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Three days of predictions, insights, and advice from leaders in finance, sales, HR, supply chain and more
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FP&A Insights is a collection of useful case studies from leading international companies and thought leadership insights from FP&A experts. We aim to help you keep track of the best practices in modern FP&A, recognise changes in the ever-evolving world of financial planning and analysis and be well equipped to deal with them.
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By Jawwad Rasheed, Former EY UK FP&A Lead for Financial Services
Successful implementation of an FP&A software requires clarity on the selected tools, delivery methodology and business benefits that the solution aims to deliver. The six considerations set out below aim to improve success for FP&A implementation.
By Richard Reinderhoff, CFO/FP&A Expert and Independent Adviser
The financial numbers only show one side of the story. When FP&A professionals are presenting the complete story behind the numbers, soft data needs to be collected and incorporated. The big question is, what data and where is it?
While the world is slowly getting used to the post-pandemic life, the crisis revealed crucial learnings for how business and FP&A should interact. In this digest, we share tips on how to move towards an FP&A business advisor role, explain why systems thinking is a useful tool for finance business partners and describe how prescriptive analytics can level up the FP&A game.
By Ryan Sullivan, Principal at Collectiv
Ryan Sullivan is a Principal at Collectiv, a strategy and consulting firm focusing on applications of Microsoft Power BI and FP&A.
Ryan used his degree in Mathematics to form his core mindset as an FP&A analyst, before moving into business intelligence and eventually becoming a consultant.
Over the past few years, he has moved more into the back office to focus on management and operations. During his ten years of experience working in data analytics and FP&A, Ryan has built a reputation as a vocal advocate for empathy and building successful personal relationships as a key tenet of financial success.
It’s often been said that we’re in the agile phase of strategic thinking – the stage of strategic thought that focuses on flexibility in planning and rapid, quickly responding iterations - and it really can’t be emphasised enough just how important it is to build a responsive and agile FP&A strategy. It makes all the difference between an efficient and high-performing strategy and one that’s dead in the dust.
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