Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Centers of Excellence (CoEs) are an increasingly potent solution to a very timely challenge: How to improve the analytics and decision support capabilities of FP&A, when finance is under continued pressure to do more with less.
Nilly Essaides
Nilly Essaides is the Managing Director of Groups, Research & Insight at NeuGroup.
In the past, she was the Senior Research Director of Finance/EPM/FinOps Advisory at The Hackett Group. In that capacity, she devised quantitative surveys, analysed findings, built models, authored research reports, blogs, delivered webcasts, presentations and facilitated peer-to-peer exchange.
Ms. Essaides has nearly 30 years of experience researching, writing, and speaking about finance topics, with a focus on the way finance adds value to the enterprise through excellence in financial management and planning processes. Previously she led the FP&A practice at The Association for Financial Professionals.
Ms. Essaides is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. She’s a prolific blogger with thousands of LinkedIn followers, and writes for external publications such as Digitalist Magazine. In addition, she co-authored a book about the internal transfer of best practices, If Only We Knew What We Know (Simon & Schuster, 1998).