Treasury Cash Forecasting Agent
Builds rolling short- and long-term cash flow forecasts across entities and currencies to support liquidity and funding decisions.
Treasury teams need reliable visibility into cash inflows and outflows across multiple bank accounts, entities, and currencies to manage borrowing, investing, and FX exposure decisions, but forecasts are often built manually from AP/AR aging, payroll calendars, and business unit inputs collected over email
These forecasts go stale quickly as actual collections and disbursements diverge from plan, and reconciling forecast-to-actual variance to improve the next cycle is rarely done systematically
Multi-entity, multi-currency organizations face the added complexity of intercompany funding needs and cash pooling arrangements that manual spreadsheets struggle to model accurately
Without a rolling, continuously updated forecast, treasury decisions on credit facility draws, short-term investments, and hedging get made on incomplete information
The agent connects to bank accounts, AP/AR systems, payroll, and debt schedules to build a rolling 13-week direct cash forecast alongside a longer-horizon indirect forecast for planning purposes, refreshing both as new transaction data arrives. It applies historical payment pattern analysis to predict AR collection timing and AP disbursement timing more accurately than fixed terms assumptions, and models intercompany cash flows and pooling arrangements across entities and currencies. Forecast-to-actual variance is tracked automatically each week to identify which forecast drivers need recalibration.
Aggregate Cash Position Data
- Connect to bank accounts across entities and currencies
- Pull AP/AR aging, payroll runs, and debt service schedules
- Consolidate current cash position into a single view
Model Forecast Drivers
- Analyze historical payment patterns for AR and AP timing
- Model intercompany funding and cash pooling flows
- Incorporate known one-time items (capex, tax payments, financing events)
Generate Rolling Forecasts
- Produce the 13-week direct cash forecast weekly
- Produce a longer-horizon indirect forecast for planning
- Flag projected liquidity shortfalls or excess cash periods
Track Variance and Recalibrate
- Compare forecast to actual cash flows weekly
- Identify systematic drivers of variance by category
- Adjust forecast assumptions to improve future accuracy