Recently, I have encountered a lot of discussions within the finance (FP&A) professionals community about business partnering. The challenge in such discussions is to move from theoretical reasoning into practical execution. In this article, I would like to talk about one possible area where cooperation between FP&A and Data management professionals can deliver mutually beneficial results.
Irina Steenbeek
Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner and coach with more than 11 years of experience. She assists executive data management (DM) professionals in assessing data management's maturity and performance, implementing or optimizing data management frameworks, and developing a data lineage business case. For that, I offer a ready-for-use step-by-step methodology.
Author of " Data Lineage from Business Perspective," "The Orange Model of Data Management," "The Data Management Toolkit," and "The Data Management Cookbook," various white papers and a series of blogs on the topics of data management.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irina-steenbeek/
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In our earlier blogs we have discussed the role of data in your profession, your main benefits from proper managing of data, as well your main concerns about data. In this one I would like to give you a few practical tips on how to ensure getting the ‘right’ data.
Data management is a business function that, in my opinion, every company should have. Still, often it is not the case. Managing data means that everybody in a company knows what data they (can) get and have a good understanding of what can it can be used for. It also means receiving data when and where it is needed. And finally, producing and working with data of acceptable quality.
Very often financial and business planning professional ask the same question: which software do I need to improve my business and financial planning and analysis capabilities? The answer is not straightforward.