Case Study: Ventura Bus Lines achieves streamlined budgeting and continuous forecasting with Workday Adaptive Planning

Ventura Bus Lines Takes the Right Route to Strategic Finance

Ventura Bus Lines, Australia’s largest privately owned bus company founded in 1924, operates across Melbourne with over 1,500 employees and more than 32 million passenger journeys a year. Rapid growth through acquisitions left finance managing multiple entity accounts and a tangle of spreadsheets, making budgeting tedious, month‑end consolidation slow and forecasting unreliable.

Ventura implemented Workday Adaptive Planning to consolidate data, streamline budgeting and enable continuous, model‑based forecasting and what‑if analysis. Automated reporting and Report Builder/OfficeConnect produced real‑time board reports in minutes, cut the annual budget cycle from two months to two weeks, saved days of monthly reporting, and freed finance to deliver faster strategic insights and better decision‑making.

Ventura Bus Lines

Scott Clapton

Senior Management Accountant