In this episode of the FP&A Trends Video Series, Hyder Hasan, Global Finance Director at PureCircle and a member of the FP&A Board in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), shares his thoughts on the importance of FP&A soft skills. Soft skills are the differentiating factor between a good business partner and an effective business partner.
What ignited this article? I was talking with some upcoming college graduates from a similar background as myself. They were looking to go into corporate finance/financial planning & analysis (FP&A) after graduating from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. I shared with them lessons I learned from 10 years in the finance game.
The application of design thinking involves the creation of solutions in the meeting of an objective. Unlike a purely analytical approach, it begins with the solution and utilizes resources from across the enterprise to bring about its creation. The purely analytical approach breaks down the problem into its subsequent parts in order to rebuild it anew.
This blog post addresses the acquisition of FP&A skills. People who want to become financial planning and analysis (FP&A) practitioners obtain advice on how to achieve this goal. One piece of advice is to acquire education by taking courses in subjects like accounting, economics, and finance.
In this recent interview with GTNews, Larysa Melnychuk sets out the fundamentals of FP&A, its vital role within the organisation, its international aspects and future FP&A trends to watch.
The inaugural full meeting of the London FP&A Board confined itself to detailing the attributes required of an FP&A professional and the evening’s roundtable discussion produced a set of best practice recommendations detailing the necessary skills and mix of different personalities that should go into building a successful FP&A team.