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Acquiring Soft Skills – Learn from Other Teams
soft skills
June 4, 2020

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

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

This blog focuses on identifying the soft skills needed to complement your technical, planning and analytical skills, together with your digital knowledge. It also suggests who in the organisation is best placed to share their top tips.

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Improve Your Digital IQ
March 31, 2020

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

FP&A Tags:
Digital FP&A, Financial Planning and Analysis, FP&A Technology, AI/ML FP&A, FP&A Skills

This blog discusses the importance of improving your digital IQ, a term used by PWC for corporates but something that I believe should also be applied to individuals. Your digital IQ (your knowledge of technology and its impacts) is in effect a ‘gateway’ or an ‘enabler’ to the future role of any commercial finance/ FP&A individual.

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The Finance Function of The Future
February 26, 2020

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

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

This is one of a series of three blogs – assessing some of the predictions about the future role of finance. The other two blogs focus on the skills needed for the digital world, one covering technical/digital knowledge and the other covering soft skills.

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The Secret to New Product Analysis
January 21, 2020

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

 
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Cost Planning, Planning and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis, FP&A Analytics

In this blog I take a broader view of new products and talk about how best to monitor progress post-launch when information is still a little sketchy, volumes are still very low and reporting mechanisms may not yet be fully in place.

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Creating Corporate Scorecards
November 19, 2019

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Storytelling, FP&A KPI, Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard is a familiar concept, still widely used today, often falling to FP&A or Strategic Planning teams to create and then monitor. This process can be very challenging and problematic to deliver. This blog focuses on some practical observations and tips regarding the implementation of a scorecard, designed to help you get buy-in from the rest of the organisation.

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Forecasting New Product Launches
August 13, 2019

By Marco Singh, Commercial Finance Director at Ensono

FP&A Tags:
Modelling and Forecasting, Forecasting Quality

Forecasting new product launches are a tricky business with plenty of emotional baggage. They are also often, inevitably, wrong. This blog argues that when commercial finance or FP&A professionals are involved they should focus equally on model flexibly as well as the outcome.

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Marco Singh

marco_singh.jpgMarco Singh is a commercial finance director that has worked for both startup & blue-chip companies across a number of industries, from fintech payments to low-tech manufacturing.

A common feature across all the companies he has worked for is the focus on top-line growth and innovation. His main expertise is around building and leading highly commercial business partner or FP&A teams.

He is an associate member of CIMA and has an MBA from Warwick Business School.
 

Author's Articles

soft skills
Acquiring Soft Skills – Learn from Other Teams
June 4, 2020
FP&A Tags:
FP&A Team Building, FP&A Skills

This blog focuses on identifying the soft skills needed to complement your technical, planning and analytical skills, together with your digital knowledge. It also suggests who in the organisation is best placed to share their top tips.

Read more
Improve Your Digital IQ
March 31, 2020
FP&A Tags:
Digital FP&A, Financial Planning and Analysis, FP&A Technology, AI/ML FP&A, FP&A Skills

This blog discusses the importance of improving your digital IQ, a term used by PWC for corporates but something that I believe should also be applied to individuals. Your digital IQ (your knowledge of technology and its impacts) is in effect a ‘gateway’ or an ‘enabler’ to the future role of any commercial finance/ FP&A individual.

Read more
The Finance Function of The Future
February 26, 2020
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Digital FP&A

This is one of a series of three blogs – assessing some of the predictions about the future role of finance. The other two blogs focus on the skills needed for the digital world, one covering technical/digital knowledge and the other covering soft skills.

Read more
The Secret to New Product Analysis
January 21, 2020
FP&A Tags:
Financial Planning and Analysis, Cost Planning, Planning and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis, FP&A Analytics

In this blog I take a broader view of new products and talk about how best to monitor progress post-launch when information is still a little sketchy, volumes are still very low and reporting mechanisms may not yet be fully in place.

Read more

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