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The FP&A Trends Webinar: FP&A Integration: The Winning Formula of Harmonising Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning Processes
October 19, 2022

The webinar was proudly sponsored by Wolters Kluwer and
its award-winning CCH® Tagetik expert solution for Corporate Performance Management:

Organisational agility often faces a considerable barrier: unaligned top-down and bottom-up planning processes. It happens when financial, operational and strategic planning processes are not harmonised. When we experience this problem, we always wonder: 

  • How can we bridge this planning gap?
  • How can we harmonise all essential planning processes by going beyond finance to Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A)?

The answer may be Integrated FP&A. A crucial framework for planning in the world of unknown unknowns, Integrated FP&A helps organisations to close the gap between unaligned vertical and horizontal planning processes.

Watch the recording of the FP&A Trends webinar to learn more about FP&A Integration: the winning formula of harmonising top-down and bottom-up planning processes from senior practitioners and thought leaders.

The Panel:

  • Timo Rantala, Head of Integrated Business Planning at Tikkurila
  • Garrett Dennie, Vice President of Finance at Linde/Praxair Canada, Toronto FP&A Board member
  • Michael Conley, Technology Director, CCH Tagetik at Wolters Kluwer
  • Hans Gobin, 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/

Garrett Dennie

Corporate Problem Solver that forcefully resolves complex critical problems, provides analytical decision support and proactive operations leadership optimizing planning, process, execution, and profit.

A Leader in cross-functionally integrating, and leading Finance, Supply Chain, Buying/Marketing, and Operation functions.

Successful in leading the creation and transformation of both small and large teams, driving higher efficiency and profit.

20 years experience in Finance, FP&A and Supply Chain with large corporations (Retail, Pharmacy, Power/Energy, Industrial Gases).

Advocate for Long Range – Integrated Planning.

Timo Rantala

IBP enthusiast with 15 years of experience in planning. Integrated Business Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE), Supply Chain Planning, Process Development, Business Transformation.

Experience working in multinational matrix organizations in corporate and regional roles, balancing the needs of different functions, business units and organizational levels from strategy to execution. Part-time senior researcher in academic IBP-project. Member of the board of STO.

Timo Rantala’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timo-rantala/

Michael Conley

Michael Conley is a seasoned Supply Chain professional with over three decades of experience in both industry and management consulting. His career spans industries from Food & Beverage, Retail, and Consumer Goods to Electronics, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing, plus extensive work in Corporate ESG within the technology sector.

Michael has robust, end-to-end expertise across the Supply Chain, including Forecasting & Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Supply/Inventory Planning & Management, Manufacturing & Operations, Logistics & Warehousing and Procurement. Recognized for leading enterprise-wide transformations that deliver maximum operational and financial value, Michael consistently drives disparate functional groups into cohesive, connected planning teams.

Michael Conley’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conleyaz

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