The Digital Swiss FP&A Board: Building Winning FP&A Teams
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Financial Planning and Analysis
FP&A Team Building

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. They also have had to develop whole new “playbooks” in order to prepare for the future and lead the organisation through these changes.

Watch this Digital FP&A Board recording to learn from the experienced panel of experts about how to build Winning FP&A Teams.

  • Maria Micu, Executive Director Finance at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
  • Laurent Claes, Group Controlling Director at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP (part of the Richemont Group), Geneva FP&A Board member
  • Svetlana Ryzhik, Finance Project Director at JTI (Japan Tobacco International)
  • Paolo Guerrieri, Senior Solution Architect at CCH Tagetik
  • Hans Gobin, Experienced FP&A Leader and International FP&A Board Ambassador (Discussion Facilitator)

Hans Gobin, FCCA, MBA

Finance Director with over 20 years of experience in Financial reporting (Internal, External, PLC, Board), FP&A, Performance Management, Systems Implementation, Multinational Project managements, Transformation & Change Management, M&A, BPO & SSC.

Experience working in different company sizes ranging from Start-ups to large PLC and PE backed and experience working in various different sectors including manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, FMCG & Practice.

Founder member of the London International FP&A board regularly delivering talks on FP&A related subject matters.

Hans Gobin's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-gobin-020118b/

Svetlana Ryzhik

Financial Leader with 25 years of experience with demonstrated records in FP&A, Strategic Planning, Cross functional processes redesign, post-acquisition business integration and Project Management. Particularly efficient in Stakeholders management and orchestrating complex discussions to reach alignment across different functions. Passioned to transfer data into actionable insights.

Proven successful experience in building “dream team” from the scratch. Strong team leader supporting personal and professional growth of team members. Worked in three countries and enjoyed working in very diverse international teams. Experienced in crisis management, effectively managed business in war conditions.

Laurent Claes

Laurent Claes is the Group Controlling Director at Yoox Net-a-Porter, part of the Richemont group, which owns several of the world's leading Maisons in the field of luxury goods, with particular strengths in jewellery and luxury watches.

Laurent, 44, is responsible for the consolidated FP&A Reporting and Analysis, Tech & Operations Controlling, as well as competitive analysis and benchmarking, both internal and external.

He previously held the role of Global FP&A Director at Cartier and Richemont Group FP&A manager. Prior to that, he was International Finance Manager for Carefusion, a medical device company which he joined after being on the management team for an ultimately doomed start-up and spent his formative FP&A years at Levi Strauss in Brussels and GE Capital in London.

Laurent received his Master’s degree from Antwerp University and has studied in the US (Middlebury College) and Japan (Jochi Daigaku).

He is married with two children and lives in Milan, Italy.

Maria Micu

Maria has 20 years capital markets and finance leadership experience, working on 2 continents. A qualified accountant (ACCA), she started her career in Big 4, auditing banks and financial institutions. Currently she is executive director in the Investment Management division of Zurich Insurance, acting as global Head of Business Performance Controlling and deputy CFO, in charge of the financial performance monitoring of the investment portfolio with teams located in 20 countries.

Paolo Guerrieri

Paolo is a Solution Architect for CCH Tagetik Switzerland, the Swiss Subsidiary of a global software vendor whose focus is Corporate Reporting Processes related to the CFO office.

During his career, Paolo led several projects related to financial reporting in a wide range of industries with specific focus in financial services as well as industrial Groups.

He started his career in Italy, at CCH Tagetik Headquarters. He then moved to France, contributing to successfully establish the local subsidiary. He also supported the development of the consulting teams in Benelux and in England. Since 2018, he’s based in Switzerland and working primarily with the Swiss team.

Paolo started off as an IT Engineer and subsequently attained Executive Master in Finance and Management Controlling. The mix of these two disciplines, together with his vast experience in a long list of projects, makes him a recognized expert in the sector of CPM.

He moved in the last years to a role in Pre-Sales, providing a key contribution to major sales cycles.

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