consistent data
More time for analysis and strategic planning
Greater trust in every report and presentation
Manual budgeting will always hold finance back. With OneStream and Nova Advisory, FP&A teams can close the gap between planning and performance, and finally build the agility and confidence today’s business demands.