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.
September 21, 2021
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.
August 12, 2021
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.
May 27, 2021
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.
April 22, 2021
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.
March 18, 2021
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.
Douglas Yeung
Douglas 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
May 18, 2023
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.
September 21, 2021
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.
August 12, 2021
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.
May 27, 2021
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.