The FP&A Trends Webinar: Digital FP&A: The Key Steps to Fostering a Data-Driven Culture

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October 12, 2021

The webinar was proudly sponsored by:

Data is the new currency for companies of all sizes and industries. A key function of effective FP&A is to create a data-driven decision-making culture throughout the enterprise. Data management is, therefore, a crucial part of FP&A's agenda.

So how can we create an organisational culture based on data analytics?

Watch the recording to discover the key steps to fostering a data-driven FP&A culture.

The Panel:

Gary Cokins, Analytics Thought Leader and Author
Nahuel Rozas Delpit, Finance Director, Head of FP&A EMEA at Medtronic
Jacob Joseph, Director, Product & Technology at Prophix Software
Larysa Melnychuk, MD at FP&A Trends Group (Discussion Facilitator)

Nahuel Rozas Delpit

Finance Director, Head of FP&A EMEA at Medtronic

Nahuel is leading the FP&A Team of Medtronic EMEA for the last 5 years being responsible for Financial Planning Activities, Risk and Opportunities analyses for the EMEA Leadership Team, and looking after the transformation of the FP&A function together with Global Stakeholders and Centers of Expertise (CoE).

Prior to this role, Nahuel started his career at Dell Computers holding analyst roles in Paris and London. He then joined ev3 a Medical Device Startup to build the International FP&A department. After the successive acquisitions of ev3 by Covidien, and then by Medtronic, Nahuel enjoyed Finance Business Partnering roles for different BUs (Neurovascular, Gastro-Intestinal, Lung Surgery) where he worked on a broad range of projects to transform financial performance and operations.

Nahuel is passionate about supporting growth initiatives and he specializes in using scenario planning analytics to support executive leaders decisions and drive financial performance.

Jacob Joseph

Jacob is a Director of Product and Technology who helps build products used by FP&A departments to solve reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes with productized solutions.

He is a passionate product leader that believes software should be designed to solve real problems for users so they can spend time on high value tasks and make better decisions. He is strong user advocate and obsessed with user experiences.

Jacob worked for Prophix software for over 13 years in Customer Support, Professional Services and Product Management. Jacob currently leads Technical Product Management, User Experience, Data Science and Cloud Operations teams. Jacob holds a degree in Computer Engineering and Management from McMaster University.

Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management improvement methods and business analytics. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com

Gary received a BS degree with honours in Industrial engineering and operations research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA with honours from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC Link-Belt Corporation and then served as an FMC division Financial Controller and Operations Manager. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then in 1988 with KPMG consulting. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of HP. From 1997 until 2013 Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a leading provider of business analytics software.

His three most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics, Predictive Business Analytics and Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management. His books are published by John Wiley & Sons.

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.

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