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PERFORMANCE STEERING · BU FINANCE / BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

From review decks to a driver-to-action loop.

Today, business reviews produce decks and commitments dissolve in the follow-up. In Future Finance, driver signals are monitored continuously, exposure is routed to the owner who can move it, and every committed action is tracked to its outcome.
LEARNING RETURN 01 SIGNAL driver moves · segment KPI shifts 02 EXPOSURE P&L exposure · sized on the driver 03 CHOICE act {D} escalate {D} hold 04 OWNER ACTION BU {D} CS owner 05 OUTCOME did the number move? EVIDENCE GATE 06 · VALUE PROOF retention validated The governed loop, cast for this function – the same circuit as every Finance function, carrying pandl exposure risk instead of a report.
01 · THE TRANSFORMATION

From review decks to a driver-to-action loop.

TODAY
Review decks and follow-up emails.
Commitments lost between meetings.
Churn and contraction spotted in post-mortem.
Margin opportunities found after the quarter.
IN FUTURE FINANCE
Driver signals monitored continuously
P&L exposure sized and routed to owners automatically
Review packs prepared before the meeting {D} decisions queued
Every committed action tracked to its outcome
P&L EXPOSURE → ACTION ROUTE
02 · WHERE TO START – THE WORKFLOWS, RANKED

Five workflows. One operating pattern.

Every workflow in this function becomes the same governed loop – cast differently. Below, each one in full: what it becomes, who does what, what it needs, and where the human boundary sits.
RANKED BY · ownership (who holds the lever) · value (from this domain’s sizing) · autonomy ceiling (Tier 1 = human-only → Tier 4 = highest permitted autonomy) · control sensitivity · scope (core vs conditional)   weighting leans value + ownership
AGENTS prepare DETERMINISTIC SYSTEMS calculate HUMANS approve OWNERS execute FINANCE validates
1Tier 3 of 4
BU performance review
Review preparation becomes decision orchestration {D} BU finance surfaces the driver movements, routes exposure to owners, and arrives at the review with decisions queued.
Who does what
Agentsprepare the review pack; surface driver movement and exposure
Systemscalculate BU KPIs and variance
Humansdecide and commit
OwnersBU owners execute where the lever is theirs
Financetracks commitments to outcome
ARCHETYPE cadence-to-decisionCADENCE monthlyDATA BU KPIs · actionsSENSITIVITY medium
THE BOUNDARY · BU owners execute; Finance orchestrates the decision and validates, it does not run the business.
OWNERSHIP Finance co-governsVALUE High – feeds the sized poolAUTONOMY Tier 3 of 4CONTROL Medium sensitivitySCOPE Core
2Tier 4 of 4
Business action tracking
Insight becomes accountable action {D} every commitment from a review routed, tracked, and validated to outcome, closing the gap between what was decided and what happened.
Who does what
Agentsroute commitments and monitor status; summarize blockers
Systemstrack action status and SLAs
Financevalidates outcome {D} Finance validates, it does not execute
ARCHETYPE signal-to-actionCADENCE continuousDATA action logs · routingSENSITIVITY medium
THE BOUNDARY · Finance validates, it does not execute; owners remain accountable for the action.
OWNERSHIP Finance validatorVALUE High – closes the loopAUTONOMY Tier 4 of 4CONTROL Medium sensitivitySCOPE Core
3Tier 3 of 4
BU margin and productivity review
Margin review enters a governance cadence {D} margin and productivity opportunities surfaced, sized, and routed to the owners who execute them.
Who does what
Agentssurface margin opportunities with evidence
Systemscalculate margin and productivity metrics
Ownersexecute productivity actions
Financevalidates realized margin impact
ARCHETYPE cadence-to-decisionCADENCE monthly / quarterlyDATA margin data productsSENSITIVITY medium
THE BOUNDARY · owners execute productivity actions; Finance co-governs and validates the impact.
OWNERSHIP Finance co-governsVALUE Medium – margin disciplineAUTONOMY Tier 3 of 4CONTROL Medium sensitivitySCOPE Core
4Tier 2 of 4
BU investment business cases
Business cases become governed choice packets {D} investment options modeled consistently, with the decision kept with the executives who own it.
Who does what
Agentsassemble the business case with context
Systemsrun investment model calculations
Humansexecutives decide the investment
ARCHETYPE scenario-to-choiceCADENCE event-drivenDATA investment modelsSENSITIVITY medium
THE BOUNDARY · executives decide; Finance prepares the governed case, it does not approve capital.
OWNERSHIP Finance analystVALUE Medium – decision qualityAUTONOMY Tier 2 of 4CONTROL Medium sensitivitySCOPE Core
5Tier 2 of 4
KPI stewardship for BU metrics
Metric debates become owned definitions {D} BU metrics carry a certified definition and approved calculation, ending the three-versions-of-one-number problem.
ranked last: definitional governance, not a value pool.
Who does what
Agentsidentify metric conflicts across sources
Systemsenforce certified definitions
Humansapprove the definition
ARCHETYPE policy-to-complianceCADENCE change-drivenDATA semantic layerSENSITIVITY medium
THE BOUNDARY · definitions are human-approved; the semantic layer enforces, it does not invent metrics.
OWNERSHIP Finance stewardVALUE Medium – metric trustAUTONOMY Tier 2 of 4CONTROL Medium sensitivitySCOPE Core
03 · THE SIZING – FULL EVIDENCE TRAIL

The number, carried the way every claim is carried.

The figure on the front page arrives here as what it is – a governed packet. Range, basis, inputs, benchmarks, derivation, assumptions, and the strongest objection to it, all in one place.
BU FINANCE SIZING PACKET
BU-SZ-02 · ARR-QUALITY POOL
OUTSIDE-IN
RANGE
$6–28M / yr · annual recurring
BASIS
Hybrid · Confidence: Medium-Low
WHAT IT IS
Faster driver-signal-to-owner-action catches churn and contraction risk in-quarter rather than in post-mortem. Applied to recurring revenue, a fraction of the annual churn envelope becomes addressable through earlier intervention. Conditioned on BU and customer-success owners acting.
INPUTS
Next-gen recurring revenue (ARR) base of a representative large-cap SaaS company; churn envelope applied as a share of ARR
BENCHMARKS
Enterprise SaaS annual logo churn ~1–2% (Recurly / Optifai 2025–26, corroborative) · net revenue retention 115–125% (SaaS Capital / Benchmarkit)
DERIVATION
1 · annual churn/contraction envelope = ~1–2% of ARR
2 · earlier signal addresses 10–25% of that envelope
3 · range → ~$6M/yr low · ~$28M/yr high
ASSUMPTIONS
(1) churn envelope 1–2% of ARR (Tier 3 benchmark) · (2) 10–25% addressable via earlier signal · (3) retention of existing ARR, not new-logo revenue
SENSITIVITY
The addressable-envelope share moves it most – halving to 5–12.5% gives ~$3M–14M/yrsanity bound: high end ($28M) is 0.5% of ARR – a quarter of the at-risk envelope, leaving the structural majority untouched
THE ATTACK
“Our NRR is strong; you’re sizing revenue we’d keep anyway.” — The range is a fraction of the churn envelope, only the marginal at-risk revenue where earlier signal changes the outcome; sources are Tier 3, which is why confidence is Medium-Low.
OUTSIDE-IN · ILLUSTRATIVE · SUBJECT TO VALIDATION
Modeled on a Representative SaaS Company · outside-in, illustrative
A target-state vision · every value claim subject to validation