CFO Reporting Cockpit

See the Whole Picture of Finance on One Screen: The CFO Reporting Cockpit

The CFO Reporting Cockpit is a management dashboard built on SAP Analytics Cloud that lets you monitor cash position, profitability, budget variances, debt, collection performance and financial KPIs on a single screen. It gives senior management mobile-friendly, sustainable, decision-oriented financial visibility.

What Is It?

The CFO Reporting Cockpit is a financial management dashboard built on SAP Analytics Cloud that lets the CFO and senior management track cash, profitability, budget vs. actual, debt, receivables, collection performance and core financial KPIs on a single screen.

Problem Space

Do these questions sound familiar?

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Are management reports still prepared in Excel and manual presentations?

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Are cash, profitability, budget and KPI data scattered across different systems?

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Can the CFO and senior management not access the current financial position from mobile devices?

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Are budget variances and risk indicators noticed too late?

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Does the finance team spend its time gathering data instead of analysing it when preparing reports?

The Montag Approach

At Montag, we model the financial indicators the CFO needs for decision-making by business unit, company code and management level.

We analyse your existing SAP environment and turn the data into meaningful, readable, actionable dashboards on SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAP components used in this solution
SAP Analytics Cloud SAP S/4HANA Finance SAP BW/4HANA SAP BPC / Embedded Planning SAP Group Reporting SAP Fiori SAP Cash Management SAP Treasury and Risk Management
Scope / What's Included

What does this package include?

Consolidated Financial Dashboard on SAP Analytics Cloud

Cash, profitability, budget, debt, receivables and financial KPIs are brought together on a single management screen in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Financial KPI Cards with Drill-Down

The CFO and senior management can drill from KPI cards down to company, period, business unit, customer group or account level.

Budget vs. Actual and Variance Analysis

Budget, actual and forecast data are compared so that variances become visible early.

Mobile- and Tablet-Friendly Management Reporting

The CFO Reporting Cockpit is designed for mobile and tablet access, giving management teams financial visibility from anywhere.

Benefits

What do you gain with this package?

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Management visibility of the whole picture of finance on a single screen

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Less manual report preparation and presentation work

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Early detection of budget variances and risk indicators

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Fast decision support for the CFO, CEO and senior management

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Standardisation of financial data coming from different systems

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Mobile-friendly, sustainable and up-to-date management reporting

Use Cases

Who is it for?

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Monthly board and executive committee reporting

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Real-time financial performance tracking for the CFO, CEO and finance directors

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Visibility of cash position, debt and liquidity

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Budget vs. actual and forecast meetings

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Consolidated financial visibility for group companies

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Organisations moving from Excel reporting to a dashboard structure on SAP Analytics Cloud

Our Methodology

We follow the same success model in every project.

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We Listen

We analyse which indicators the CFO, finance, treasury, accounting and controlling teams want to track, and how.

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We Model

We structure the KPI tree, data sources, authorisation model and dashboard design according to your organisation's management model.

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We Build

We develop the dashboards on SAP Analytics Cloud, integrate them with SAP data sources and complete user testing.

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We Stay With You

After go-live we develop the KPI sets, report screens and new management needs together.

Why Montag?

Why Choose Montag for the CFO Reporting Cockpit?

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A Reporting Team That Knows the Financial Process

We design the CFO cockpit not merely as a technical BI screen, but around the topics at the centre of the CFO's agenda: cash management, profitability, budget control, debt and risk tracking.

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A Sustainable, SAP-Centred Architecture

We build a sustainable reporting architecture compatible with SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Finance and planning systems.

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Usable Design for Senior Management

We design dashboards not just to display data, but to be read quickly, to show variances and to prompt action.

Frequently Asked Questions

What people ask

The CFO Reporting Cockpit is an SAP-based management dashboard on which senior management monitors cash, profitability, budget, debt, receivables and financial KPIs on a single screen.

This package is built on SAP Analytics Cloud. The data sources, however, can be fed from SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BPC, Excel or other enterprise systems.

Yes. The CFO Reporting Cockpit can be designed to be mobile- and tablet-friendly, so management teams can access financial indicators during meetings, while travelling or outside the office.

The KPI set is defined by the organisation's priorities. Typical indicators include cash position, net debt, EBITDA and profitability metrics, budget vs. actual variances, receivables ageing, collection performance, working capital, and FX and interest rate risk indicators.

The timeline depends on the readiness of the data sources, the KPI scope, the number of companies and the level of dashboard detail. A clear scope and project plan are produced after the preliminary analysis.

Get started

Manage financial performance, cash position and critical KPIs from a single screen with the CFO Reporting Cockpit.

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