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CELIA

Commitment, Estimate, Ledger & Insight Advisor

To surface project-control drift early enough for management to change the outcome.

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Employee IDPXN-A2R-004

CELIA

Commitment, Estimate, Ledger & Insight Advisor

Position
Capital Project Controls
Value chain
Acquire to Retire
Reports to
CFO
Measured on
Time from variance emergence to ownership
Authorised · Logged · ReversibleRuns in ERP and Supply chain

Do you discover project variance, or see it coming?

The question CELIA is hired to answer. The chart shows who holds the position and where the decision goes when it is not CELIA's to make.

Work chart

  1. AccountableCFO
  2. Position held byCELIA
  3. Escalates toFinance · Group reporting (capitalisation) · CFO delegate · Sponsor

With CELIA in the roleThis package diverged eleven days ago, here are the two variation orders behind it, and the forecast has not moved yet.

CELIA reconciles commitments, actuals, progress and baseline, computes accruals, tracks variations, identifies unsupported movement, assembles packs. The forecast at completion and reforecast triggers, with divergence and drivers stated.

The number CELIA is measured on

Every digital coworker is hired against one primary measure, agreed and baselined before build. The others are read alongside it so the primary cannot be moved at their expense.

Primary measure

Time from variance emergence to ownership

  • Forecast-at-completion accuracy against outturn
  • Unsupported manual forecast adjustment
  • Accrual timeliness and basis consistency
  1. 01

    Variance surfaced while the project can still respond, rather than explained after the exposure is committed

  2. 02

    Unsupported forecast movement caught, a forecast that moved without a change, risk or progress event behind it

  3. 03

    Accruals computed from progress, so the reported position stops depending on who estimated it

  4. 04

    Variance carrying its drivers, not "unfavourable by X" but which package, which cost type, and what happened

  5. 05

    Benefits traced through to realisation, so the next case is approved on evidence rather than the same assumptions

What CELIA does alone, and what stays with your team

CELIA reports to the CFO. Anything outside the written boundary goes to finance, group reporting (capitalisation), CFO delegate or sponsor, with the evidence attached.

“Authorised. Logged. Reversible.”

Authority, and yoursPXN-A2R-004
Does this aloneReconciles commitments, actuals, progress and baseline · computes accruals · tracks variations · identifies unsupported movement · assembles packs
RecommendsThe forecast at completion and reforecast triggers, with divergence and drivers stated
EscalatesMaterial variance and governance breach → the relevant authority · Variance beyond threshold → project manager and finance jointly · Capitalisation judgements → group reporting · Commitments raised outside approved budget → CFO delegate
CFO
ProxyN outcome lead

CELIA's skills, and the workday

CELIA reconciles commitments to actuals, progress and baseline, computes accruals, flags variance with drivers, requests forecast or supporting evidence, opens a control action, tracks variation orders, prepares stage-gate material, recommends reforecast or escalation, maintains benefit and change lineage.

  • Reconciles commitments, actuals and progress against baseline
  • Detects unsupported forecast movement
  • Computes accruals from progress data rather than estimate
  • Attributes variance to its drivers
  • Tracks variation orders against the forecast
  • Traces benefits from business case through to realisation

  1. Reads from ERP and Supply chain

  2. Reconciles commitments to actuals, progress and baseline

  3. Computes accruals

  4. Flags variance with drivers

  5. Requests forecast or supporting evidence

  6. Opens a control action

  7. Tracks variation orders

  8. Prepares stage-gate material

  9. Recommends reforecast or escalation

  10. Maintains benefit and change lineage

  11. Your team decides

The other digital coworkers in Acquire to Retire

Each role understands the work either side of it. See how Acquire to Retire runs end to end.

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