May is over, Theresa fell too, and so too did the Index of Britain’s health.

FP&A teams are using AI to drive step changes in business performance, pushing their influence beyond their traditional areas of analyses.

As financial professionals we Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) professionals spend a lot of timing learning - learning the basics of accounting and finance, learning the business and learning about the impacts business decisions have on budgets and forecasts.

The pressure of globalization and agile decision-making requires companies to improve their business modeling.  They must integrate big data in real-time, synthesize that data to identify causal relationships and value-drivers, and ultimately use the findings to make high-impact business decisions.

Most large and medium-size companies are within ecosystems with increasing complexity and evolutions speed. Globalisation, regulations, technological changes, competitor moves, innovations, customer demands change and few others are the source of this increase in complexity and change speed.

Each function has strategic insight that can benefit senior management with their unique perspective. While this is true, there are only so many seats at the table, and each organization functions differently.