The current business and economic environment are now fundamentally different. As organisations continue to adapt to the world of "Unknown Unknowns", FP&A’s role has become increasingly more important:
Budgets are long out of date and quarterly forecasts are less relevant.
Quick and flexible Scenario Planning and on-demand re-forecasting have become the "new norm".
FP&A teams are having to adapt quickly and develop new "playbooks" to prepare for the future.
The First Digital European (Germany and Benelux) FP&A Board discussed FP&A Digital Transformation: Moving from Traditional to Leading Stage.The speakers talked about FP&A transformation, driver-based planning, predictive and prescriptive analytics and the use of modern technology. During this digital event, we also discussed what skills are now required from FP&A professionals in the digital era.
Hans Gobin, Experienced FP&A Leader and International FP&A Board Ambassador
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.
For the last 6 years I Tanja Schlesinger currently holds the position of VP OneSource Business Intelligence at Deutsche Bahn Regio AG. She drives the digitaliziation of DB Regio FP&A processes by developping a Business Intelligence platform with the aim for a true value driver-based planning and analysis.
Striving for transformation by implementing a true digital culture. Tanja is currently successfully setting-up Data Management and Business Intelligence tools supporting her organization for faster and better decisions with Standard Reporting, Machine Learning and AI Use cases in a cloud environment. Tanja aims at a high level of transparency to better predict the effects of change in value drivers.
Tanja’s drive for growth from scratch to implementation, her entrepreneurial thinking and acting also in political settings as well as her wide knowhow in financial management of private and public companies make her proud to meet FP&A challenges concerning digitalizing its processes.
Thomas Lundell, FCCA, MBA
Thomas Lundell is the Sr. Director of EMEA Finance at NetApp, a Fortune 500 company with $6bn in annual revenue.
Before joining NetApp, Thomas held various finance positions at Unilever and Electrolux.
He holds a bachelor degree in Corporate Finance from Örebro University, Sweden, and MBA from University of Montana, USA.
Pascal Köth
Born in Aschaffenburg, Pascal studied economic sciences at the Schumpeter’s School of Business & Economics in North Rhine Westphalia. After his graduation, he gathered more than 12 years of experiences in recruitment helping people build careers and businesses. He built up regional and national departments and businesses in executive and management roles as well as in leadership functions. After assignments in Hessia, Baden Württemberg and North Rhine Westfalia he returned to Frankfurt for Robert Half in 2015. In his current role as Director at Robert Half Frankfurt he is providing “Full Service Solutions” combining staffing on temporary, interim and permanent basis with Managed Services, Outsourcing as well as Project Plannning, Management and Implementation.
Stéphane Bonutto
Stéphane Bonutto is currently the CFO Europe for Oerlikon Balzers. He is a seasoned leader, who brings over 25 years of experience and leadership in the automotive and machine industry. Prior to Oerlikon, he has worked in multinational Companies such as Schott Glas and Adam Opel AG, in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, where had the responsibility successively for Commercial Finance / Pricing and Manufacturing Finance.
During his career, he designed and implemented Finance Planning & Analysis tools and methods to drive the performance of the organizations under his responsibility. He is currently working on processes and organizational capability, to bring his Finance team to the next level. He is also driving the Finance side of the SAP implementation.
Eric Smit
Eric Smit is leading the Global Center of Excellence for Planning & Analysis. The COE team consist of senior advisors that help customers improve business results with solutions that integrate business intelligence, financial & planning and analysis, machine-learning and predictive analytics capabilities.
Eric has over 25 years of experience in delivering analytics and finance transformation to customers globally in various roles at SAP, Oracle and Hyperion. He has deep knowledge of the challenges organizations face within Finance like Reporting, Planning and Analysis, Profitability, Closing the books and Data Management. He has been instrumental in helping organizations understand the value of adopting best practices for a World-Class Finance, reducing Finance FTE’s and Finance cost, truly allowing finance to become a strategic partner to the business.
Eric was part of the original team to kick of the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) solution in 2016 with a particular focus on the planning functionality and has been instrumental in helping to make SAC one of the fastest-growing solutions today in SAP.
Eric holds a degree in Economics with a major in Management Information Systems and combines finance and accounting expertise with a deep understanding of both the functional and technical aspects of the SAP Analytics offering.
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