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.
Marco Singh
Marco 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.
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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.
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.
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.