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How to Bridge the Strategy and Planning Gap: Experiences in Technology Start-Up Organisations
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May 26, 2022

By Matt Armstrong, FP&A Director at Wish

FP&A Tags:
FP&A Strategic Planning, Planning and Budgeting

Best practices from mature technology businesses have stable recurring Rolling Forecasts based on momentum, executive buy-in and a solid understanding of the drivers in both revenues and costs. And those forecasts have defined processes to ensure the right level of risk is mitigated with the right action plans to drive success.  However, start-ups have a different focus: getting their product to market and ensuring there is a fit, or there is no business

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Evaluating Business Cases in a Marketplaces Environment
fp&a
January 27, 2022

By Matt Armstrong, FP&A Director at Wish

FP&A Tags:
Data-Driven FP&A, FP&A Case Studies, Profitability Analysis, Financial Planning and Analysis

Providing decision support on product offerings in an online marketplaces environment requires digging deep on the granularity of the key business drivers to evaluate success. Using a method called “A/B testing” allows an FP&A leader to easily build a framework on key criteria to better understand the various behavioural impacts that consumers apply in different scenarios and to analyse their performance.

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Hiring in FP&A: How to Get the Best People on Board
Hiring
December 9, 2020

By Matt Armstrong, Founder & CEO at Prevoira

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

Throughout my career, I have interviewed hundreds of candidates for dozens of roles, most of which were in FP&A. After evaluating the performance of these professionals personally, I was able to assess the qualities that either led them to their success or not, and it boiled down to three relatively straightforward criteria.

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Matt Armstrong

Matt ArmstrongMatt Armstrong is a commercially astute Finance executive with extensive experience serving as the Finance lead for multi-million to billion dollar divisions for numerous high-tech organizations such as Expedia, Hotwire, Revinate, Uber and Wish. In addition, Matt is an accomplished author and speaker in the FP&A community.

During his career, he has developed an outstanding track record of achievement which can be attributed directly to his extensive experience in financial and operations leadership, FP&A and strategy, forecasting and reporting, budgeting, accounting, technology and systems integration, policy and process development, and team development.

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fp&a
How to Bridge the Strategy and Planning Gap: Experiences in Technology Start-Up Organisations
May 26, 2022
FP&A Tags:
FP&A Strategic Planning, Planning and Budgeting

Best practices from mature technology businesses have stable recurring Rolling Forecasts based on momentum, executive buy-in and a solid understanding of the drivers in both revenues and costs. And those forecasts have defined processes to ensure the right level of risk is mitigated with the right action plans to drive success.  However, start-ups have a different focus: getting their product to market and ensuring there is a fit, or there is no business

Read more
fp&a
Evaluating Business Cases in a Marketplaces Environment
January 27, 2022
FP&A Tags:
Data-Driven FP&A, FP&A Case Studies, Profitability Analysis, Financial Planning and Analysis

Providing decision support on product offerings in an online marketplaces environment requires digging deep on the granularity of the key business drivers to evaluate success. Using a method called “A/B testing” allows an FP&A leader to easily build a framework on key criteria to better understand the various behavioural impacts that consumers apply in different scenarios and to analyse their performance.

Read more
Hiring
Hiring in FP&A: How to Get the Best People on Board
December 9, 2020
FP&A Tags:
FP&A Team Building, FP&A Skills

Throughout my career, I have interviewed hundreds of candidates for dozens of roles, most of which were in FP&A. After evaluating the performance of these professionals personally, I was able to assess the qualities that either led them to their success or not, and it boiled down to three relatively straightforward criteria.

Read more

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