At uncertain times, the decision-making process should be agile, adaptable and analytical.
The modern Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function has an important role to play in enhancing decisions through the power of predictive analytics and driver-based modelling.
This forward-looking approach is the basis for flexible and dynamic scenario planning, quick re-forecasting, effective rolling forecast, etc.
Watch this webinar to learn how to leverage predictive planning methods for a better decision-making process.
Eric Smit, Vice President, Analytics, Global at SAP
Larysa Melnychuk, MD of FP&A Trends Group and Founder of the International FP&A Board
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.
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.
Matthijs Schot is currently CFO for Svitzer Europe at Maersk. He brings more than 15 years of FP&A experience & leadership across several industries. Matthijs has an MBA from Hong Kong UST and has working experience in Asia, Europe and the US.
He has extensive experience with Rolling Forecast, Business strategy, Performance management, Business Partnering and Investment Analysis of capital investment projects. Matthijs has a background in financial audit, corporate finance and has been involved in several M&A transactions.
Stefan Spiegel is currently CFO at the logistics and Rail Freight company SBB Cargo. He is a creative thinker and innovative leader, who brings in more than 20 years of experience across diverse industries as logistics, retail, wholesale, insurance, asset management, maintenance, production, transportation or energy.
As physicist and MBA graduate with additional educations in organizational development and Machine Learning, Stefan Spiegel is passionate about the development of new steering systems and organizational structures to improve overall profitability. For that he combines methods of operational research and predictive analytics with aspects of leadership behavior and organizational self-steering to transform a financial organization from a classical descriptive role towards a predictive, decision generating business driver.
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