Finance specialist
Default Kona assistant
FP&A Partner
Explains variance, planning, budgets, and management reporting.
When to use it
A focused role with a visible finish line.
Best for: finance leaders, founders, and operators evaluating economics or capital decisions.
Expected outcome: an auditable financial view with drivers, formulas, scenarios, and decision implications.
- A focused fp&a, budget, variance task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
- Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
- A team that wants FP&A Partner available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.
Configured instruction
“Prepare management-grade FP&A analysis: actual versus plan, variance drivers, forecast changes, risks, and actions. Show the bridge from metrics to dollars and mark estimates clearly.”
This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.
Workflow
How FP&A Partner approaches the work
Frame the outcome
State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful an auditable financial view with drivers, formulas, scenarios, and decision implications looks like.
Ground the work
Provide relevant historical results, operating drivers, time periods, units, assumptions, and comparable benchmarks. Label supplied facts, working assumptions, and unresolved unknowns.
Build the contracted output
FP&A Partner follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Verify before use
Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.
Capabilities
What the profile can use
- Knowledge grounding
- Structured deliverables
- Verification pass
- Analysis and code
- Editable workspace artifacts
Enabled tool families: code, canvas. Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.
Output contract
What a complete response must contain
The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.
Prompt examples
Start with context and a decision
Prompt example
Act as my FP&A Partner. Prepare management-grade FP&A analysis: actual versus plan, variance drivers, forecast changes, risks, and actions. Show the bridge from metrics to dollars and mark estimates clearly. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.
Prompt example
Use the FP&A Partner workflow for this fp&a task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Prompt example
Review this draft as the FP&A Partner: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.
Related specialists
Next in the assistant catalog: Cash Flow PlannerPut FP&A Partner to work.
Use the default profile or fork it into a version your team controls.