Revenue forecasting & variance

From forecast movement to a clear business story.

I built forecasting and revenue-tracking workflows to make recurring analysis faster, more consistent, and easier to explain. This interactive recreation shows how I compare plan, actuals, and forecast while isolating the drivers behind the variance.

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All customers, periods, and financial values in this public demo are fictional.

Recorded workflow

Watch the analysis build.

The recording runs the same fictional scenario shown below and populates each period, KPI, and variance driver as the analysis completes.

Behind the project

Financial analysis translated into an interactive model.

The real problem

Plan, actual, and forecast results are more useful when the movement can be separated into understandable business drivers instead of reported as one unexplained variance.

What I built

I built forecasting and variance models that organize financial data, calculate performance changes, and isolate volume, price, mix, and material-cost drivers for decision support.

Why this version is different

The interactive model uses fictional periods, customers, and values. It recreates the analytical approach without publishing employer forecasts, pricing, margins, or operating results.

Technical focus

Forecast structure, variance logic, driver decomposition, scenario analysis, data validation, and decision-ready reporting.

Interactive analysis

FY26 Revenue Forecast

Adjust the commercial assumptions, then run the model.

Forecast revenue-Full-year outlook
Variance to plan-Forecast vs. operating plan
Gross margin-Modeled after cost movement
Forecast accuracy-Actual periods vs. prior forecast

Period detail

Plan, actual, and forecast

Ready to run

StatusPeriodPlanActual / forecastVarianceGM
Run the analysis to populate the forecast.