FP&ALive
#01
PE Portfolio Health Dashboard
Real-time EBITDA bridge, cash runway, and KPI tracker built for PE-backed boards. Replaces manual monthly pack production with live reporting.
Impact
2 days → 2 hours
Submitted By
Brad Zapalac
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Real-time EBITDA bridge, cash runway, and KPI tracker built for PE-backed boards. Replaces manual monthly pack production with live reporting.
Automated close calendar with task owners, milestone tracking, and escalation alerts. Compresses the reporting window by 50%.
Rolling cash forecast with scenario toggles for base, upside, and downside cases. Built for PE sponsor weekly liquidity reviews.
Inputs actuals vs budget data and generates board-ready narrative commentary in seconds. Eliminates the manual reporting loop.
Interactive waterfall chart showing movement from prior period to current EBITDA. Designed for sell-side storytelling and audit prep.
Extracts key terms, payment schedules, penalty triggers, and renewal dates from vendor contracts and invoices. Eliminates missed obligations and auto-renewal traps.
Assembles a fully formatted monthly board deck — KPIs, variance narrative, cash story, risk register — from raw GL and operating data.
Classifies and de-duplicates AP transactions across GL accounts, flags duplicate vendors and maverick spend, and recommends consolidation savings.
Predicts logo and revenue churn from CRM signals, usage data, and AR aging — drives bookings and retention assumptions in the financial model.
Models DSO/DPO/DIO levers across customers and vendors, recommending payment-term and inventory changes that release trapped cash.
Reads customer contracts and applies ASC 606 logic — performance obligations, SSP allocation, and schedule build — with an audit trail.
Reviews every T&E and P-Card transaction against policy, auto-approves clean items, and routes only true exceptions for human review.
Ingests a data room and produces a Quality of Earnings summary, working capital peg, customer concentration analysis, and risk flag log.
Mines win/loss, deal desk, and CRM data to surface margin-eroding discount patterns and recommends rep- and segment-level guardrails.
Samples populations, performs walkthrough testing of key controls, and drafts workpapers for internal audit and external auditor review.
Pulls trial balance, computes book/tax differences, builds current and deferred tax provisions, and generates the rate reconciliation footnote.
Models headcount plans by department, syncs offer letters from the ATS, and reforecasts fully-loaded comp expense in real time.
Generates monthly compliance certificates, covenant calculations, and borrowing base reports from the GL and AR sub-ledger.
Continuously scores customer credit using payment history, public filings, and macro signals — adjusts credit limits before write-offs occur.
Standardizes capex business cases, tracks committed vs actual spend, and back-tests realized ROI against the original underwrite.
Drafts the monthly sponsor letter — KPI commentary, wins/losses, pipeline, cash, and asks — from the same data feeding the board pack.
Synthesizes street models, prior transcripts, and recent KPIs to draft likely analyst questions and crisp response talking points.
Matches intercompany AR/AP across entities, identifies FX and timing differences, and proposes elimination entries during consolidation.
Scores every JE on risk — round-dollar amounts, off-hours posting, unusual users — and routes high-risk entries to the controller queue.
Natural-language scenario builder: 'cut marketing 15% and slip product launch a quarter' → instant P&L, cash, and covenant impact.
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