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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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52:05

Jack McCullough: Rock Star CFOs and Psychopath CEOs

FP&A Today ·

2023/08/08

“The male prison population in the United States is about 15% psychopaths. So if, if you’re a warden and you work all day with prisoners, and then at the end of the day you go to some award ceremony honoring local CEOs, you’re probably interacting with a similar number of psychopaths at each event." Jack McCullough – President of CFO Leadership Council and 26-time CFO. Jack MCcullough’s background gives him an unprecedented perspective on financial leadership. Having started hist career at Big Four

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41:09

Robin Kiziak: There’s nothing funny about Finance

FP&A Today ·

2023/08/01

Robin Kiziak is Financial Controller and Finance Business Partner at VF Corporation (home of outdoor brands Vans, North Face and Timberland). Previously he has been a finance business partner at Hotel Chocolat and UK home improvement leader, Wickes. He also runs the website, There’s Nothing Funny About Finance which aims to move finance away from stereotypes (think Dr No or Beancounters). In this episode Robin reveals how he has used humor to disarm tension in meetings and become a finance business

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49:31

Tom Hood: FP&A and Accounting: “The Great Join”

FP&A Today ·

2023/07/25

Tom Hood is one of the most influential leaders in accounting. The Executive Vice President, Business Growth and Engagement, at American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA has been named the Second Most Influential Person in Accounting since 2011 by Accounting Today Magazine (only pipped to the post by AICPA CEO Barry Melancon). In giving him their award the publication cited his “legendary energy, imagination and ability to foresee the future, and focusing them specifically on

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47:43

FP&A For Startups - with Jake Luerkens and Connor...

FP&A Today ·

2023/07/18

Jake Luerkens and Connor Frischmeyer are co founders and partners at Auxo Partners, a finance advisory firm that helps startups make better decisions and grow strategically. They have been in "the sidecar" as companies scaled from $2m to $50m, providing internal finance, FP&A, capital markets advisory and SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) support. In this episode: When should startups think about bringing in fractional FP&A services The rise and fall of SPACs (including a

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47:33

Why Excel is the hottest esport on the planet –...

FP&A Today ·

2023/07/11

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to modelll! Broadcast on ESPN, watched by tens of thousands of people around the world, and featured across CNN,BBC, ITV, and The Atlantic, the Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC) is the hottest esport on the planet. If you ever wanted to apply for the Excel Modeling World Cup against top stars, feature on ESPN, or wonder if you have what it takes, this is the must-listen to episode of the year. Chief Operating Officer of the FMWC, Maksims Sičs reveals the

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40:49

When FP&A Meets Treasury with Mike Richards

FP&A Today ·

2023/07/04

When FP&A Meets Treasury with Mike Richards “Spend 10 minutes a week on yourself. Nobody else is going to take charge of your career except for you. If you sit back, you are going to lose.” Mike Richards, CEO & Founder of The Treasury Recruitment Company, has helped professionals in the US, UK and Europe find dream treasury roles at companies such as Chanel, IKEA and Porsche for two decades. Mike also hosts the popular podcast, The Treasury Career Corner Podcast which has seen 250 treasury guests

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53:33

Jenny Fuss, CFO, Boart Longyear: Swimming in...

FP&A Today ·

2023/06/27

“You can throw me in any water. Stormy, cold, or hot and I’ll start swimming.” And swimming is exactly what Jenny Fuss did. Jenny Fuss, CFO of Boart Longyear, talks about the challenges of international experience, the importance of having a diverse set of skills in an FP&A team and how to achieve storytelling and influencing in FP&A. Originally from a small town in Germany, Fuss wanted experience of working and living abroad. When the opportunity to move to become a CFO of a joint venture in

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46:11

Wassia Kamon: The power behind Powerball on doing...

FP&A Today ·

2023/06/20

Wassia Kamon built FP&A from the ground up at Intralot, a state lottery vendor behind the US Powerball lottery (as an insider she couldn’t play the lottery for nine years). And Wassia knows something about winning against the odds. She arrived in the US aged 17. As she points out “only 3% of people getting a CPA are black”. Wassia says: “Growing up in the Ivory Coast I was not a minority. Coming to the US I had to learn what it was to be a minority.” She started posting regularly on LinkedIn after

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44:57

Paul Barnhurst: The Inside Story of The FP&A Guy’s...

FP&A Today ·

2023/06/13

Today's guest is…Paul Barnhurst. Usually sitting in the presenter’s chair, this special edition sees Paul Barnhurst, aka The FP&A Guy (and host of FP&A Today), reveal the highs and lows from his storied career in FP&A at American Express, Solera, and DigiCert. Guest host is Annette deYoung, FP&A Solutions Consultant at Datarails, herself an FP&A veteran at companies including manufacturer, JL Clarke. Highlights? Discover a rookie error that saw Paul deliver bonuses to the worst performers (yes,

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52:00

Danielle Stein Fairhurst: Using Excel for Business...

FP&A Today ·

2023/06/06

Danielle Stein Fairhust literally wrote the book on Excel and Financial Modeling. Well two books, actually. Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling and Financial Modeling in Excel for Dummies. Here, the Excel MVP from Australia provides her secrets to financial modeling. Her road to financial modeling after traveling for seven years, and leaving investment banking Why Excel is so crucial for businesses Budgeting and forecasting vs financial modeling How she was commissioned to write

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51:03

Breaking Bad: Getting to Beyond Budgeting

FP&A Today ·

2023/05/30

Bjarte Bogsnes has worked with companies, from IKEA, H&M,Pernod Ricard, Volvo and Equinor (Scandinavia’s largest company). His approach, “Beyond Budgeting” involves wholesale rethinking about budget approaches. In today’s episode, Bogsnes rails against the “misery” and “borderline unethical behavior” in traditional budgeting within companies, as he talks about the seachange happening in businesses. He talks to Paul Barnhurst as he publishes his new book, This Is Beyond Budgeting: A Guide to More

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42:53

How to improve your Excel skills

FP&A Today ·

2023/05/23

In this special FP&A Today episode, Paul is joined by three Excel experts whom Microsoft has recognized as Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). Learn why it is important to up your Excel game and how you can do it. Below check out offers (saving $$$) from our MVPs exclusively for listeners of FP&A Today. Get all your questions about Excel answered by the expert panel: George Mount, Founder Stringfest Analytics Celia Alves, CEO, Solve and Excel Consulting Mark Proctor, Excel Off The Grid In

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52:33

Syed Nadeem: Learning from your Failure in FP&A

FP&A Today ·

2023/05/16

Syed Nadeem is a top finance leader in Saudi Arabia. But the director of Budgeting at listed telecom company, Zain KSA, says he considers his previous failures as pivotal to his position today. He says: “When I was young [and experiencing failure] I felt so disappointed I thought my world was going to end. Sometimes you don't get a promotion and you see other peers getting a promotion. I struggled after getting my CMA (Certified Management Accountant). Sometimes you are not getting good

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49:08

“MoneyBall for FP&A”: Maura Feddersen on Winning in...

FP&A Today ·

2023/05/09

Maura Feddersen, behavioral research manager at Swiss Re, is an economist who previously worked in the economics team of two of the Big Four Accountancy firms: PwC and KPMG. She got switched on to behavioral economics as “I always felt there was something a bit missing in economics. [Economics] assumes that people act quite rationally…and that was just not the case. Behavioral economics brings together the economics, as well as insights from psychology, to try to assess how humans really make

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43:52

Mikus Krams: Why We Scrapped Budgets At Chili Piper

FP&A Today ·

2023/05/02

Are you starting to think about your budget for the next year? Stop right now, argues Mikus Krams. As a former senior director of strategy and finance at Chili Piper, he described budgets as a shackle — you’ll be held prisoner to the assumptions you make for the next year. In this episode, Mikus Krums, the B2B Saas finance leader turned co-founder of Trace Space, says budgets are unlikely to be relevant for small agile companies. He tells Paul Barnhurst: “Let's say you're doing some activity and

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48:03

CEO Scott Stouffer: Can FP&A Get your Go-to-Market...

FP&A Today ·

2023/04/25

“I would like to see FP&A drive the planning process for go- to-market just because I think they will have a better natural understanding of what it means to actually build a plan.” Scott Stouffer, a former engineer, is a serial entrepreneur and founder. Currently he is CEO and Founder at scaleMatters, the world’s first Go-to-Market Optimization Platform. Previously, he executed the sale of Salsa Labs, a non profit CRM to PE firm Accel-KKR at a period of $12MM annual revenue and 70 employees. In

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46:49

Silicon Valley Bank: Finance teams in the eye of the...

FP&A Today ·

2023/04/18

The second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history created a storm for CFOs and their finance teams during a panic-induced 48 hours in March. It only ended as regulators took control of Santa Clara, Calif.-based SVB and a dramatic intervention by financial regulators. In this special edition of FP&A Today, meet those in finance and FP&A who saw the events at Silicon Valley Bank first hand. Understand how the banking crisis played out and how ongoing ripples continue to impact everyone in FP&A and how

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54:01

The FP&A’s Guide to Winning in the Fractional CFO Galaxy

FP&A Today ·

2023/04/11

“I am definitely starting to see more people with an FP&A background becoming fractional CFOs.” Michael King, founder of The CFO Accelerator, coaches hundreds of fractional CFOs and accountants in building “6 and 7-figure advisory firms”. King arrives on the bustling fractional CFO scene at a time when demand for part-time finance chiefs working for several companies is higher than ever. In King’s words in the next decade a small business having a fractional CFO will be just as common as

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58:38

FP&A vs. Accounting: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble

FP&A Today ·

2023/04/04

“I must admit, when I was doing accounting, I never liked my FP&A colleagues. In fact, as a matter of at times, I hated them. I thought they didn’t understand accounting. They always push to reduce the number of days it takes to close the books when they have very little clue what's going on.” Abdul Khaliq, Group Financial Controller, at Abu Dhabi National Hotels In our 50th episode of FP&A Today, we bring together an all-star guest list who have had experience working as both accountants and in

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49:29

Alison Allsopp: Building the NHS back better and...

FP&A Today ·

2023/03/28

“It’s like a fuse being blown. You can push as much power as you want through the device, but if the fuse is gone, it isn't going to work. That's exactly how I felt.” Alison Allsopp is Head of FP&A at NHS Supply Chain, a crucial cog in the UK’s National Health Service. Prior to this, Alison was promoted nine times in her previous role at credit card company, Capital One. Despite (or maybe because of) this rapid rise up the finance ranks, Alison faced prolonged self-doubt and feelings of “imposter

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