Like many of you, I have spent significant time thinking about 1) What does FP&A do and 2) What should FP&A do?  My team and I landed on this very “packed” vision statement for our finance business partnering group.

Does a career purely in finance hinder your ability to be a senior finance leader? Making sideways movements such as becoming a project manager which still has a massive link back into finance, or moving to a strategy department which requires an understanding of the financial implications of company’s strategy can be beneficial.

What are the fundamental attributes of somebody in a finance manager role and what makes a good finance manager, and for that matter a good finance team?

The Singapore FP&A Board will meet on 29 November 2018 for the fifth time.

The second Geneva FP&A Board took place on 11 October 2016 and discuss Effective FP&A Organisations.

Agenda

The Launch of the Geneva FP&A Board took place on 15 June 2016. The first discussion was traditionally devoted to the Latest Trends in FP&A.

The fifth meeting of the Geneva FP&A Board was held in a beautiful new location at SPACES.

Tools and processes used by finance and FP&A (commercial management, billing, accounting, operational statistics, competitive intelligence, planning, budget, forecast, variance analysis, reporting) needs to be customized in order to achieve both efficiency and relevance. There is nothing like on the shelf tools.

Traditional budgeting has for a long time been criticized for encouraging counterproductive behaviour, hindering growth and wasting time on useless exercises. In recent years, the Beyond Budgeting methodology has gained ground as an alternative.

There is hardly any book on human relationships and influence that is as revered as Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. A great many leaders across the world have sworn by and largely benefited from this masterpiece.