At this difficult and uncertain time of global Black Swans and Perfect Storms, the demand for modern FP&A knowledge is higher than ever before. Keeping this in mind, the team at International FP&A Board has decided to start sharing the insights from more than 200 Board meetings with our global professional community.

Over the last 4 years, we have held more than 200 meetings in 27 cities, 16 countries, and across 4 continents. It has been incredibly inspiring to see so many FP&A senior practitioners come together to shape the future of our profession. We would like to share this accumulated knowledge with the entire FP&A community.

One of the advantages of working in the domain of FP&A is that it provides excellent opportunity to learn about many aspects of the business. This enables the individual to, not only do the job with a more solid ground, but to also get a better picture of what and how is done in the other departments. Additionally, working closely with colleagues from different functions increases one’s visibility in the organization. But how do you get started in FP&A?

This FP&A Board Connect meeting will be delivered from France. Stéphanie Didier, Finance Director, and Tina Vermeyen, Digital Transformation Manager at Janssen, Johnson & Johnson will share their company's Predictive and ML forecasting journey.

Lukas Herbert,  FP&A Director ICMEA at Takeda, the speaker of the sixth and the facilitator of the seventh Dubai FP&A Board will share his insights on the subject. What is a journey to Zero-Based Budgeting? What lessons should be learned? Find out by joining this FP&A Board Connect.

The second FP&A Board Connect will be dedicated to the topic of "Zero-Based Budgeting in Multinationals".  Paul Harris, Experienced Commercial Finance Director and a member of the London FP&A Board will share his extensive ZBB experience with us. How does ZBB work in multinational companies?  What are the pros and cons? What is the most important success factor? Find out by joining this FP&A Board Connect short and insightful digital meeting.

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The first FP&A Board Connect digital meeting will be launched from Japan. Takeshi Murakami, Business Manager to CEO/President at Microsoft Japan, who is also a member of the Tokyo FP&A Board, will share his company's experience on "Using Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning for FP&A"

“Go to the cloud” has been a key building block in every global CIO’s digital strategy. However, as the CFO, do you find yourself getting into frequent arguments with them over the savings promised at the time of embarking on this journey?

Many of us have heard about promise of predictive analytics (PA) in machine learning (ML). Over 50% of organisations think that data science and ML are critical for success. At the same time, less than 20% of finance teams are deploying data science today. Why did this happen?

The Coca-Cola Company’s recent global digital transformation initiative within their McDonald’s Division (TMD) has increased the company’s confidence in their data and enabled them to make better decisions faster.