Your business changes every day. Your financial outlook should too.
Sebastian brings together accounting, financial plans, and business data to show where your company is heading, not just where it stood at the last close.
See what is changing, understand the impact, and make decisions while there is still time to act.
Cloud infrastructure is $200K above forecast
Higher inference consumption since 4 Oct explains $150K and revised provider rates $50K. $30K is incurred but not yet in the ledger, so an accrual is drafted for Tomás.
AWS usage
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FP&A model v1By the time finance has the numbers, the business has already moved on.
A contract gets signed. A hiring plan changes. A vendor increases prices. Customer usage rises.
These decisions affect revenue, costs, and cash flow long before they appear in the closed books. Yet finance still spends much of its time reconciling systems, updating spreadsheets, and explaining what happened last month.
Sebastian helps finance get ahead of those changes, instead of catching up to them.
Know where the quarter is heading. Not just where it stands.
Bring posted actuals together with current business activity to maintain a more complete financial outlook throughout the month.
As contracts, headcount, spending, and operational drivers change, Sebastian identifies their financial impact and shows what is different from the last forecast.
See the change. Understand the driver. Update the plan.
$1.33M is posted. The rest is what the business has already committed to, plus Sebastian’s projection for the remaining twelve days.
Do not just explain the variance. Do something about it.
When costs rise or revenue falls behind plan, Sebastian helps finance investigate the drivers, evaluate alternatives, and bring the right decisions to the business.
Most of the extra cloud spend is the new batch workload. What if we cap it from November?
Approved. Move batch workloads to reserved capacity now, and renegotiate the usage tier at the March renewal.
Finance becomes a better partner to the business teams.
Your forecast and your financials should tell the same story.
Financial plans reflect what the business expects. Accounting records what has been recognized. Too often, the two are maintained separately, and reconciling them takes days.
Sebastian connects the underlying business activity to both views. Forecasts can reflect new information before close, while accounting confirms what belongs in the books.
One connected financial picture, with actuals, estimates, and forecasts clearly distinguished.
Less time preparing the close. More confidence in the numbers.
Sebastian helps accounting teams match transactions, prepare accruals, investigate discrepancies, and reconcile balances.
Every proposed adjustment includes the supporting calculation and source evidence. Your team reviews and approves before anything is posted.
- Invoice matching
- Accrual preparation
- Account reconciliations
- Close management
11 of 31 tasks done before period end
Different seats. One picture of the business.
The CFO, the planning team, and the accounting team each see the same figures, with the detail their own work needs.
Keep the systems you trust. Get more from the data inside them.
Your ERP remains the system of record. Your planning platform remains where approved budgets and forecasts live.
Sebastian connects to the systems your business already runs on: ERP and accounting, planning, CRM, data warehouses, contracts and documents, email and chat, banking and payments. Finance sees what has changed and what it means, in one place.
Proposed cloud expense accrual
AWS usage through 19 October comes to $440,000 at the current provider rates. $410,000 is posted in the ledger. The $30,000 difference has been incurred and is not yet recorded, so it belongs in October under the accrual policy.
AWS usage reportNetSuite GL entriesPolicy §4.2
Every number has a source. Every change has a history.
Finance needs more than a plausible answer.
Sebastian connects financial results to their underlying records, calculations, and assumptions, so your team can understand how a number was derived, what changed, and who approved it.
The speed of automation, with financial controls that remain in human hands.