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.

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.

In the last years, the digital transformation had an accelerated impact not only on improving customer experience but also on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes. This article gives insights into an innovative finance investment controlling project recently created at Zalando. The project is a digital platform and process called internally “Investment App” developed in an agile approach, to supervise large capital expenditures across Zalando business units.

What could Beyond Budgeting mean for your enterprise — and what benefits are available if you move past traditional command-and-control approaches to finance? With the right technology, companies will be better equipped to operate in a more agile way and achieve their financial goals.

Today, the tools that are being offered are smart enough that with a few inputs and financial insight, you are able to achieve amazing results. No need to be a data scientist to deliver these results. In this article, we discuss Roche's FP&A transformation and how the company started with small experiments before going big.

Organisations are increasingly adopting data-driven approaches to decision-making. This is natural, given the amount of data we now have on hand. All-in-all, data-driven is now perceived as the right way to do business. If you're doing "data-driven decision making," you're doing it right. But are you really?

The webinar will take place on 28 September at 11:00 AM PDT to discuss Managing Profitability in Uncertain Times.

What is your data literacy level? Everybody agrees data visualisation is powerful. This article will guide you through the most common and not-so-obvious data visualisation mistakes.

The ability to respond to rapid change and uncertainty requires agility and resilience. One of the biggest barriers between organisations and increasing their agility comes from unaligned top-down and bottom-up planning processes; FP&A plays a key role in balancing these two models. By successfully combining them, organisations can increase the quality and accuracy of their planning results.

FP&A Transformation has been taking place for some time, with teams moving from the Traditional FP&A Model to the extended FP&A (xP&A) Model. This represents a move from scheduled to on-demand planning, from one scenario to multiple scenarios and from finance to entire company planning.