For CFOs

Know whether your strategic investment is generating return

StrategyWorks gives CFOs financial visibility across the strategic portfolio, budget vs actual, forecast, initiative performance and financial risk, all connected to the objectives that justify the spend.

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Strategic investment is significant. Visibility into it should not require a spreadsheet exercise

Organisations invest substantial sums in strategic initiatives, programmes, technology, transformation, market entry. But the financial visibility into those investments is often poor. Budget and actuals sit in finance systems. Progress lives in project tools. Nobody holds both sets of data in one place, connected to the strategic objectives the investment is meant to serve.

StrategyWorks puts financial tracking, delivery progress and strategic objectives in the same platform, so you can see whether the money is working.

01

Portfolio financial visibility

Total strategic investment, budget vs actual, forecast variance and financial risk, aggregated across the full portfolio. No spreadsheet merges. No manual reconciliation from PMO to finance.

02

Investment connected to strategic objectives

Every programme and project links to the strategic objective it is meant to deliver. You can see the spend on each objective. And whether that objective is on track to generate the return that justified it.

03

Early financial risk signals

Financial risks at programme level are visible before they become material variances. Forecast problems surface early enough to act on. Not in the month-end pack when options are already constrained.

Financial tracking

Budget, forecast and actual. Live at every level

StrategyWorks tracks financials at portfolio, programme and project level. Budget, forecast and actual update as delivery teams report. No manual aggregation, no waiting for the PMO to compile a pack.

The executive financial view is a live roll-up of the project-level data. What the CFO sees reflects what is actually happening, not what was true at the last reporting date.

Strategic portfolio, financial summary
Total budget
£8.4m
Actual YTD
£5.1m
Variance
-3.2%
Financial risk flagged
US Market Entry: forecast overrun +£340k. Escalated for review
Investment rationale

See the strategic case alongside the financial performance

Every programme in StrategyWorks links to the strategic objective that justified the investment. The CFO can see, for any investment, which objective it is meant to deliver, what progress that objective has made, and whether the spend is generating strategic return.

When an initiative is underperforming strategically, the financial case for continuing it is visible alongside the delivery data. Funding decisions are better-informed.

Investment by strategic objective
Grow recurring revenue £3.2m
74% on track
Expand into North America £2.8m
38% on track
Reduce cost base £2.4m
88% on track

See whether the strategic investment is working

Book a demo to see portfolio financial tracking, investment-to-objective mapping and live variance in one platform.

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