Planning model design
Dimensions, drivers and versions designed with finance, so budgets and forecasts can be built and compared each cycle.
Industry context
EPM, FP&A and corporate performance in retail and e-commerce
We build planning and consolidation models that finance can run each cycle without rebuilding spreadsheets.
Performance management platforms replace the spreadsheets behind budgeting, forecasting and consolidation. Most of the work is in the model itself: the dimensions, drivers and approval steps finance will rely on each cycle, and the data feeds from the ledger.
Retailers trade on thin margins, with peaks around Ramadan, Eid and White Friday and customers who move between app, website and store in a single purchase. Merchandising, store operations and digital teams each own part of that journey, so we plan changes around the trading calendar. Groups with entities in the UAE and Saudi Arabia often consolidate in more than one currency, and corporate tax in the UAE and zakat in Saudi Arabia shape parts of the model.
After stabilisation we hand over to your teams or keep running the service with you.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
How the work is organised
From design to stable operation, with the evidence commercial leadership, finance and the privacy office ask for.
Ledger and data feeds
Scheduled loads of actuals from your ERP and other sources, reconciled to the ledger.
Close and reporting
Consolidation, approval workflows and management reports set up around your reporting calendar.
Consumer and data rules
We design consent, returns and customer data handling around consumer protection rules and personal data law in each market, such as the UAE PDPL and the Saudi PDPL, with ZATCA e-invoicing requirements where Saudi sales are in scope.
Workforce and capital planning
Headcount, cost and capital plans linked to the financial plan, with drivers finance can explain.
Scenario modelling
Alternative scenarios built from the same model, so leadership compares options on consistent numbers.
Checks before you start
A planning programme is ready to start when finance agrees the planning structure and has a cycle in which to run the new model alongside the old one.
- Privacy has decided the consent model for customer data.
- Finance has agreed the planning dimensions and the reporting calendar the model must support.
- Finance has chosen the cycle in which the new model will run alongside the old one.
Plan EPM, FP&A and corporate performance in retail and e-commerce
Tell us where you are today and which dates matter. We will propose a first phase with scope, owners and an itemised quotation.