The current business and economic environment is fundamentally different from before. As organisations continue to adapt to the world of "Unknown Unknowns", Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) role has become increasingly important. FP&A teams are adapting quickly and developing their new "playbooks" to prepare for the future.
At this digital event, senior professionals shared their insights and experience on how FP&A has been dealing with the new challenges.
Watch the recording to learn more about scenario planning, digital transformation, cash flow management, technological advances for FP&A and the latest trends in FP&A recruitment.
Larysa Melnychuk, MD of FP&A Trends Group and Founder of the International FP&A Board (Discussion Facilitator)
Larysa Melnychuk
Larysa Melnychuk is a passionate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) professional and influencer who has held senior FP&A roles at leading organisations before setting up the International FP&A Board in 2013. The Board is a global and well-recognised professional think-tank that aims to bring together the knowledge and experience of senior FP&A professionals and aid the development of best practice in the profession.
In the last three years, she successfully expanded the Board into 27 chapters in 16 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and North America.
Larysa is also the founder and CEO at the FP&A Trends Group (fpa-trends.com), the leading online resource for FP&A professionals. She chairs the Global AI FP&A Committee and runs a number of high-profile initiatives in the area of modern financial analytics.
Larysa holds a Master of Science degree in physics of materials and is a qualified chartered management accountant (CIMA), chartered global management accountant (CGMA) and is a holder of an FP&A certification. She is also a member of the exam content writing team for the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP) FP&A certification.
Larysa is also a passionate conference speaker and writes articles on various FP&A-related subjects.
Chris Grundy
Chris Grundy has been a marketing professional for over 25 years and a product marketing director in the Analytics team at SAP for over 14 years, with primary responsibility for the marketing of the organizations cost and profitability solutions to a Finance audience. As well as his marketing responsibilities, Chris is also a professionally accredited SAP Global Coach, working closely with colleagues to help them to visualize and achieve their personal goals.
Jose Nazario
Finance professional with more than 18 years of experience in several leadership roles in Global companies (Citigroup, Barclays, Portugal Telecom) across several geographies (London, New York and Portugal) and sectors (Banking and Telecom). Currently FP&A Head – Planning and CCAR (Director) in the Global Consumer Bank (GCB) business in Citibank, in New York, responsible for the Long Term Planning and Stress Testing/CCAR for GCB across North America, Asia, and Mexico.
David Moreira
CFO at Motesque Inc.
David has more than 15 years of experience in operating and scaling global high growth technology companies. His business industry experience spans SaaS, ecommerce, subscription models, omnichannel, and FMCG. His job is to bring together the best finance experts, engineers, data scientists, and ethicists to solve some of the most challenging problems while leading corporations through technology.
The scope of his operational responsibilities at Amazon includes building and leading teams, FP&A, managing end-to-end digitalization projects, strategic planning, working capital management, accounting, risk management, internal audit, legal, operations, tax and treasury.
Previously, he served as Senior Finance Controller - Group Investments, for Zalando in Berlin, where he led the coordination of capital allocation in Europe. Before Joining Zalando, David served as Finance Manager for one of the fastest growing startups in CEE region. He has extensive private and public company experience, and did external consulting and advisory to several firms.
He holds a CS50 computer science certification from Harvard, and a PhD in Finance from the University of Economics in Prague. He is a regular visiting lecturer of corporate finance in few EU Universities.
Mikaël Deiller
Mikaël Deiller is Senior Director of the Finance & Accounting divisions of Michael Page and Michael Page Interim Management. In addition to this function, he regularly leads internal and external Assessment Centers. His 15 years of experience within PageGroup also led him to participate between 2007 and 2010 in the launch of the Michael Page office in Luxembourg where he structured and developed the "Banking & Financial Services" division. Prior to joining PageGroup, he worked for a Big 4 firm on Organization and Human Capital consulting assignments.
Med Ahmadoun
Leading Financial Analysis and Accountability, Financial Policy and Standards, PSAS Consolidation and Budget Planning for Education Sector in Ontario
Prior experience of 15 years in Financial Services in Insurance, Investments, Compliance, Operations in Multinational Corporations.
Appointed by Lieutenant Governor and Cabinet Ministers as board member of the Provincial School Authorities
Bachelor of Computer Science from Ryerson University, Toronto
Master of Business Administration from MIT, Cambridge, MA
Certificate in Senior Executives Advanced Finance and Accounting Program at CPA Canada
Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy from MIT Sloan school of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Management Professional Designation, PMP from the Project Management Institute.
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