There is no doubt that the COVID-19 crisis brought a huge challenge for any business but it also brought a unique opportunity. FP&A professionals continue to play an essential part in navigating through the uncertainties.

In this digest, you will learn the biggest advantages that the FP&A team have in a post-pandemic business world, why business acumen is a must-have for all finance professionals, and how to optimise your decision-making process.

Although FP&A is at the forefront of this transformation journey, there are still a lot of questions and concerns. How do organisations successfully automate their financial reports and face the ever increasing business demands? Who are the future-ready FP&A professionals and what skills do they need?

Check out this digest – and discover the answers!

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.

In this digest, we will look into keeping the balance between analytical depth and high-level storytelling, the metrics to use to measure the effectiveness of your FP&A team, and driving business performance with artificial intelligence.

Eric Hoffer, an American philosopher, is famously quoted as saying “in a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.” Although the concept of "growth mindset" was coined almost 7 years ago, it is more relevant than ever before. In this digest, we dive deeper into what a growth mindset means for FP&A as well as exploring ways to identify the right drivers for your planning process.

There are a lot of trends in FP&A that are being discussed but not implemented. In this digest, we would like to focus on how you can transform knowledge into action. We will discuss why predictive analysis, despite all the benefits, is still not widely used and how FP&A can efficiently leverage technology.