Bridget

Variance Bridges & Driver Walks

Bridget turns close output into a clean story. It builds actuals vs plan vs prior bridges for revenue, margin, and EBITDA, quantifies the drivers (price, volume, mix, cost, and timing), and produces commentary that matches the math. Bridget does not “hand-wave” variances or bury the lead in spreadsheets—it makes movement explainable, comparable, and repeatable. Built to support judgment, not replace it: your team decides what matters, Bridget does the bridge work and keeps the narrative honest.

Primary Outputs

Typical deliverables

Revenue bridge (AOP/Forecast/Prior) with price, volume, mix, and timing attribution

Gross margin bridge with cost drivers: commodities, freight, packaging, labor, and yield

EBITDA walk with operating expense drivers and one-time normalization

Executive-ready commentary blocks that tie directly to quantified drivers

Variance root-cause prompts: what moved, where, and what’s likely structural vs. one-time

Standardized bridge tables by customer, brand, plant, channel, or cost bucket—same format every time

Core Capabilities

What it does

Builds repeatable bridges for revenue, margin, and EBITDA across plan, forecast, and prior

Attributes variances to price, volume, mix, cost, and timing with consistent rules

Normalizes one-time items so performance is comparable period to period

Standardizes commentary so insights are crisp and the story matches the numbers

Flags “variance smells” (mix hiding price, timing hiding demand, costs hiding yield problems)

Outputs in management-ready formats that drop into MBR/QBR decks without rework

Operational Fit

How it’s used

Used By

FP&A, Finance Business Partners, Controllers, and functional owners in close and MBR cycles.

Used For

Monthly close readouts, performance reviews, board/investor packs, and consistent driver attribution.

Typical Questions

What actually drove the revenue and margin variance—price, volume, mix, or timing?
Which variances are structural vs. one-time, and what should we expect next month?
If we tell this story to leadership, will it reconcile to the bridge and the close?

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