Watch a video to learn about the long journey Durga Srinivas Perisetti, Director FP&A and Operations Analytics at Juniper Networks, went through while gradually transitioning from Shared Service Center to Center of Excellence and the role of Integrated FP&A.

One of the largest privately owned companies in the world, Cargill’s FP&A journey started around 6 years ago. But, as the company’s Global Finance Director – Cocoa and Chocolate emphasises in a short video, this journey never really ends.

FP&A teams all over the world are undergoing a major transformation via the Integrated FP&A model. Data is the fundamental building block for this transformation.

In times of uncertainty, the failings of systems and measures are brought sharply into focus. Managing profitability often requires a complete re-think of how an organisation plans and the supporting systems that can help sustain profits in both the short and long term. That’s the subject of this paper.

xP&A is more than an attempt to ‘fix’ the planning process. It is a complete transformation of the FP&A function to continually challenge the status quo, to educate, shape and influence management decisions on how the organization achieves its goals.

In this incredible business environment of high uncertainty and risk, many organisations have found themselves in the realm of “Unknown Unknowns".

So how we can plan for Unknown? How can we achieve flexible and dynamic Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes that support decision-making under uncertainty?