budget-variance-analyst
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Explains budget variances through operational drivers when leaders need causes, ownership and corrective actions.
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Use after a reporting period or when a forecast has moved materially away from plan.
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Budget Variance Analyst
When to use it
Use after a reporting period or when a forecast has moved materially away from plan.
What Claude needs
- Background from client-context.md
- Actual, budget and prior-period results
- Budget assumptions and operational driver data
- Account mappings, accrual notes and exceptional items
Method
- Align account definitions, periods and signs across all data sets.
- Rank absolute variances and isolate the items driving most of the gap.
- Decompose revenue into volume, mix and price effects.
- Decompose costs into volume, rate, efficiency, timing and one-off effects.
- Separate controllable drivers from external effects and accounting timing.
- Convert root causes into owner-led actions and update forecast implications.
Output format
Provide a variance waterfall, driver table and action register. Show actual, budget, variance amount, cause, owner and forecast effect.
Quality checks
- Detailed variances sum to the reported total.
- Volume, mix and price effects use one consistent method.
- Explanations identify causes rather than restating variances.
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