Watch the recording of the Digital Middle Eastern FP&A Circle to hear insights from senior practitioners and thought leaders about their experiences on Digital AI/ML FP&A.

How do we move the dial from non-value add to creating value, and how can FP&A Business Partners help in driving the Value Creation agenda? The Digital Middle East & Africa FP&A Circle met in June 2022 to explore this subject in detail.

This article describes the main insights of the meeting.

According to FP&A Trends Survey 2022, there are two major problems today: 

1. When looking at immediate challenges, it can be difficult to justify ROI on FP&A technology against shorter-term sales. 

2. In some companies, FP&A is not considered to be an area for strategic investment.

How can this possibly be the case when especially cloud-based technology has been considered the saving grace of doing business during the pandemic?

In this digest, we have collected a range of content to make sure you are up to speed with Integrated FP&A. Below, you will find an article on aligning financial and supply chain teams; a guide to the steps involved in Integration; an article on closing complexity gaps; a summary of the PPE model; and two video case studies of how Integration can be achieved in practice.

Bruno Massera, CFO - Middle East at BRF, walked us through BRF's integrated finance journey from Traditional Excel-based Budgeting in 2018 to a Sales and Operations and Finance partnership supported by modern technology in 2022.

Watch the video to learn more insights from Bruno about FP&A Integration.

Watch a video to learn about the long journey Durga Srinivas Perisetti, Director FP&A and Operations Analytics at Juniper Networks, went through while gradually transitioning from Shared Service Center to Center of Excellence and the role of Integrated FP&A.

In a world of irrelevant budgets and inaccurate forecasts, scenario management has a vital role to play. Traditional planning approaches, which account for a single possible future, are no longer viable in a world dominated by uncertainty.

Instead, organizations must face the prospect of multiple futures, driven by an ever-changing business environment, beset by unpredictable events. It is only by adopting a fast and agile scenario management process that organizations can steer their way towards achieving their short and long term goals.

Organizations that implement scenario management framework are in a much better position to handle uncertainty.

At the webinar, we looked at the examples and key success factors for scenario management implementation.

How can automation maximize the value of FP&A in your business? 

The FP&A Trends webinar addressed key questions related to automation in FP&A. Where to start? What technology to use? How does the approach to automation change depending on the size of the organisation and the industry in which it operates?

This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the expert panellists in the "Maximizing the Value of FP&A Through Automation" webinar, as well as the results of our polling questions.

What are the key factors for success with Rolling Forecast?

In this short video, Nitu Agarwal, Vice President Finance at Thomson Reuters, explores the answer to this question.

In this series of 9 blogs, we will be looking at a number of areas that FP&A departments must address if they are to add value to the organisations they serve in this technology-driven age. This blog covers the role of the FP&A Analyst.