Case Study: The Football Association achieves streamlined financial planning with Bedford Consulting and Anaplan

The FA scores financial planning goals

The Football Association (The FA) worked with Bedford Consulting to improve financial planning and reporting across a complex organisation. The finance team at Wembley was struggling with cumbersome Excel spreadsheets, inconsistent remote-team reporting, manual reconciliations, and the need to automate data feeds from its Great Plains finance system.

Bedford Consulting implemented an Anaplan-based planning solution to centralise budget submissions, streamline financial reporting, and support revenue, cost, staff, and group planning. The result was a cloud-based, connected planning process that gave The FA confidence in its data, reduced spreadsheet dependency and errors, and delivered a build in months rather than the years often associated with traditional EPM implementations.

The Football Association

John Williams

Group FP&A Manager