As organisations continue to adapt to the world of "Unknown Unknowns", Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) has become increasingly more important. FP&A teams have to be agile and adapt quickly.

The role of the finance leader is changing. Before long, your colleagues may see you more as a journalist or storyteller — able to unearth critical facts, share a compelling narrative, and deliver the headlines that your decision-makers need today. But how's this possible?

In today’s world, companies need more than ever fast insights to make the appropriate critical moves. Unfortunately, current BI tools through dashboards report ‘what’ happened and does not help to understand the ‘why’.

Suppose you were asked to distil your entire business strategy into a single graph or visualisation; how would you choose to show it?

FP&A Trends Webinar will be held on 24 June at 5:30 PM BST to discuss myths and misconceptions of Rolling Forecast and FP&A Scenario Planning.

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.