At a time when the FP&A framework is being extended to the entire organisation (into Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A)), FP&A Business Partnering need to keep up with this new model to stay relevant and cutting edge. xP&A Business Partnering is now the latest trend that is going well beyond just Finance involving the entire organisation to move FP&A and planning to the next level.

In today’s world, companies need more than ever fast insights to make the appropriate critical moves. Unfortunately, current BI tools through dashboards report ‘what’ happened and does not help to understand the ‘why’.

Changing consumer behaviours, supply chain shifts, and innovations in data analytics have pushed FP&A professionals to reconsider their approach to revenue planning processes. Those processes are both strategic and operational and require complete visibility on all data and drivers.

In this 7-minute presentation, Rodolphe Aubin argues that FP&A transformation should be seen as an opportunity to generate much more value for the business rather than a threat. What is the formula to successfully deploy intelligent FP&A?

Companies nowadays are looking at using specialised FP&A solutions to help improve the accuracy and efficiency of the forecasting process. Depending on the maturity of the FP&A function, we can roughly divide companies into three levels of maturity in terms of their use of specialised FP&A solutions.

The modern FP&A takes an exciting path of transformation to meet the demands of modern business operating in a highly uncertain environment. Changes in the FP&A framework are mainly driven by an increasing amount of data, innovations in technology and analytical methods. What will it involve getting to the leading stage of FP&A Maturity?