FP&A Trends Digest: Issue #41
Dear colleagues,
While the world is slowly getting used to the post-pandemic life, the crisis revealed crucial learnings for how business and FP&A should interact. In this digest, we share tips on how to move towards an FP&A business advisor role, explain why systems thinking is a useful tool for finance business partners and describe how prescriptive analytics can level up the FP&A game.
If you would like to learn more about the latest trends and developments in FP&A, register for our webinar by following the link at the bottom of this digest. At this webinar, we will share with you the results of 2021’s global survey which has been based on the responses of more than 340 finance professionals.
Enjoy the issue and stay safe!
Kind regards,
Larysa Melnychuk
CEO and Founder
FP&A Trends Group &
International FP&A Board
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The best FP&A teams align data with corporate strategy and can effectively communicate numbers to non-finance partners. What skillsets do you require for the new FP&A Business Advisor role? Listen to the FP&A Director from Unit4 to learn how to transform your reports and analytics into powerful knowledge assets. This webinar also dives into the value-add roles within FP&A and how they can influence and shape an organisation.
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By Shiva Vilayanur
A holistic understanding of the system in which our business partners operate is indispensable for comprehending how to always stay at the cutting-edge. Systems thinking helps with this understanding. In this article, you will find out what the concept of systems thinking is, which basic tools can be used and how these tools can be applied in a real-life finance business partner scenario.
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By Stefan Spiegel
It is no longer enough for FP&A to explain the whys, a modern FP&A professional is now expected to give direct recommendations to management. In this 7-minute presentation, Stefan Spiegel, CFO at Swiss Railway Freight Logistics (SBB Cargo AG), explains how predictive analytics helped his company reveal some interesting insights for the optimisation of resource planning.
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We have recently finalised the 2021 FP&A Trends Survey and would like to share with you the latest results on how FP&A is developing in different parts of the globe. There are many encouraging signs and also a number of warnings for FP&A professionals. Register for this webinar to learn more about the current state of FP&A.
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