Budgeting & Planning
Replace spreadsheet-driven cycles with Workday planning that improves agility, governance, and confidence without overwhelming lean teams.
Problems We Solve
Budgets stitched together across departments leave finance teams chasing numbers, especially when staff bandwidth is already limited.
Manual consolidation stretches every cycle and leaves little time for analysis.
Personnel planning sits apart from the operating budget, so changes ripple slowly.
Testing options takes days of rework instead of minutes.
Agency and board reporting depends on fragile, time-consuming spreadsheets.
What Porterhouse SLED Delivers
Designed for SLED budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and workforce planning. Replace outdated tools with planning that fits public sector constraints.
Led by John McGrath, a former Budget Director with deep practitioner experience inside public sector and higher education finance organizations.
Built for Your Segment
Plan fast and stay accountable. Agile forecasting and workforce scenario modeling for finance teams with broad responsibility and constant scrutiny. Common wins: quick-start operating and workforce budgets, better visibility across departments, and faster pivots without burning out the team.
Budget alignment that supports the mission. Unify planning across academic and administrative units with tuition, workforce, and grant-aware planning. Common wins: tuition and workforce modeling, multi-scenario planning, and grant visibility tied to compliance.
Planning built to defend rate decisions. Scenario planning and long-range capital forecasting for regulatory-driven environments where small adjustments can have a large revenue impact.
Why Porterhouse SLED
Planning built around how SLED budgets really work, not generic templates.
Practical delivery for budget-conscious organizations.
A planning foundation that can extend into accounting when you're ready.
Schedule a conversation to see what planning-led transformation looks like in your environment.
