Case Study: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society achieves faster, more transparent financial planning to better fund lifesaving research with Workday Adaptive Planning

Transforming Financial Planning and Analysis to Better Fund Lifesaving Research

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the largest voluntary health organization focused on blood cancers and a funder of more than $1 billion in research and support services, needed to modernize its financial planning to better support its mission. Lengthy budgeting and forecasting cycles left little time for analysis and limited organization-wide collaboration, transparency, and accountability across its 64 U.S. and Canada chapters.

LLS implemented a cloud-based FP&A solution (integrated with its new ERP) and rolled it out to more than 400 managers and employees, enabling rolling monthly forecasts, daily transactional visibility, and one-click reporting. The result was greater participation and ownership of corporate performance, improved accuracy and transparency of chapter cash flow, campaign returns and donor metrics, faster decision-making informed by cash-flow trajectories, and stronger multiyear planning and strategic evaluation.

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Nathan Taylor

Vice President, FP&A