Where is your finance team on the analytics maturity curve? Is finance in your organization providing prescriptive analytics to help steer the business? Is your financial planning and analysis team use artificial intelligence or machine learning to improve forecast accuracy? These are just a few of the many topics we discussed at the recent FP&A Board meeting in Toronto.
 

FP&A professionals are knowledge leaders with highly technical skills. While often seen as the smartest number crunchers in the room, what is overlooked is that FP&A leaders must be some of the most empathetic leaders and astute communicators in the company. 

The Seattle FP&A Board met on March 14th.  Larysa Melnychuk, Founder of the FP&A Board, moderated the discussion. The meeting was sponsored by SAP and Robert Half. 

These notes were made during the 22nd meeting of the FP&A Board on 7^th March 2019 in London.  They are a mixture of comments made by attendees and thoughts of those who presented case studies.

In February 2019, the International FP&A Board held two meetings in Switzerland. The ninth Geneva FP&A Board and the eighth Zurich FP&A Board gathered more than 30 senior finance professionals each.

Following on from the success of the 21^st London FP&A Board, we had the pleasure of attending the 8^th London FP&A Circle which shares the latest professional trends and developments with the UK FP&A community, open exclusively by invitation to senior and mid-level finance practitioners.