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Vareto Overview

What is Vareto?

Vareto is the modern, intuitive FP&A platform for strategic finance and business teams to plan, forecast, and report in one source of truth. Vareto is built for mid-market, high-growth, and enterprise teams and is designed to be flexible, customizable, and scalable as business needs evolve. ✅ Get time to value in weeks. Vareto offers in-house, dedicated Customer Growth Managers (with FP&A experience) to ensure your implementation and onboarding success. ✅ Make planning painless. Transform your planning process with an intuitive tool that makes building models easy and intuitive. No more stale, disconnected spreadsheets with inaccurate data. Keep your plans up-to-date and track progress towards goals with the latest data pulled in directly from your ERP, CRM, HRIS, and other business systems. ✅ Collaborate easily with business partners directly in Vareto. Gather input on plans from stakeholders with comments and @mentions, and annotate charts, graphs, and reports to provide context. ✅ Free up time for high-value work. Automate all of your executive and departmental reporting, from monthly budgets vs. actual variance analysis to real-time performance monitoring. Vareto automatically pulls in the latest data to keep reports updated. ✅ Build trust and alignment. Give your business partners self-serve access to reports, with the ability to instantly click into transaction-level detail. Use granular access permissions to control who sees what. ✅ Create and customize reports the way you want. Easily build any report you want in Vareto without SQL or code. It takes minutes to configure and update custom metrics and visualizations on your own, without the need for an outside consultant.

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Product Description

Vareto is the all-in-one strategic finance platform for finance and business teams to plan, forecast, and report in real-time. No more stale, disconnected spreadsheets. Keep your plans and forecasts up-to-date with the latest actuals. Enjoy the spreadsheet-like flexibility and formulas you love, plus superhero features created specifically for finance teams. From OPEX to Headcount, Vareto’s granular permissions enable you to work together with your business partners while maintaining full visibility and control. Vareto also provides reporting and dashboards for forward-looking teams. No more pulling data from different systems into an Excel spreadsheet. Vareto automates all of your key reporting workflows. Drill down to the lowest level to understand variance analysis, then use annotations to summarize the results. Make changes on the fly to metrics and visualizations. Vareto is backed by Google Ventures (GV), Menlo Ventures, FOG Ventures, and over 60 CFOs and other executives from companies such as Facebook, Salesforce, Asana, Splunk, Affirm, and many others.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Vareto brings everything you need for planning, forecasting, and reporting in one intuitive source of truth for finance and business users alike.

Vareto is built for mid-market, high-growth, and enterprise teams and is designed to be flexible, customizable, and scalable as businesses grow and needs evolve.


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Vareto
Year Founded
2020
HQ Location
Mountain View, CA
Twitter
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34 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Vareto is a modern financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform designed to help businesses streamline their planning, forecasting, and reporting processes. With intuitive tools for creating dynamic financial models, tracking key performance metrics, and generating insights, Vareto empowers finance teams to make data-driven decisions. The platform integrates seamlessly with various data sources and fosters collaboration across teams, enabling organizations to optimize their financial operations and drive strategic growth.


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Larissa C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"User-friendly, real-time financial analytics solution"
It is clear and concise with a good view of the data and the ability to make any dashboard visible on an external link has allowed us to use it for...
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Kylee S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Credible solution for solidly managed financial data analysis"
The visualization of data is a great feature as well as the financial reporting. Forbye, the customer service that I can ask for help anytime.
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"Customizable for the specific needs of our organization"
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Vareto Demo - Vareto: Reporting for forward-looking teams
No more pulling data from different systems into an Excel spreadsheet. Vareto automates all of your key reporting workflows. Drill down to the lowest level to understand variance analysis, then use annotations to summarize the results. Make changes on the fly to metrics and visualizations.
Vareto Demo - Vareto: Planning Platform
No more stale, disconnected spreadsheets. Keep your plans and forecasts up-to-date with the latest actuals. Enjoy the spreadsheet-like flexibility and formulas you love, plus superhero features created specifically for finance teams. From OPEX to Headcount, Vareto’s granular permissions enable yo...
Vareto Demo - Vareto: Data Analysis
Instantly drill down to the transaction level to understand variance analysis. Filter, sort, and export data.
Vareto Demo - Vareto: Modeling
Vareto combines the magic of Excel with the automation and error-free environment of a planning platform. Use your favorite formulas and keyboard shortcuts in a beautiful, elegant interface. Add structure where you want it, and go freestyle where you don't.
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Mason B.
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Senior Analyst, FP&A
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

Automated updates for all consolidated view financial reports.

Proactive, responsive, solution oriented customer growth managers that go above and beyond to maximize functionality.

Automoated budget vs. actual reporting with strong collaboration tools with business partners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

The financial planning module does an excellent job of pulling in actual data from prior periods that can be referenced to plan future periods, but can sometimes slow down when the workbooks become large. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Historical actuals sync directly from our accounting and CRM systems, so our plans are always based on the most up-to-date actual data. Before Vareto, we were using spreadsheets, and hardcoded historical values were vercy cumbersome to maintain and update as new periods closed, or as prior periods were modified. Vareto solves that problem.

Fast BVA reporting, and slick communication tools on the face of the reporting dashboards to collaborate with business partners. Before Vareto, all of our financial data was only accessible in the accounting system. Business partners didn't have good visibility into their department financials. Vareto allows us to give our business partners, spend owners, and department leaders useful visibility into the company's financials. This increases their awareness and accountability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vareto?

1.) Vareto has been excellent with building out vendor level BvA's

2.) Vareto's customer support team has been so incredibly helpful and a joy to work with. The team is professional, responsive, motivated, and intelligent. (shoutout to Dvisha and Vince!) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

It is a young software, so there is room to improve when it comes to formatting dashboards and the roll-up infrastructure of "Plans" or "Budgets". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest use case for us is Vareto's ability to allow us to see vendor-level BvA's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael M.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

Industry leading next generational FP&A tool. Simiplicity in report creation. Excellent customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

Delay timeline in the roll out of Vareto 2.0, which will fix a few convenience bugs in the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's saved us time and manual effort in managing our department and company level BvA process on a monthly basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jess C.
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Director of Accounting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

Integrations to QBO - syncs easily and notifications tell us if something needs to be mapped

Divison by department and type - we have created our custom views to align with our internal and external reporting requirements, making quarter end reporting a breeze

Ability to tag other users on specific lines - similar to a highly advanced google sheets

Ease of use for internal department leaders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

As a smaller company, we are only utilizing some of the functionality of Vareto. Right now it is meeting our business needs, but I am looking forward to continuing to explore the functionality available as we scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Period over period analysis - how did we change from month to month, by category and by department. There are so many ways to slice data which was a big limitation with QuickBooks and Excel.

Speed of decision making

Reducing redundancies

Allowing for greater time to be spent on other business needs

Reduced turnaround time for custom reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MZ
Finance Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

- Support team has been very helpful throughout the whole process

- Product is constantly improving and rolling out more features

- For a small company, we can use Vareto to do budget, forecast and monthly actual comparison instead of using Gsheet or excel

- Have stakeholder in the system to show variance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

Nothing. The team has been accommodating during our implementation and has continued to improve the product daily. We are looking forward to the new features that Vareto will roll out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a remote-first company, we were previously using Gsheet to build out monthly template which requires a lot of time to create the model and load monthly actuals, without the live connection to QBO to capture all the changes live.

Vareto was able to help us have live data, consistent format, and host budget, forecast and actual all in one place with all the visualization that we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vareto?

The first thing I would call out is Vareto's implementation and customer support team. They are extremely available and helpful, and have worked with us through a variety of niche cases to get our data and performance metrics set up to be easily reported on. The team is also very communicative regarding suggestions, potential issues, and future product roadmap/improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

The planning side is usable but sometimes feels a bit clunky in the way plans must be set up so that they feed over to the reporting side properly, though I know improving that interface is something Vareto is actively working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vareto makes our reporting processes so much more streamlined and allows for us to provide easily accessible financial information and operational metrics to our business partners and leadership. The tool provides much in the way of time savings and is definitely worth the initial time investment in implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris W.
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Head of Finance
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

Budget to actuals are seamless and save countless hours moving from sheets. The collaboration functionality with stakeholders is second to none. Great visualization and customization functionality, and we can get data in from any data source making it a powerful Finance BI tool. It's built with SaaS companies in mind. The onboarding and CS team are top notch for implementation and beyond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

They are still a young product so not everything works as smoothly as it will in the future. However, they are extremely responsive to customer requests and really "get" what Finance teams will need and are building towards that. The planning functionality is still a bit immature so it takes a little extra work to set up, but the majority of our modeling is now in Vareto (revenue aside - which is expected). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed of month end close. We no longer spend time building or linking spreadsheets or running Netsuite JE reports/pivot tables, and instead spend our time analyzing data and working with our business stakeholders. The ability to share customized dashboards with our business partners also provides a level of transparency and data that was lacking or not possible without ad hoc analysis in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramesh S.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

Easy to use interface for finance and non finance users.

Vareto allows us to quickly zoom in on areas that need attention and highlight it for the business teams to take control and manage their budgets.

For the finance team, the really thoughtful and smooth integration (we are using Netsuite) makes it automatic to present BVAs without any additional work after our close.

We have received nothing but great service from their account team from the moment we signed and they have helped in every aspect of the tool's implementation and roll out to the business teams.

Their product is ever evolving and improving and new features added at breakneck speed. Great team and wonderful company to partner with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

Nothing at the moment. Keep up the good work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Budgeting and forecasting and visualizing business performance against targets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stefano B.
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Strategic Finance Intern
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Vareto?

What I find most helpful about Vareto is how easy it makes reporting for strategic finance teams. You can view all financial data in a user-friendly, completely customizable environment. You also get great personalized care from the Vareto team. They are there to help you with any issues or concerns you might have promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

I feel that Vareto does what I need it to do for now. But, as the company grows, I would love to have a Vareto partner give tutorials to business partners who are new to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vareto gives our team more time to analyze financial data by exponentially reducing the manual work we did before. It reduces repetitive work and allows us to gain insights that would otherwise be very hard to get without Vareto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Vareto?

- Visualizations within Vareto are great - it's very easy to set up tables or charts that update each month automatically without a lot of effort from users

- It's easy to share financials and visuals across business counterparts and they can access their functional financials independently at any time in an easy-to-use format

- Support and customer success has been excellent in helping us get onboarded and use the product well

- Drill down ability into vendors and chart of accounts is particularly helpful to understand causes of variance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vareto?

Vareto is still a young company and the product is evolving and improving. The team is very responsive and open to feedback. Two things that would be great from our perspective - 1. Weekly reports (current lowest denomination of time is a month), 2.Greater ability to build and edits models directly within Vareto (know that the team is working on this). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Vareto solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vareto is significantly reducing the time it takes to perform FP&A activities at month-end. The visualizations and data-sharing functionalities have been helped us cut time to build BVAs for the business at month-end and to better understand the nuance of our financials quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.