
Checking for Variances Can Be a Pain in Spreadsheets
Checking for Variances Can Be a Pain in Spreadsheets

Sebastian Perez-Lawrence
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Apr 23, 2025




If you work in corporate finance at an enterprise company, you know this pain all too well:
You’re deep in a massive spreadsheet—multiple tabs, external links, complex formulas—and now it’s your job to review someone else’s work before it goes into management reporting.
That review process?
Time-consuming
Hard to ramp up
Nearly impossible to get comfort if you’re new to the org or didn't build the model yourself
Let me walk you through a familiar scenario:
You’re in FP&A, consolidating financials across business lines. Each month, you're tracking variances in revenue and expenses. Your colleagues send over variance commentary… but nothing connects cleanly.
The spreadsheet isn’t set up to show these changes clearly from one reporting period to the next.
So, what do you do?
You spend lots of time flipping between tabs, pulling up previous versions, digging into formulas, emailing for clarification, or jumping on a Teams call to decipher what changed and why.
This is the hidden tax on finance teams—the cost of collaboration in spreadsheets.
It leads to errors, wasted time, and burnout.
At Rockhopper, we’re building that world. We help enterprise finance teams audit, understand, and trust their critical spreadsheets—without wasting hours retracing steps or second-guessing numbers.
Check out a quick demo below to see how we help teams stay aligned and understand work.

If you work in corporate finance at an enterprise company, you know this pain all too well:
You’re deep in a massive spreadsheet—multiple tabs, external links, complex formulas—and now it’s your job to review someone else’s work before it goes into management reporting.
That review process?
Time-consuming
Hard to ramp up
Nearly impossible to get comfort if you’re new to the org or didn't build the model yourself
Let me walk you through a familiar scenario:
You’re in FP&A, consolidating financials across business lines. Each month, you're tracking variances in revenue and expenses. Your colleagues send over variance commentary… but nothing connects cleanly.
The spreadsheet isn’t set up to show these changes clearly from one reporting period to the next.
So, what do you do?
You spend lots of time flipping between tabs, pulling up previous versions, digging into formulas, emailing for clarification, or jumping on a Teams call to decipher what changed and why.
This is the hidden tax on finance teams—the cost of collaboration in spreadsheets.
It leads to errors, wasted time, and burnout.
At Rockhopper, we’re building that world. We help enterprise finance teams audit, understand, and trust their critical spreadsheets—without wasting hours retracing steps or second-guessing numbers.
Check out a quick demo below to see how we help teams stay aligned and understand work.


Making finance teams work smarter with spreadsheets
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Making finance teams work smarter with spreadsheets
Get a glimpse of a what a hassle-free future could look like today.

Making finance teams work smarter with spreadsheets
Get a glimpse of a what a hassle-free future could look like today.

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Company
Rockhopper Inc. All right reserved. © 2025

Our mission is to empower finance teams with workflow automation to perform better review and analysis.
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Company
Rockhopper Inc. All right reserved. © 2025

Our mission is to empower finance teams with workflow automation to perform better review and analysis.
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Company
Rockhopper Inc. All right reserved. © 2025