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KarlW
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KarlWCommunity Manager
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FP&A Jobs #19 - Feb 16thjobs

For all the new joiners, a quick reminder of what you get with this newsletter:👉🏾 Around 10 fresh job offers 👉🏻From top companies worldwide 👉 Every Thursday🥳We’re very happy to share that we reached +1000 subscribers to the newsletter last week. We wanted to say a big thanks to all our subscribers and people involved in this project - we didn't expect such traction and impact on the community when we started the project.A few highlights on the subscribers:1,018 talents and hiring managers from top tech companies (Stripe, Intercom, DoorDash, LinkedIn, Aircall, Google...) and Enterprise (H&M, Ikea, Deloitte, Philips, AB InBev...) A good mix of seniority: 26% of Leaders, 29% of Managers, 10% of Analysts From all over the world: 42% in EMEA, 40% in the US We’d love to have your support to grow the community and reach new milestones together - any Linkedin posts promoting the newsletter would be much more appreciated. Example of post (thanks Asif!)​Now, on with the show! Executive

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KarlW
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Guillermo Puls
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Input templates

I’m trying to create a template where people can introduce cost by supplier.How can I insert new lines for a preset table or metric? I tried to do so in the spreadsheet functionality bet it’s greyed out. Thanks in advance,G 

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abhilashsawla
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Converting a number formatted date to a normal date format

Sometimes the data that you upload in Pigment just isn't perfect. And that's ok, because nobody is perfect!In this article, I want to show you how you can convert a numeric date format (usually from Excel) to a date in Pigment. This date can then be used to convert to another time dimension like a month, a quarter or a year. All credit to @Remi for coming up with this methodology.Maybe you recognize this format below from your work in Excel, sometimes your date shows as a number.Example from Excel When your import file contains this number formatted date, there is an easy way to convert it in Pigment without first going back to Excel. As the number format in Excel is basically a calculation of a set start date (1-1-1900) + a number of days, we can use this same calculation to retrieve the date from the number. Use the Date formula to calculate your result as in the example below.  Date(1900,1,1) + Date Formatted Number -2 Date conversion example (dates in MM-DD-YYYY) The reason for the

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Trever Leavenworth
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Trever LeavenworthMaster Trendsetter
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LASTNONBLANK to return dimension from target metric?

Hi Pigment team! I’m trying to set up some cohort modeling for launches. I have an input metric, of dimensions [Partner] and [Cohort Month], where Cohort Month is a 0-indexed integer list. The inputs are the number of live clients in that month (it’s chunky, usually a piecewise rollout for the first 3-6 months). Let’s say partner A’s launch is coming up. Launch month is Cohort Month 0:                             0           :           1           :             2          :          etc.            Partner A           100                   500                    1000                  etc. I want to know when to switch from this manual input metric to my growth curve assumption for the forecast, so I have to map these cohort months to calendar months. I think the best way to do this is to have a mapping metric which returns the lastnonblank [Cohort Month] as an integer from the input metric outlined above. I can then use TIMEDIM to add that number of cohort months out from the launch m

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Trever Leavenworth
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Manage EUR cst & FX columns in Transaction List

Hello, In my Transaction List, I have a column called EUR CST that I calculate from a variable FX column. However, this EUR CST is associated with rates for the year 2022.We have just received the first figures for 2023, but we are now using a different rate (the rates are in a transaction list, with two columns: rate 22 and rate 23).What is the best way/best practice to switch to rate 23 for the 2023 figures?However, I would like to avoid doing this every year (in 2024, it would be nice if it automatically switched to the 2024 rate). Is there a way to do this? Because all my metrics depend on this column.Thank you,Alexandre

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Keiran
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Error message "A Dimension List must have a unique Property"

Hello ! Sorry my question might be really easy here but I am just a beginner. When trying to map my imported CSV, I have the error message “A Dimension List must have a unique Property".Do you know which error I have made? 

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Sam Gale
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Sam GaleNew Here
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Win $50 in celebration of our Community birthday!

The Pigment Community is officially 1 year old!! 🥳   In that time, we've seen lots of great questions and discussions pop up, like these from February so far:   What is your preferred way to export reports to PDF? Filtering Views - When can you filter by properties? What change management resources would you like to see?   To celebrate, for every answer on a community question between the 14th and 28th of February, you'll be entered into the draw. On the 1st of March, we'll select 3 people randomly to win an Amazon voucher for $50 USD, £50 GBP or €50 (depending on where you're based).   Answer 20 questions? That's 20 entries. Question already been answered? That's okay, leave your two cents. In fact, if you leave your two cents 20 times and win $50, that's a whopping 12,500% ROI 😎 The rules: - You must be a Pigment customer or partner. - Only answers to questions asked by others (i.e. not you) will be counted. - Only one answer per question per per

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IP Address of Pigment Servers - For access to Snowflake

Hi Team,What is the IP for pigment servers that are used to send requests to Snowflake. Our snowflake is gated with IP addresses and we need this to allow access to the pigment tool.

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Pierre
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Filtering Views - When can you filter by properties?

Hi! For creating filtering views, why aren’t some dimensions allowed to be filtered by properties? For example, I have a dimension in my data hub for balance sheet accounts and some additional properties within that dimension, but I’m unable to filter by those properties. What I can do instead is add BS_Accounts → Property as a filter on the right-side bar, and restrict it to what I want to filter Filtering View unable to select “Property” for Dimension “BS_Accounts”: Filtering “BS_Accounts” Via Pages in Sidebar and Restricting Dropdown List: 

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Filtering all metrics of a table

Is there a way to filter from the view all metrics in 1 filter to exclude zero values from a table? If there is a table with a lot of data & we want to connect it to a gsheet, having many rows with zero values slow down things. 

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KarlW
Community Manager
KarlW
Community Manager
KarlWCommunity Manager
published in Career Forum
FP&A Jobs #18 - Feb 9thJobs

A reminder of what you get with the Pigment weekly jobs newsletter:  Around 10 fresh job offers  From top companies from all around the world  Every Thursday  You can subscribe to the Jobs Newsletter by clicking here 💌Executive positions  [MOBILITY] Vice President Controlling @ FlixMobility, the market leader operating an international long-distance coach service offering an extensive route network through Europe and now North America, and Brazil.This role will lead the Flix Controlling department and report to the Group CFO. You will develop and grow the FP&A function across the unit economics, metrics and drivers that are key to the Flix business model, supporting decision making across all functions of the business. Munich, DE  [SOFTWARE] VP of FP&A @ Bloomreach, the world’s #1 Commerce Experience Cloud.You will own the global Financial Planning and Analysis team and scale it with the growth of the Company. As the VP of FP&A, you will be the key driver and enabler i

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KarlW
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Roundup Function is not working properly

Without Round Up we were getting the value as 6.40 in june 23 in Black (Dimension list item) after round up we are getting 8 in june 23 but the value should come as 7. This is one example we are showing here but there are multiple errors. we are attaching the screenshot for the same

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francois
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API Docs

Does pigment.app have an api documentation, regarding the usage of api key .i am looking for full api doc that will help me to understand the endpoints and using those with cURL requests

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Few spaces left for the next Customer Connect call! Servicing Executive Stakeholders in Pigment

We have a few spaces left for the next Customer Connect - Servicing Executive Stakeholders in Pigment!Next Monday we’re talking about servicing stakeholders in Pigment. Whether it’s investors, the C-Suite, or an executive sponsor, we want to discuss how you’re approaching this in Pigment. One of our Solution Architects will prepare some questions to help guide the conversation, but it’s an opportunity for you to share your own insights, and get some to help you better serve your own stakeholders.Are you a customer who wants to share and learn from your peers on this topic? Sign up now! 

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Yohann Bedos
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Board pages

Hello !I would like to duplicate a board for our German team (I have currently created a sales reporting for our French and Belgian team). However, if I duplicate this board and apply “Germany” in my Country dimension page, it also applies this country to my other board (for France and Belgium)… Do you know how I can unlink the 2 boards so that when I select a country, it doesn’t change the country in the other board?Thanks!!Elodie

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Is there a way to bring data from a metric to a dimension property?

I have a metric containing data that I would like to associate to a dimension list property, the LASTNONBLANK formulae is not working.

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francois
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KarlW
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Last version in a dimension

Hello community :) I have a dimension with all my employee and their packages (with historization). For example: one personn who received a salary increase have 2 rows:first row with start end date of previous package second row with start date as end date of the previous packageWould it be possible to create a formula which allows to have a filter in page which ables to select only the last value in the dimension for each employee (ie the last up to date package)? Thanks a lot!

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KarlW
Community Manager
KarlW
Community Manager
KarlWCommunity Manager
published in Career Forum
FP&A Jobs #17 - Feb 2ndJobs

A quick reminder of what you get with our weekly jobs newsletter: 👉🏿 Around 10 fresh job offers 👉🏻 From top companies from all around the world 👉 Every Thursday  You can subscribe to the Jobs Newsletter by clicking here 💌Executive positions [SOFTWARE] Director, FP&A @ FreeWheel, one of the largest platforms used by TV networks and major video distributors to serve ads alongside their content online.This role will be responsible for all aspects of the financial planning process and will be expected to work on special projects, typically projects involving financial analysis and research of business issues to provide management with financial data and business advice to support their resource allocation, investment and objectives for advertising growth and profitability. New York, US  [TRAVEL] Head of Global Finance Strategy @ FTI GROUP, the third largest tour operator in Germany and Europe.Set up of a modern working capital management organization. Development of a debt re

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KarlW
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Allocation of indirect costs to several list items

Hello community,I contact you regarding an issue of indirect costs allocation to several list items.I have (fictive number) 10K€ of indirect costs categorized as “No checkout ID” which i want to allocate to each item of my item lists based on an allocation key.To do so i’ve created 2 metrics based on 2 unique dimensions :1. “Id_checkout” (Item list to which the direct costs and indirect costs are to be allocated)2.  “Month” (because the allocation is based on a monthly basis)First metric - Checkout level test - Consolidation of indirect costs→ Filter on Indirect costs (“No checkout Id”)→ Dimensions : Date (Month), Id_Checkout  Second metric - Allocation Key Fees Test - Indirect cost allocation Key→ Logic is to divide the direct costs allocated to each item list by the total cost of the month1. Checkout level test - Direct cost per item - 2 dimensions (ID_checkout, Month)2. Checkout level Fees for allocation key - Total cost per month - 1 dimension (Month)→ It will give to each item lis

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agnar
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agnarWallflower
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Import configurations for a block that's moved to a new application

I have a transaction list that I want to move to a different application. The list is updated automatically using an API key. If I move the transaction list to its new application, will I need to update anything on the source system side or will the API key continue to work?

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agnar
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Import format

Hi everyone!I would like to know which encoding is recommanded when importing a document containing € signs. I usually pick the “Western European (ISO)” encoding but the € signs are not compatible:Could you please help me understand if this comes from the encoding or if I should adjust another parameter when importing data?Thanks! 🤗Elodie

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Sam Gale
New Here
Sam GaleNew Here
published in Company News
Sheet View is now live! 🎉Feature

Introducing Pigment Sheet View! After much anticipation, Sheet View is finally live in Pigment! 🥳Sheet View is a new view option that allows you to make use of Pigment’s flexibility and real-time updates in a familiar spreadsheet layout, making it easier to use Pigment as your single source of truth and collaborate productively within the platform. “Sheet View gives you that last-mile flexibility without leaving Pigment.”– Jose Ramon Iglesias, VP of FP&A at Uberall Click here to read the technical documentation and discover the full functionality of Sheet View!  Who is Sheet View for? Sheet View is for all Pigment users, but depending on what you’re trying to achieve, it may be useful to different people in different ways.For modelers, Sheet View is most useful as a sandbox-style environment to help make modeling decisions by running calculations on existing data. This can provide context for your logic and thinking for later reference.For those using Pigment primarily for insight

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KarlW
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KarlWCommunity Manager
published in Career Forum
FP&A Jobs #16 - Jan 26thJobs

A quick reminder of what you get with our weekly jobs newsletter:  Around 10 fresh job offers  From top companies from all around the world  Every Thursday  You can subscribe to the Jobs Newsletter by clicking here Executive positions [FINTECH] Director, FP&A @ Figure, transforms the trillion-dollar financial services industry using blockchain technology.You will report to the Chief Financial Officer and work closely with Finance, Accounting and Business leaders to drive our financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and ad hoc financial analysis. In addition, the role will work on strategic transactions which include product pitches, SPAC pitches and acquisitions. Remote, US  [REAL ESTATE] Head of FP&A @ Mynd, a tech-enabled real estate company serving the $85B+ property management and real estate investment market.You will play a critical role in the development and implementation of financial, strategic and growth objectives aimed to provide long term profitable growth

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KarlW
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agnar
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agnarWallflower
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Avoid creating empty rows

I have a boolean metric with three dimensions: Position, Version and Month. Position Version Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 001 Forecast ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ 001 Plan ☑️ ☑️ ☑️   002 Forecast ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ Positions can be a part of different teams over time. I have another metric, *Position Mapping* which is of type Team with the same dimensions as the boolean. Position Version Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 001 Forecast Team A Team A Team A Team A 001 Plan Team A Team B Team B   002 Forecast Team X Team X Team Y Team Y  Now I want to add the Team dimension into the first metric. I have tried doing it like this:‘My boolean’ [by: → ‘Position Mapping’]Team Position Version Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Team A 001 Forecast ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ Team A 001 Plan ☑️       Team B 001 Plan   ☑️ ☑️   Team X 002 Forecast ☑️ ☑️     Team Y 002 Forecast     ☑️ ☑️  This achieves the goal except for one thing. Wh

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