Build top-flight planning capabilities
Drive growth and save money with processes and systems that connect planning and execution and provide you full visibility into your business operations.
Empowering Teams, Driving Business Value
I founded Openvale Group in 2019. After spending years working with FP&A teams as a technology consultant, management consultant, customer success partner, and FP&A leader, I built a strong understanding of the power and value that planning technology can provide to organizations, as well as the pain that it can bring if not deployed or utilized well.
With OVG, I seek to bring together the best of all of my experiences into one integrated package to help clients maximize the benefits from their planning technology and teams. The best planning teams are collaborative, multidisciplinary, and holistic in their approach, and we strive to embody those same principles with OVG.
Our singular goal is for our clients to effectively leverage technology to drive real value and play a strategic, value-driving, and fulfilling role within their organizations.
Trusted by companies across a variety of industries
Purpose-built to address the multifaceted challenges of planning.
Dual Threat
We bring both functional and technical knowledge, and every person on our team both understands business and knows how to build solutions.
Multidisciplinary
Nobody knows your business better than you. While our experience spans functions, industries, and technologies, we prioritize learning about you.
Client-centric
We always put you first, whether it’s sharing our knowledge with the team, negotiating on your behalf, or providing informed recommendations.
Our Services
Our solutions are holistic in nature, delivering value to you, your business partners, and leadership.
Form a solid foundation with your data
It’s impossible to plan without good data, and no organization starts with perfect data.
We help you to source and connect the data that’s most important for planning, e.g., customers, employees, financials, and ensure that they accurate and granular enough for planning.
Where needed, we’ll adapt your business processes to collect and tag data the right way.
Finally, we’ll link your models together to keep everything together and equip your team with tools to keep them running smoothly.
Drive top-line value with a customer-centric approach
The connection between Marketing, Sales, and FP&A is critical to planning, but is often not well established, even between the GTM teams themselves.
We are experienced working across these teams to connect sales processes such as territory, quota, and sales forecasting with financial outcomes such as revenue, incentive compensation, and customer billing.
We strive to enable & to tell the financial story based on customer-level context, so you can get to the ‘Why’ without going to other teams and provide your GTM partners the insights they need to operate.
Realize bottom-line value with smart spend management
It’s hard to set and maintain a budget without effective management and reporting of costs at the source.
We work to provide visibility into spend from budgeting to vendor invoicing and payment, allowing you to track and manage expenses at a granular level or automate with a driver-based approach.
By combining budgeting with spend management best practices, you can help your business partners drive savings with more strategic sourcing, tail spend optimization, and suppler management.
Optimize your most valuable resource: your people
People are the biggest source of value and one of the biggest sources of investment for most businesses.
Similar to expenses, our approach provides you with end-to-end visibility into employee and contractor movements from initial budget request to employment.
Plan employee-related expenses at any granularity, from salaries to benefits and payroll taxes.
In addition to expenses, understand productivity and capacity of teams and where there is opportunity for investment or savings.
Paint a business-driven view of your financials
Bring your entire operational and financial story together with 3-statement modeling, combining business forecasts with finance assumptions.
Conduct forecasting activities, annual planning, target-setting, long-range and scenario planning with consistent processes and data.
Set both external guidance and internal operating goals that align with your business strategy.
Produce management reporting that ties across the organization to enable informed decision-making and cross-functional coordination.
Connect to the business with familiar tools
Spreadsheets are more powerful than ever with cloud collaboration, more computing power, business workflows, scripting, and AI capabilities.
Instead of ‘killing’ spreadsheets, embrace their power effectively on their own or in conjunction with a planning solution.
Leverage spreadsheets to share information with the business, create predictive models, manage datasets, or conduct analysis.
Engage your business partners and save money by using tools that they already know.
We are versed in a variety of software solutions to suit your needs.
Spreadsheet Programming
Spreadsheets have never been more powerful, with cloud collaboration, scripting, workflows, and infinite flexibility. We use spreadsheets to extend planning collaboration, not burden it.
Low-Code Solutions
Low-code platforms such as Power Apps and FreeAgent offer a fast and low-cost option to build bespoke solutions without major investment in pre-configured software.
Planning Solutions
We are experienced with some of the most popular planning software solutions, including Anaplan, Oracle EPM, Planful, Abacum, and Causal.
Operational Systems
We have strong working knowledge of related systems, including the following:
ERP: NetSuite, Quickbooks
HRIS: ADP, Workday, Bamboo
CRM: Salesforce, HubSpot
ETL: Informatica, Boomi
Our Approach
Our business value engineering approach combines management consulting, technology consulting, and operational execution.
Delivering you more value in less time and with lower costs.
We work with clients of all shapes and sizes!
If you have a planning challenge, we can help you solve it or point you to someone who can. Our clients range from small businesses with less than $10M in annual revenue up to global enterprises. We work with both privately-held and public companies and work across a number of industry verticals. We bring a wide range of experience but take the time to learn your specific business.
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