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FP&A Today

FP&A Today is the podcast for Financial Planning and Analysis. The weekly show dives into the challenges and opportunities within the world of FP&A, interviewing FP&A leaders, CFOs and other finance pros in order to give you the freshest insights and takeaways. Each week our top guests provide actionable advice about financial planning and analysis – from career goals to navigating challenges, and powerful Excel tips. Our weekly show provides unrivalled insights for navigating FP&A. FP&A Today is

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49:03

Anders Liu-Lindberg: Start with Why in FP&A

FP&A Today ·

2022/11/07

Anders Liu-Lindberg is the co-founder, partner and COO of the Business Partnering Institute and owner of the largest group dedicated to Finance Business Partnering on LinkedIn. He has ten years of experience as a business partner at global transport and logistics company Maersk. Within the world of FP&A, Anders can lay claim to being the most well known voice, blazing a trail for the function's ability to transform businesses. On LinkedIn, he publishes frank and combative insights to an audience

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45:26

FP&A Today, Episode 27, FP&A’s Big Lessons from AFP 2022

FP&A Today ·

2022/11/02

Did you miss the biggest FP&A gathering of the year? No worries. This special episode FP&A Today has got you covered . From the conference floor of the AFP (Association for Financial Professionals) in Philadelphia (23-26 October), Paul Barnhurst sums up some of the key themes of the conference talking to some of the participants and key speakers. More than 100 educational sessions tackled everything from using AI to improve FP&A forecasting, to skills in building trust, and essential drivers

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44:21

Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO: My Career in FP&A

FP&A Today ·

2022/10/25

Ben Murray is known to his 40,000 dedicated subscribers simply as “The SaaS CFO”. On the number one website for SaaS finance (thesaascfo.com) Ben provides blogs, research, courses and templates based on more than 25 years running finance teams . Ben is also hired by SaaS companies: from small, private technology firms to global multi-billion dollar public companies. But few people know that Ben honed his career in FP&A. Calling Financial Planning & Analysis "the key to strategic finance" Ben

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44:02

Nick Brignola: How FP&A Birthed $46 billion worth of...

FP&A Today ·

2022/10/18

In two companies, Nick Brignola, has shown the power of FP&A steering big ticket medical acquisitions. Firstly, almost a decade ago, Nick led FP&A at manufacturing medical company, Schering-Plough snapped up by Merck in a $41.1 billion deal. Then in June 2022, at Cloudmed, Nick’s FP&A team oversaw the Atlanta-based healthcare revenue recovery provider being acquired by Revenue cycle management company R1 RCM ( $4.1 billion). In this straight-talking episode Nick reveals the secret inside story of

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47:52

Larysa Melnychuk: Becoming the Agent for Change in FP&A

FP&A Today ·

2022/10/11

It is fair to say that Larysa Melnychuk did not have the expected start to a career which has since seen her emerge as the biggest transformational force in the FP&A profession Larysa was born in the former USSR in Siberia to a Ukrainian family. Opportunities in the USSR were limited. She was resigned to give up on her childhood dream of international travel (“It was absolutely certain that I would never be able to travel.”). Eventually, Larysa and her family moved to Ukraine where she studied

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43:58

CJ Gustafson: Gaining FP&A Mastery in SaaS Rocket Ships

FP&A Today ·

2022/10/04

CJ Gustafson started as an M&A Advisory Associate at a Big Four firm digging into the finances of big tech or healthcare firms for large buyouts. This was followed by a switch to a large private equity firm where he “learned financial modeling to marry what I learned in consulting.” However, his stellar FP&A SaaS career (“moving from the funder to the funded”) began as he moved to a $500m-VC backed backup and data management platform. He set up the company’s first FP&A function. Though he would

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45:50

Gabriela Gutierrez: Using AI to Predict Revenues...

FP&A Today ·

2022/09/28

Gabriela Gutierrez is Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist at eBay Classifieds in Germany. Gabriela is one of our most international guests. Growing up in Ecuador, she did an MBA in Barcelona and studied in the US. She now works in Germany leading revenue forecasts for the core divisions of the online juggernaut eBay Kleinanzeigen. At eBay Kleinanzeigen (Kleinanzeigen is the German word for classifieds) she is responsible for revenue forecasting for 70% for the largest classified online

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45:30

Jon Laudie: From FP&A and Chill, to CFO

FP&A Today ·

2022/09/20

Jon Laudie has managed FP&A at some of the US’s most iconic companies: Netflix, subscription streaming service, Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world) 1800-Contacts, the world’s largest contact lens store, and Lucid, the visual collaboration suite. Building on his 15 years of experience in FP&A, in August 2022 Jon was announced as the new CFO of Zerorez, a $150M-revenue leader in residential and home services (using non-toxic products) which operates in 70 markets. Jon

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42:53

Howard Tunnicliffe: How FP&A Drives Revenue at The...

FP&A Today ·

2022/09/13

Howard Tunnicliffe studied chemistry originally. Once he realized he “wasn’t the greatest experimental chemist ever” he made a switch to finance. It was during an audit contractor role at US tech company Dell in 2007 that his eyes were opened to an unseen part of finance: the “rockstars of FP&A”. He saw FP&A as a place which joined “psychology” with the “nuts and bolts of how companies actually make money”. Howard is now Head of FP&A in the subscriptions business at The Economist. The newspaper

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57:32

Budgeting and Forecasting: All your Questions Answered

FP&A Today ·

2022/09/06

In this special LinkedIn Live/ FP&A Today, join Paul Barnhurst and our all-star panel to answer your questions for budget season based on their decades of experience. 1) The best piece of advice you give - or have been given for a successful budget process over your career? 2) Top Down or Bottoms Up Budgeting? 3) Should we move beyond budgeting? 4) The role AI can play in budgeting? 5) What do you do when leadership comes up with unrealistic numbers? 6) How do you incorporate and manage your

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56:30

What Gen Z Wants in FP&A

FP&A Today ·

2022/08/30

What does Generation Z Want from FP&A? Between them, college students Gabriel Valentin Navarro, Charlee Wambolt, and Derek Baker secured FP&A and finance internships at companies as diverse as Credit Suisse, Clark Construction, Amex, Expedia, Regeneron, and SavviLegal. In this special episode we explore the experiences of a Gen Z cohort experiencing work in FP&A for the first time. In this special episode we meet guests: Gabriel Valentin Navarro , Intern at American Express (University of

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48:24

John King: Inside the Success of FP&A at Walmart

FP&A Today ·

2022/08/23

John King, Senior Manager, Analytics & Insights, Private Brands at Walmart reveals how the largest US retailer makes use of a “firehose” of data. This amounts (according to some estimates) to 2.5 petabytes of unstructured data from 1 million customers every hour. Walmart’s FP&A unit ensures this potentially limitless information provide instant business decisions for the US retail giant. First John explains his path to being an FP&A leader, starting as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS

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34:13

Jamie Genge: Winning Big with Monte Carlo analysis in...

FP&A Today ·

2022/08/17

More FP&A teams should take advantage of the secret power of Monte Carlo simulations, argues Jamie Genge, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Genge runs FP&A at the NPL which employs 775 scientists to provide research in science, engineering and technology to support scientific and commercial innovation in the UK. Some of the world’s most significant innovations have origins at NPL, including radar; packet switching, the forbearer of the internet;

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18:28

FP&A Today: Matthew Bernath, Host of The Financial...

FP&A Today ·

2022/08/09

Matthew Bernath, based in South Africa, has been a financial modeler for 15 years. Such was his thirst to learn best practices in the field, he set up a podcast, The Financial Modelling Podcast. Eighty episodes and 100,000 followers later The Financial Modelling Podcast is now ranked as one of the top finance podcasts. Matthew is head of data ecosystems at Shoprite. In his previous role, Matthew steered the data analytics capability of Rand Merchant Bank, building a Rand-wide data ecosystem. He

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30:09

Lance Rubin: Becoming the World’s Next Top Financial...

FP&A Today ·

2022/08/02

Lance Rubin is one of the world’s leading experts on financial models. He has created thousands of models for some of the biggest companies and literally wrote the instruction manual on financial modeling as a certified trainer for the Financial Modeling Institute. In this wide ranging interview Lance reveals the secrets to successful financial modeling: -How to Instantly Improve your Financial Modeling -Why you need to build and Treat a Financial Model like your House -The Best Resources to Learn

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39:51

Christian Wattig: Getting from Good to Great in FP&A

FP&A Today ·

2022/07/26

Christian Wattig is one of the world’s leading experts in FP&A having led teams at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Squarespace. Today Christian is FP&A Solution Architect, Datarails, and manages the top-rated FP&A Bootcamp explicitly designed for professionals who work full-time and want to ramp up their FP&A game. In this wide-ranging interview Christian provides actionable advice for any FP&A professional: ➡How FP&A can help marketing attribution ➡The need for FP&A to embrace Gray Areas ➡The

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46:46

Kathy Svetina: The Fractional CFO’s Inspiring Guide...

FP&A Today ·

2022/07/19

From a family of entrepreneurs, Kathy Svetina was always going to run her own business. Kathy first took financial planning and analysis roles at big companies such as AON and Wolters Kluwer for more than a decade. Then, Kathy founded Newcastle Finance, providing Fractional CFO services – supplying financial expertise to startups and fast-growing companies not yet able to justify a full-time CFO and facing growing pains. Kathy uniquely serves women-owned businesses (achieving $1M to $10M in annual

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26:56

Aliyyah Abdullah: How to Succeed with Supply Chain Value

FP&A Today ·

2022/07/14

Aliyyah Abdullah is Strategic and Operational Finance Leader, Universal Foods Limited. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Aliyya began studying management, which she describes as “closer to psychology”. Aliyya only shifted careers to finance when a friend told her about an opportunity. After getting a degree in accounting, she specializes today in working with top SMEs in finance in the food and beverage industry, most recently at Universal Foods Limited – maker of Charles Chocolates, Sunshine Snacks and

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49:59

Carl Seidman: FP&A as the Great Anticipator

FP&A Today ·

2022/07/12

Carl Seidman is an FP&A Leader who works with Fortune 500 companies providing advice and strategy on best practices and scaling FP&A. In this interview Carl discusses: His background in turnaround and restructuring of businesses His “first retirement” from business at 32, which formed the basis of a TEDx Talk (519,000 views and counting). Setting up his own business focused on FP&A advice to the Fortune 500 Why successful FP&A always means anticipating Why large companies do not always have the

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33:24

Anna Oblakova: 50 Shades of FP&A Maturity

FP&A Today ·

2022/07/05

Anna Oblakova has spent 15 years in FP&A - it is the only job she ever wanted. She started her career in large Russian companies. Beginning her career at VMHY Holding her first taste of FP&A was being pushed into the deep end of M&A, due diligence and business valuations. Future accomplishments include building an FP&A function from scratch at Bank Zenit where she eventually managed a team of 10 FP&A professionals. Following a career break, Anna moved to France where she is manager of FP&A at

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