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Ten Key Considerations for Effective FP&A Communication
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By Simone da Silva Collins, Senior Financial Analyst at Sony

Communication is a key soft skill that FP&A professionals should master. Getting it right the first time enables FP&A professionals

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The Power of Business Partnering
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One important skill finance professionals are never taught during their formal education is the power of personal engagement with operations

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How You Can Implement FP&A Business Partnering In Your FP&A Function
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By Anders Liu-Lindberg, Co-founder, COO and CMO of the Business Partnering Institute

 

Being a business partner requires a specific skillset. Furthermore, specific conditions should be in place to increase the chance of

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FP&A – Just for Budget Time?
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By Simone da Silva Collins, Senior Financial Analyst at Sony

Simone da Silva Collins is an FP&A professional working in The Warranty Group, one of the world's premier global providers of warranty solutions and related benefits.

She provides business partnering and assists in development of MI to operations heads at TWG. Prior to joining TWG, she was the Finance Manager at Polycom (taken private by private equity firm Siris Capital Group) and provides business partner support to various departments in EMEA. She was previously the Group Finance Analyst supporting the Executive Team at Intec (now part of CSG), a provider of Business Support System (BSS) software and related services, primarily for the telecommunications industry. She also worked for Telewest (now part of Virgin Media) for over 7 years providing commercial and financial support to the Interconnect team.

Simone is originally from Macau in SE Asia. She gained her Masters at Manchester Business School. In addition to being ACCA qualified, Simon has also achieved FP&A accreditation.

FP&A does not work in the finance silo of providing backward looking analysis of what has happened. They arm themselves

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What is FP&A Business Partnering?
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By Anders Liu-Lindberg, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at the Business Partnering Institute

Finance is tasked with delivering better Business Intelligence and more importantly better insights to influence decision-making in the right direction

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7 Reasons Why Good Financial Business Partnering Starts with Cash Flow
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By Michael J. Huthwaite, Director of Product Management at Walmart

As Finance leaders, we can’t expect the business to view Finance as value-added partners if we can’t put a stop

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