Changing consumer behaviours, supply chain shifts, and innovations in data analytics have pushed FP&A professionals to reconsider their approach to revenue planning processes. Those processes are both strategic and operational and require complete visibility on all data and drivers.

Every FP&A professional has an active role to play in business partnering, supporting the leadership team to aid decision making. To enable this, the FP&A team must be positioned to inform the future impact of decisions that are being made now. This requires understanding what the company’s strategy is, where the company is heading, what part your business unit/function play to get there and what are the KPIs on which they are being measured.

In this 7-minute presentation, Rodolphe Aubin argues that FP&A transformation should be seen as an opportunity to generate much more value for the business rather than a threat. What is the formula to successfully deploy intelligent FP&A?

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

This FP&A Trends digest will share advice on how you can improve your financial modelling skills and also on how your FP&A can make their forecasts more influential. Furthermore, we would like to invite you to an engaging online conference that will take place in mid-June and will be dedicated to the new trends and innovations happening in FP&A.

How can we plan and forecast in an uncertain environment? One of the current challenges for FP&A professionals is that traditional planning methods are no longer sufficient for this turbulent period. This is where FP&A Predictive Planning and Scenario Planning come into play.

The Digital German & French FP&A Board will be held on June 17. Join us at 5:00 PM CEST to learn how to move From Traditional to Better and Beyond Budgeting.

Although there have been a large number of publications on the topic of strategy, only a small number of business leaders are confident that they can achieve 80% or more of their strategic goals. Why is this the case and how do we tackle this gap?

Companies nowadays are looking at using specialised FP&A solutions to help improve the accuracy and efficiency of the forecasting process. Depending on the maturity of the FP&A function, we can roughly divide companies into three levels of maturity in terms of their use of specialised FP&A solutions.

Now, more than ever, the FP&A profession stands to propel itself forward as the premier business partner for Commercial and Operational teams. While FP&A content trending today may center around technological advances, the focus herein will instead shift to the bedrock principle that defines the FP&A profession: striking the proper balance between analytical depth and high-level storytelling.