Webinar recording |

Mastering council budgets: Agility, oversight, and collaboration with Workday Adaptive Planning

With partner: Workday

Authors and contributors: Workday
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Overview

Now that year-end is finally in the rearview mirror, it’s the perfect time to rethink your budget process.

In local government, the annual budgeting process is famously complex – requiring endless preparation, rigorous authorisations, and strict controls to align with your corporate plan and deliver key services. To ensure robust stewardship, councils need more than disjointed spreadsheets. You need a dynamic framework that drives cross-council collaboration, guarantees year-round financial oversight, and provides the agility to shift resources toward urgent priorities while mitigating risk.

Join us for an engaging webinar with Naresh Patel to discover how Workday Adaptive Planning can transform your financial operations from a static, manual chore into a strategic, value-driving engine.

Agenda

In this session, we will showcase how Workday enables you to:

  • Streamline Budgeting & Monitoring: Establish a clearly defined, end-to-end process for setting and tracking budgets seamlessly throughout the financial year.
  • Empower Budget Managers: Equip your team with intuitive submission workflows, offering engaging insights into current commitments and potential risks.
  • Reclaim Lost Time: Automate monthly data collection with built-in process tracking, smart validations, and real-time dashboards.
  • Ditch the Spreadsheets: Gain instant, online visibility into the critical reporting data required to make key decisions – freeing your team from the chaos of offline, siloed systems.
  • Eliminate Duplication: Say goodbye to manual re-keying. Easily interrogate transaction-level detail to monitor expenditure, assess outcomes, and ensure true value for money.
  • Optimise Resource Allocation: Strategically plan for the essential resources required to manage critical frontline services and day-to-day council operations.

Take a breath after year-end and join the conversation on how to make your next budget cycle your most efficient one yet.