Join the FP&A Trends webinar on the 28th of June to learn how to learn the key steps for successful FP&A Change Management.

Join the face-to-face Boston FP&A Board on June 15th to discuss and learn the FP&A Storytelling best practices.

In this video, Luis Parra, Financial Executive - CFO (most recently with Scotiabank), speaks about what involves being a true Finance Business Partner and using external benchmarks and business drivers in the planning process.

In this article, the author describes how the pandemic taught us to adapt and to react ‘on the fly’. The COVID pandemic was speeding up the adoption of digital technologies and was strongly transforming businesses in all industries, setting the trends for the future. The author outlines three phases of the pandemic and key lessons learned.

Global business has never experienced change at the scale and speed observed in recent years. FP&A teams need to be multi-skilled and multi-functional in this rapidly evolving environment. It allows them to develop new ‘playbooks’ to overcome challenging changes, taking on roles that are not typical for traditional management accounting.

In this edition of our newsletter, you'll find articles from industry experts on how to empower FP&A to fulfil its role as the voice of the business and bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap.

In this article, we explore why storytelling is, and has always been, an essential skill for FP&A and why it can be complicated to execute in practice.

In this video, Kevwe Ijatomi shares his experience using automation to drive value creation and different approaches to it.

FP&A expert has to help management make the right decisions. The expert must be able to perform a rigorous logical analysis of the consequences of the decision. This is why an FP&A specialist trained and experienced in visual cause-effect analysis can stand out from the crowd.

This article highlights the case study discussed at the AI/ML FP&A Committee Meeting #18. We invited Scott Campbell, Head of Center of Excellence - Finance & FP&A, to be a speaker, and he shared a robust case study from Philips on Digital Finance.