How Comet's two-person finance team gained 2 days a week on FP&A
The challenge
Comet runs finance with a lean team: François-Guillaume Lutton, CFO, and Loubna Lemrabet, FP&A Manager. Planning and reporting lived in Google Sheets fed by manual NetSuite extracts, so every analysis meant extracting, rebuilding and pivoting by hand. At the same time, Comet set out to double the number of consultants on assignment without growing its teams at the same pace. Finance had to keep up.
The team wanted to:
- Cut the cost of producing analyses
- Improve data accuracy
- Gain flexibility in modeling scenarios and variances
The solution
Onboarding was almost immediate. The team expected two weeks; within a few hours, NetSuite, the HR tool and the Google Sheets holding budget, actuals and reforecast were connected, and part of the old setup was already replaced. Dashboards are now produced automatically.
Above all, Outline keeps the full picture over time: actuals next to the original budget, the landing and the reforecast, with every assumption, decision and trade-off traceable.
For quick questions, a general-purpose AI assistant does the job. But when I want my actuals next to the original budget, the landing and the reforecast, and to trace which assumptions we made and how they evolved, that's where Outline comes in.
The results
- 2 days per week of productivity gained
- Dashboards fully automated
- A complete audit trail of assumptions, decisions and trade-offs
- Faster, more accurate and more reliable analyses
Outline has been a real help. It's basically me and our FP&A manager, and having a tool like Outline has made all the difference. I sincerely recommend it.
