Finance professionals can serve in a wide variety of areas within an organization. However, some of these areas have had high demands over the last few years, especially the demand for professionals with specific skill sets and experience in business and financial analysis, and data analytics.

Most recently, I have been observing significant changes in business models in many organisations around the globe.  

Many FP&A Board members say the future can no longer be predicted based on only historical data since we are living in an environment of “Unknown Unknowns”. 

One of my favorite sayings is – “if you say it enough times, it becomes true”. Within my organization, I’ve heard many sayings I know are simply not true that become believed.

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.