Case Study: Kindred Group achieves faster, more accurate budgeting and agile workforce planning with Workday Adaptive Planning

Kindred Group manages business complexity with cloud planning

Kindred Group, one of the world’s leading online gambling operators serving ~26 million customers across 11 brands and processing massive transaction volumes, faced growing complexity from rapid growth, acquisitions, and strict regulation. Relying on spreadsheets for multi‑layered budgeting and workforce planning became slow and error‑prone — a problem highlighted when a deleted budget sheet erased three weeks of work — so the finance team needed a more reliable, scalable planning solution.

By deploying Workday Adaptive Planning’s Business Planning Cloud, Kindred automated and centralized planning so users can input data simultaneously, speed up budget and forecast cycles, and run robust what‑if models. The result: faster, more accurate budgets and forecasts, improved agility to handle acquisitions and regulatory change, effective workforce and headcount planning (including multi‑location tax modeling), and stronger decision‑support through scenario analysis.

Kindred Group

Sean Zurawski

Senior Financial Analyst