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After an absence of almost two years, I was looking forward to joining the London FP&A Board meeting, where a group of senior finance professionals met in person, many experiencing their first face-to-face industry event since the initial lockdown in the UK back in March 2020.

The top 7 trends shaping FP&A today can be grouped into 3 key building blocks: Process, Technology, and People.

The building blocks are a 3-part recipe to create the perfect cake. Each part will help to curate a strong finance professional and a successful cross-functional FP&A team.

The cloud holds some exciting prospects for the development of cash flow planning. It will bring access to Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics on a scale previously only accessible to data scientists.

Research shows that only 30% of change programs are successful.

So what exactly can we expect to see in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) in the coming years? This digest aims to provide some answers to that question. It is devoted to the top trends shaping FP&A in 2022 and beyond. Below, you will find an eBook and a short video presentation identifying the key factors changing FP&A today, along with three articles delving deeper into them.

In this uncertain, technology-driven world, surveys conducted by the FP&A Trends Group and not only have identified three trends shaping FP&A Technology in 2022: Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, Driver Based Planning (DBP) and Integrated Analytic Platforms.

When COVID struck, we paused our face-to-face meetings in 27 cities of 16 countries worldwide. However, we did not stop researching, debating, analyzing, and examining best practices during the two years of the pandemic; instead, we moved our meetings online.

As organisations get to grips with data and technology, now more than ever, we see the emergence and the importance of FP&A Storytelling. So how can we apply analytics, visualisation and dashboards for better FP&A Storytelling and what are the dos and don’ts of FP&A Storytelling?

In this series of blogs, I am looking at areas where FP&A departments must improve if they are to support organisation decision-making in this technology-driven age. In this blog, I’ll cover the new staffing roles that are essential.