Finance AI Skill

Variance Analysis

Perform automated variance analysis comparing actuals to budget and forecast across departments, categories, and cost centers. Use when analyzing monthly P&L variances, identifying spend drivers, generating variance explanations, tracking KPIs, flagging budget overruns, or producing executive variance commentary. Triggers on phrases like "variance report", "budget vs actual", "P&L analysis", "spend variance", "explain variance", "KPI dashboard", "budget overrun", "monthly variance", "financial performance".