Jirav

Jirav is a financial planning and analysis platform built for accounting firms and outsourced CFO practices, combining budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards in one workspace as a replacement for spreadsheet models.

How accounting firms use it

It underpins CFO and controller engagements delivered at scale. Rather than maintaining a bespoke spreadsheet per client — each fragile, each understood by one person — firms build driver-based models from a common structure and connect them to the client’s ledger and payroll so actuals populate automatically.

The practical benefit is that a monthly forecast update stops being a rebuild. Actuals flow in, variances surface against plan, and the conversation moves to what changed and why, which is the part clients pay for.

Key features

Models are driver-based: revenue derives from volume and price assumptions, payroll from headcount and salary, so changing an input updates dependent lines throughout. Workforce planning models hiring by role, start date, and compensation, which matters because payroll dominates cost for most SMB clients.

Scenario comparison holds multiple forecasts simultaneously — base, upside, downside — for presentation side by side. Reporting and dashboards are generated from the same model, so plan and actual figures reconcile by construction rather than by manual checking.

Data connections cover QuickBooks Online, Xero, and payroll platforms including Gusto and ADP.

Who it’s best for

Firms delivering outsourced CFO, controller, or advisory services, particularly those managing several clients where a shared modelling structure saves substantial time.

Compliance-only practices without an advisory offering do not need FP&A tooling at this level. Firms whose advisory work is periodic reporting rather than rolling forecasting generally find Fathom, Spotlight Reporting, or Reach Reporting sufficient and cheaper. PlanGuru and LivePlan cover budgeting and planning at a lower price point.