Client
Sky
Industry
Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment
Primary Goal
Financial Planning and Analysis
Technology
Anaplan
MAKE PLANNING CONNECTED
Sky serves more than 20 million customers across its TV, broadband, mobile and voice services. To support a business of this scale, finance teams need fast access to accurate insights and reliable forecasts. Working with KPMG and Anaplan, Sky transformed its Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes, replacing disconnected spreadsheets with a single source of truth that enables smarter planning, improved forecasting and more confident decision-making.
150+
Spreadsheets retired
6
Countries connected through a unified planning approach
MAKE COMPLEXITY SIMPLE
Transforming FP&A with a single source of truth
- Before
- During
- After
MAKE FINANCE FLOW
From spreadsheets to powerful analysis
Sky’s financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes relied on hundreds of spreadsheets, across many business units and six different geographies. Resulting in a significant amount of manual updating and process that was time consuming and meant having one, real time, version of the truth very difficult.
Sky needed a better way to do FP&A. Sky needed a tech solution to provide fast accurate reporting and forecasting across its growing complexity, while remaining flexible, scalable, and powerful.
MAKE FORECASTS SMARTER
Turning complexity into real-time insight
At KPMG, our people have extensive experience in addressing complex client challenges like the one faced by Sky. Working together with Sky we were able to bring together our wealth of knowledge to define their vision and business case to implement the right technology solution, Anaplan.
Anaplan is a cloud-based platform that allows users to create and share dynamic forecasting models and dashboards. Its ability to handle large data volumes and complex calculations, coupled with seamless integrations with existing systems made it, an ideal solution for Sky’s challenge.
So how do you implement an organisational wide change, across six different countries, as well as bringing the variety of FP&A teams on the journey to the new state of operations?
MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
From manual reporting to strategic decision-making
In phase one Anaplan has given Sky a single source of information for its FP&A data, metrics and KPI’s, retiring over 150 spreadsheets. With a complete modernisation of their FP&A process from reporting to planning, it has significantly reduced administrative tasks for the finance team. Allowing them to invest their time in strategic, value adding work.
Looking to the future, KPMG will begin to build automation into Sky’s future forecasting models and processes, helping Sky to continually bring to life their ‘Believe in Better’ vision for the future.
How we're making the difference
We helped the University of Hull transition from 17 operating systems to just one instance of Workday. But this transformation was about much more than replacing legacy technology. Its given teams across HR, finance, payroll and procurement easier access to data, simpler processes and a more connected way of working.
What's making the difference is the combination of the university's ambition, Workday's technology and KPMG's expertise. Together, we helped create one place for data, processes and people.
The result is a more efficient organisation, with reduced annual system costs, better access to data and a platform that supports the university’s plans for the future.
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