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By Ernie Humphrey, CEO at Treasury Careers
I recently had the honor of moderating a global webinar focused on how Finance leaders can leverage FP&A business partnering to impact performance across the enterprise. The featured speakers delivered nothing short of compelling experiences and insights. Larysa Melnychuk, the founder and managing director of FP&A Trends Group, shared her insights and experiences in moderating International FP&A board seminars across the globe. I doubt anyone has had as much face time with FP&A leaders across the globe than Larysa over the past 4 years. Ander Liu-Linberg shared his experiences and insights relative to the ground-breaking finance transformation that has taken place at Maersk over the past ten years. I wanted to share just a few of the great insights and take-aways they offered to our webinar attendees.
In terms of the key attributes of an effective FP&A business partner Larysa offered the following:
Anders delivered very insightful content as he discussed how being an FP&A business partner is both a mindset and a role. The highlights of that discussion are as follows:
The Mindset:
The Job Role:
Anders also shared a framework for creating business partners that I believe can be leveraged by company leaders at companies of all sizes. A structured framework that is the WHY, WHERE, WHAT and HOW of what a finance business partner does; combines Business with Finance; offers six categories of activities: data, reports, analysis, insights, influence and impact; and leverages a competency model with four pillars: Technical, Partnering, Analysis and Leadership.
Larysa, shared the FP&A Business Partnering Maturity Model developed by the International FP&A Board. Any company can leverage this model to benchmark where they are at, determine where they want to be, and what it may take to get them there.
The conclusions and recommendations offered by Larysa and Anders are as follows:
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