# Headcount funding request

## Decision requested

Approve [roles or team change] for [team] beginning [date or hiring wave], within the [planning window] plan.

- Base plan and version:
- Proposal and version:
- Request owner:
- Decision needed by:

## What changes

| Change | Team | Role or spend | Timing | Loaded annual cost | Plan-window cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Add / remove / move / change | | | | | |

- Net filled and open headcount change:
- Net FTE change:
- Annual run-rate change:
- Plan-window cost change:
- Rate source: company card / direct override / labeled benchmark estimate

## Budget impact

- Funding envelope:
- Already committed:
- This request:
- Remaining after approval:
- Currency and planning window:

## Why this plan

- Capability or outcome added:
- Why this timing:
- Dependencies:
- Cost or operational risks:

## Alternatives considered

### Alternative A

- What changes:
- Annual run-rate change:
- Plan-window cost change:
- Trade-off:

### Keep the current plan

- Cost avoided:
- Capability, timing, or risk consequence:

## Checks and exceptions

- Funding envelope:
- Allocation above 100 percent:
- Unpriced positions:
- Reporting-structure findings:
- Rate overrides or other exceptions, with reasons:

## Conditions

- [Testable approval condition and owner]

## Decision record

- Decision: approved / approved with conditions / changes requested / rejected
- Approver:
- Decision date:
- Reviewed plan version:
- Final conditions:
- Follow-up owner and date: