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Making Driver-Based Planning Work for Your Company – the Missing Link
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May 18, 2023

By Douglas Yeung, Director of Business Operations at 8x8

FP&A Tags:
Driver Based Planning

In this article, the author explains the challenge of translating the impact of business activities or initiatives devised after the planning cycle. This article provides a comprehensive view of mitigating it in the post-planning part of the cycle with the FP&A team’s involvement and applying Driver-Based Planning.

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3 Dos and Don'ts in Business Partnering (you’d be surprised!)
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September 21, 2021

By Douglas Yeung, Senior FD at Genesys

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Business Partnering, FP&A People, FP&A Skills, FP&A Strategic Planning

There are probably a lot of tips and learnings you have picked up as you went on your journey as a finance business partner, but you may still be up for some surprises from the list here.

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3 Ways FP&A Can Break Down P&Ls for Better Insights
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August 12, 2021

By Douglas Yeung, Senior Finance Director at Genesys

FP&A Tags:
Profitability Analysis, Financial Planning and Analysis

One of the most important aspects of the FP&A role is to be able to provide insights by analysing the P&L. On the surface, P&Ls measure the profitability of the whole business and a lot of times FP&A professionals will look at P&Ls for the overall health of the organisation. 

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How Finance Can Frame Better Strategy for the Business
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May 27, 2021

By Douglas Yeung, Senior Finance Director at Genesys

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Strategic Planning, Collaborative FP&A

Similar to a conductor of an orchestra, the finance team looks at all different functions, allowing some to grow faster at times but never taking eyes off other functions so that every function in the company always performs as one to achieve the best results possible.

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How Companies May Use Systems to Improve FP&A Processes
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April 22, 2021

By Douglas Yeung, Senior Finance Director at Genesys

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Technology, Financial Planning and Analysis, FP&A Transformation, Modelling and Forecasting, Forecasting Quality

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.

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Three Tips to Manage Regional FP&A Teams
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March 18, 2021

By Douglas Yeung, Senior Finance Director at Genesys

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Team Building, FP&A Skills

In this article, I will discuss the challenges finance teams face in Asia Pacific and some insights to how we can manage remote FP&A teams. These challenges are mostly similar to other regions where teams are away from headquarters and scattered in various locations.

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Douglas Yeung

douglas_yeung_.jpegDouglas is a partner at Epitelligence Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in helping startups and mid-stage companies scale up their operations.  By implementing the right business processes, these companies are able to gain operational efficiencies and improve profitability while maintaining a high growth model.

Before starting Epitelligence, Douglas spent 20+ years with Fortune 500 companies and startups in various finance and business roles.  His industry experience includes software (SaaS), travel, ecommerce, FMCG, industrial automation and telecom equipment manufacturing.  He has led FP&A teams for Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong and Singapore and also worked in China and the United States.  In addition to finance roles, Douglas has led APAC wide strategy and pricing teams and was appointed interim general manager of a well-known beauty brand’s China business.

Douglas has conducted finance training in different companies and also gave speeches to students at universities in Hong Kong and Singapore to promote a career in FP&A. 
Douglas holds an MBA from Rice University, a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and also a BA in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London.  He is also a member of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
 

Author's Articles

Douglas-Yeung-Driver-Based-Planning-Main
Making Driver-Based Planning Work for Your Company – the Missing Link
May 18, 2023
FP&A Tags:
Driver Based Planning

In this article, the author explains the challenge of translating the impact of business activities or initiatives devised after the planning cycle. This article provides a comprehensive view of mitigating it in the post-planning part of the cycle with the FP&A team’s involvement and applying Driver-Based Planning.

Read more
fp&a
3 Dos and Don'ts in Business Partnering (you’d be surprised!)
September 21, 2021
FP&A Tags:
FP&A Business Partnering, FP&A People, FP&A Skills, FP&A Strategic Planning

There are probably a lot of tips and learnings you have picked up as you went on your journey as a finance business partner, but you may still be up for some surprises from the list here.

Read more
fp&a
3 Ways FP&A Can Break Down P&Ls for Better Insights
August 12, 2021
FP&A Tags:
Profitability Analysis, Financial Planning and Analysis

One of the most important aspects of the FP&A role is to be able to provide insights by analysing the P&L. On the surface, P&Ls measure the profitability of the whole business and a lot of times FP&A professionals will look at P&Ls for the overall health of the organisation. 

Read more
finance
How Finance Can Frame Better Strategy for the Business
May 27, 2021
FP&A Tags:
FP&A Strategic Planning, Collaborative FP&A

Similar to a conductor of an orchestra, the finance team looks at all different functions, allowing some to grow faster at times but never taking eyes off other functions so that every function in the company always performs as one to achieve the best results possible.

Read more

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