Skyline Analytics is a complete custom FP&A solution combining tools, technology, and talent that augments and extends the capabilities of your existing platforms.
You want to feel secure that you have the right data intelligence so you can make the right decisions for your organization. We work with you to build the right solution customized to your company’s specific needs and goals.
Skyline Analytics’ solution provides a comprehensive digest of your business in role-based, bespoke reporting and dashboards that best serve you and your executive team. Our methodology ensures data integrity, supporting transparency with your key constituencies.
With Skyline Analytics, you get mission-critical insights in real-time to support smarter, more adaptive business decisions, which strengthens your organization’s competitive advantage.
TESTIMONIALS
Skyline Analytics has been instrumental in the analysis of our limited time offers (LTOs) and marketing campaigns. We have reports galore and people that can pull data, but it is Skyline’s ability to read, understand, and interpret data through a critical FP&A lens that has allowed us to see the true incremental impact of our various marketing initiatives. Skyline is able to see, translate, and effectively communicate back the “story” behind the data, which is an invaluable resource when each analysis is highly customized with many variables at play. We greatly value their insight and it has helped drive decision making around the organization as it relates to promotions and marketing.
Skyline Analytics is an integrated member of the iPic Finance & Accounting team providing a robust suite of FP&A and data analytics services, including cash flow forecasting and monitoring, intra-month and month-end variance analyses, annual budget and STRAT plans, process automation, and customized operational and financial dashboard building. Their work is the best I’ve seen, and I would recommend them to anyone looking to drive improved profitability through top-of-the-line FP&A expertise, data analytics, and visualization techniques.
Chris’ work is both cutting edge and super user-friendly. Through his combined expertise in FP&A and Power-BI dashboard building, he brings real-time business analytics and profit-driving insights direct to the fingertips of those in your organization that need it most.
Managing Director, Restaurant Investments
Chris is a former colleague of mine, where he was responsible for providing best-in-class FP&A and data analytics support. He is passionate about business analytics and data-driven decision making. His company, Skyline Analytics, does cutting-edge work in the areas of data analytics and custom dashboard building, providing insights across a diverse range of industries. His work is outstanding, and I highly recommend him to any leader who wants to build business intelligence solutions and solve problems.”
Chief people officer
Skyline Analytics labor optimization is the state-of-the-art. They represent the leading edge of what is possible is terms of continuously leveraging data from multiple-systems to forecast optimal labor usage, help operators pivot in real-time to enhance intraday and intraweek performance, and provide automated daily, weekly, and monthly feedback. Their systems carefully balance labor optimization with the preservation of customer experience with profit maximization as the goal. They have helped us take what was already a “Cadillac” of a labor optimization process and turn it into a “Ferrari.”
We engaged Skyline Analytics to automate the production of our monthly- and quarter-end stakeholders reporting packages. We originally assumed this was not possible given the reporting platforms being used and the number of custom calculations required, but Skyline made it all happened. Overall, Skyline took a process that would typically take us weeks (and would inevitably turned in late) into something we didn’t have to think about anymore. The Skyline packages were delivered consistently, accurately, and on time every period, helping improve stakeholder relations and freeing our internal teams to focus on other items. We appreciate Skyline because they are the solution you might not realize is out there and could be the answer to that annoying problem or process that is bogging you down or simply not getting done.
After looking high and low, across platforms, disciplines, and products, Skyline Analytics was a highly welcomed relationship. They provided smart, FP&A-driven reporting that was 100% customizable to our particular needs and goals – their reporting is like no other and precisely what we needed! I just wish we found them sooner; one of the best kept secrets in the FP&A consulting space. It didn’t matter what we asked them to do, the answer was always “yes” and they made it happen.
Chris and Skyline have been instrumental in the financial modeling and strategic planning here at CloneMe. Given our cutting-edge technology and revolutionary approach to the AI space, we needed a FP&A partner that was on par in terms of cutting-edge capabilities. Chris has been a guiding force in our discussions with investors and pivots as quickly as we do, which is just about every day! There is nothing like watching Chris do scenario analysis on the fly, making changes before our eyes, and giving us answers in real time as last minute meetings and presentations arise. His professionalism is unparalleled and we are lucky to have him as part of our organization.
After 10+ years in business in what is an ever-increasingly competitive industry, we realized we needed help on our labor utilization from an expert who would consider both our unique concept (vegetarian tacos) and operating structure (hub-and-spoke). Skyline Analytics literally came to the rescue overnight, deploying customized dashboards and daily automated reports specific to each location. Over time, it is very easy for store-level operators to incrementally run heavier and heavier labor, losing sight of an optimal labor model, which makes internal benchmarking alone an ineffective means of “sharpening the pencil.” Skyline Analytics brings their extensive industry and client experience to each engagement to develop a customized model for each client. They utilize a bottoms-up approach to ensure labor is optimized to what is actually happening on the floor of each location (transactions, units/sold, time-of-day) versus trying to just optimize to what has happened in the past or at other locations. Restaurants have a lot of commonalities, but factoring in the differences is what counts when it comes to something as important as labor utilization.
While we were building out our FP&A function, Chris was instrumental in helping to set the right foundation. He delivered robust tools and templates, including a detailed financial model with dynamic scenario analysis capabilities, a month-end reporting package with built-in variance and R&O insights, and served as a mentor to existing staff – all within the condensed timeline we required.
DID YOU KNOW?
1) Data scientists spend 60% of their time on cleaning, organizing, and manipulating data in order to prepare it for analysis
2) According to IBM estimates, 88% of all data is “dark,” meaning it is collected but sitting around unused. With the Internet of Things adding billions of devices each year, that percentage is expected to increase to 97% in 2020.
3) According to research from Forrester, “insight-driven” organizations are sustaining an average of more than 30% growth annually, eight times faster than global GDP.
Source: Insight-First Innovation: A Methodical Approach to Building Tomorrow Today, BDO Report, 2019
EXAMPLE DASHBOARDS
Labor Analytics
Labor is the largest controllable cost in many businesses. Enhanced analytics and monitoring can improve margins by several hundred basis points.
Channel Analytics
Understanding overall trends and relationships between revenue centers, along with associated margins, can provide insights and guidance around resource allocation and improve gross profit.
Capacity
Understanding business capacity, occupancy, and utilization rates can assist with balancing workloads and decisions regarding when to hire or expand.
Customers
Customer experience and satisfaction are key to a successful business. Learn about your customers and their preferences, hone your offering, and watch your topline revenue grow.
Sales Pipeline
Monitoring your sales funnel or pipeline is critical to ensuring the right amount of work is there at the right time with an appropriately matched set of available resources.
Employees
Employees are the backbone of your business. Identifying your over- and under-performers can identify best practices, training opportunities, and lead to an overall increase in both customer and employee satisfaction.