Planful Unveils Unprecedented Workforce Financial Planning and Analytics Capabilities with “Workforce Pro”

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 30, 2025 – Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, today announced Workforce Pro, a powerful enhancement to its trusted Planful for Workforce solution. Workforce Pro delivers deeper granularity, greater flexibility, and built-in automation, and empowers organizations to optimize workforce investments and drive stronger alignment between Finance, HR, and the business for faster, smarter decision-making.

Planful’s proven Workforce Planning solution already helps teams move faster with real-time forecasting, scenario modeling, and built-in automation. Workforce Pro takes these capabilities to the next level, delivering transformational advancements in insight, flexibility, and control. These powerful new capabilities empower Finance and HR to uncover meaningful cost savings, adapt with agility, and make more informed, strategic workforce decisions.

Now, with Workforce Pro, organizations gain access to a powerful set of advanced workforce planning capabilities:

• Granular Cost Transparency: Analyzes compensation trends and cost drivers, improving company-wide ability to precisely manage workforces to Plan.
• Detailed Analytics: Compares plan vs. actuals at the most granular compensation level, enabling high-frequency course correction against negative variances.
• Custom Compensation Logic: Handles bonuses, commissions, and the most complex pay structures with ease.
• Live Headcount Tracking: Monitor hires, exits, and role changes in real time.

“Workforce investments are not just costs, they’re decisions that shape the future of your business and are a highly impactful financial lever,” said Melissa Dreuth, Chief Customer & People Officer at Planful. “Finance and HR leaders today are under constant pressure; they’re being asked to partner more closely together to provide instant clarity on which workforce decisions accelerate growth, free up cash, and maximize profitability. Workforce Pro surfaces those financial levers clearly and immediately, giving teams more control and visibility into what matters most so they can perform rapid scenario analyses, increase planning frequency, and maximize impact and value every single day.”

With over 1,100 employees across eight international offices, Planful customer Statista requires scalable, data-driven tools to manage the complexity of global workforce planning. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data and delivers insights on over 80,000 topics to more than four million users each month. Petra Winkelmann, Team Lead, Controlling, said: “Planful lets us create and compare workforce scenarios in a single system. Generating reports now takes minutes instead of hours; that’s a significant time savings. Another major advantage with Planful is that everyone involved in the [workforce] planning process now can access the data they need.”

To see what’s possible with Planful, register for Planful Perform25 in Miami from May 12 – 15 and London from June 4 – 5.

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, and Zappos rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at planful.com.

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