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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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47:53

After the Gold Rush: The $75M Operation behind...

FP&A Today ·

2026/02/23

The history-making USA Hockey won golds (and millions of fans in the process) at Milan’s Olympic Games. But behind the on-ice glory is a $75 million organization with a finance function as disciplined as its players. Kelly Mahncke , CFO of USA Hockey, joins Glenn Hopper and FP&A Today to pull back the curtain on what it takes to fund the gold-winning national hockey program — with business interests from memberships and sponsorships to restaurants and insurance. Kelly traces her own journey from

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53:10

How to ignore the loud numbers and listen for the...

FP&A Today ·

2026/02/20

Sahil Kamani, is a Berlin-based senior finance leader and FP&A professional at Ellie (Volkswagen Group), Starting at a credit rating agency in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis — inspired, fittingly, by a fascination with the documentary Inside Job — Sahil moved through regulation, capital markets, and an MBA before pivoting into operational finance In this episode: Being the person handing out credit ratings Cash burn and the KPIs that matter most in a turnaround What bankers and

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51:48

What an AI-Native General Ledger Means for FP&A: John...

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2026/02/16

John Glasgow, is the founder, CEO and CFO of Campfire AI native ERP with more than $100m in funding, built to help high growth companies close faster, get richer visibility from their accounting data, and scale. John brings his insights as an operator who has spent time in FP&A and strategic finance, including at Adobe and an executive at Invoice To Go, leading that finance company to a $625 million sale to bill.com. Campfire came out of firsthand frustration with legacy ERPs and a need to

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64:22

Perspectives from Controller, FP&A, CFO and Gartner:...

FP&A Today ·

2026/02/05

Marko Horvat has been a public accountant, Controller, head of FP&A and CFO, as well as VP in Gartner's research and advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation.In this episode he talks: Interplay IT and CISO and organizational politics (“if it runs on electricity, it’s ours”) CFO skillsets gap Real change in CFO’s Office with AI (audit pattern recognition to forecasting) Last mile transformation in finance Mindset, skillset, toolset

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45:46

35 Years in Finance and constant change: Troy...

FP&A Today ·

2026/01/29

Troy Anderson is CFO of Kelly Services, a staffing solutions provider to various industries, who has spent his career driving transformation across some of the most complex business environments. Before joining Kelly, he served as CFO at Universal Technical Institute, where he helped double revenue over five years through a mix of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he held senior finance leadership roles at Conduent, a $6billion player (bought by Xerox). Conduent

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49:22

The Future of the AI-Native ERP Stephen Hedlund, Rillet

FP&A Today ·

2026/01/21

Stephen Hedlund is head of finance at Rillet, an AI-native ERP which has raised over $100million from Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. In Steven’s words Rillet is “building the modern NetSuite.”In this episode: How Isaac Asimov’s Foundation helped me discover finance Experience from enterprise at Walmart to building startups Go-to-market (marketing) to Head of Finance Gillet The moat for leading ERPs and our strategy Being the ICP and marketing voice for Rillet “To succeed, planning alone

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60:29

Demystifying the Role of the CFO in Growth Stage...

FP&A Today ·

2025/12/22

Five-time CFO Rick Smith has led finance at companies including inVentiv Health Communications, Exos, Parchment, Solera Health before founding Bonfire advisory. He is also the author o fDemystifying the Role of the CFO in Venture and Growth Stage Companies, a no-nonsense approach to the topic. Reviews for the book include: “This book is a must-read if you want to understand how to scale a company as a CFO” and “Should be required reading for CEOs and PE people along with CFOs.”In this episode Smith

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47:23

Building a lean, mean, FP&A team from scratch –...

FP&A Today ·

2025/12/11

Preston Naegle started his career in private equity at Leavitt Equity Partners (founded by Michael Leavitt, the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Negale then moved into the operating world and for more than 2 years has led strategic finance and FP&A at a PE-backed Midway Mechanical Services in the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) industry at the company which has completed 15 acquisitions (3 in 2025 alone) within the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing sector

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72:13

Aligning Sales and FP&A: Adam Shilton

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2025/12/04

Glenn reconnects with Adam Shilton—who reveals the highs and lows of more than a decade selling to finance teams and what 134 deals in 36 months taught him about CFO challenges. The founder, writer, and speaker has now launched his own venture focused on helping entrepreneurs and solo business owners.My Experience selling finance software including SAP Bridging the Sales-Finance Divide: Why pipeline forecasts are inherently “fluffy” The Deposit Game-Changer: Why commission should only be paid on

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49:44

From CFO to AI Evangelist: Maria Azatyan on Finance,...

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2025/11/20

With more than 20 years of experience helping startups scale from seed to series B, Maria Azatyan has built architectures for companies across ai, robotics and the new space economy, translating complex technologies into numbers. This is coupled with her frank perspective as a single mother balancing finance leadership and advising startups. Sci-fi Dreams Made Real: sharing experiences with Waymo Setting up ArmGate, empowering entrepreneurs One month to “two minutes” using AI to work with

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46:01

What boards want from finance AI strategy: Joyce Li

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2025/11/12

Joyce Li, CEO, and chief AI strategist at Averanda Partners, brings a rare combination: CFA charter holder, computer science graduate, MBA from Wharton, Board advisor on AI. She advises on multi-billion dollar investment strategies and works with boards and C-suites on AI strategy, governance, and adoption. The power of Excel in an AI age The ROI of AI and what boards want to see 15% as the magic AI productivity number Agents and the future of finance

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50:46

Getting from Good to really Great in your Finance...

FP&A Today ·

2025/11/07

Rohini Jain leads finance strategy at BILL, which delivers strategic finance capabilities in one integrated platform including AP, AR, expenses and procurement. She has more than 20 years of experience shaping and leading finance, product, and operations teams at global fintech, payments, and e-commerce companies including at PayPal, eBay, Walmart and General Electric. She spoke to us ahead of the earnings release for Bill.com (November 5) which revealed total revenue at $395.7 million, an

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51:12

Chikako Tyler FP&A lessons getting from CFO to COO at...

FP&A Today ·

2025/10/23

Chikako Tyler is the Chief Operating Officer at California Bank & Trust (CB&T). She began her career at the leading California bank in 2010, starting as risk manager, progressing tos trategic planning and analysis (spanning seven revenue divisions and 150 units), before serving seven years as Chief Financial Officer revealing . Here she reveals the strategic leadership as the bank grew, from $9 billion to $15 billion in assets, and overcoming challenges from the post global financial crisis

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52:32

Secrets to a Simple Model: Peter Lynch

FP&A Today ·

2025/10/08

Peter Lynch is the founder of ASimpleModel.com and serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Stephen Gould. He has worked in private equity for most of his professional career at Rabobank, JP Morgan, Argenta Partners and Hilltop Holdings. But he’s perhaps best known for turning complex financial concepts into clear accessible lessons through ASimpleModel.com.JP Morgan in Buenos Aires Crazy models during the financial crisis Capital allocation strategy at Stephen Gould How a Simple Model took off Most

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45:19

Top Quant Akhil Khunger on what FP&A teams are missing

FP&A Today ·

2025/09/17

Akhil Khunger, VP Quantitative Analytics, Barclays, has more than ten years of experience in the field. Akhil develops statistical models to forecast balance sheets, revenue and probability of default. He has experience with time series modeling, statistical modeling, machine learning and building implementation frameworks using Python and other programming languages. Akhil, who has a master’s in Financial Engineering from UC Berkeley and London School of Economics, has worked in CCAR and Bank of

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47:08

From Big Four to Fiverr: How Esti Levy Dadon scaled...

FP&A Today ·

2025/09/09

Esti Levy Dadon, Executive VP Finance, Fiverr ,started in public accounting at Ernst and Young, before leading the finance function at Fiverrr. Since joining the global marketplace in 2016 she steered the company to a successful IPO in 2019. In her words: “In almost 10 years at Fiverr I’m still waiting for things to be boring and repeatable, but it never happens because things change all the time”In this episode: Building finance from the ground up at Fiverr The path to IPO and the financial

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40:47

From Data to Decisions - How Wasabi's FP&A and BI...

FP&A Today ·

2025/09/03

What do FP&A professionals need to understand about data work and BI and the work that BI is doing? Marcos Bento, Director BI, at Wasabi Technologies: “They need to translate business requests in English in a way that the BI folks can translate that into codes. That’s where the magic happens.” In part two of our deep dive with Marcos Bento (BI) and David Suter (FP&A) from Wasabi Technologies, we explore the execution side of their successful data partnership. In this episode: Our

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43:07

Building a high functioning partnership between BI &...

FP&A Today ·

2025/08/25

Wasabi Technologies (a Boston-based cloud storage company with over $530M in funding, a decade of hypergrowth, 450+ team members, and multiple exabytes of storage deployed) sets high standards for its finance and analytics teams. Both teams are under pressure to deliver fast, accurate, and actionable insights. Marcos Bento, Director Business Intelligence at Wasabi Technologies and David Suter, Director, Financial Planning And Analysis at Wasabi Technologies join us for a special two-parter. They

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49:17

From Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to Energy...

FP&A Today ·

2025/07/22

Connagh Hopkins is Head of Business Planning and Reporting at Western Power, one of Australia’s largest electricity network operators. Connagh shares her fascinating and unconventional journey from working on the global licensing for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to navigating Australia’s energy transformation.In this episode: Who Wants To be a Millionaire success (powered by Lotus123) The Consolidated 10 year plan at Western Power Scenario planning and Inflation challenges in utilities How

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56:16

CFO Grammarly – behind their $1 billion in...

FP&A Today ·

2025/07/17

Matt Hudson became CFO of Grammarly – the popular writing assistant tool – after the company acquired Coda (a productivity tool)- of which he was a founding member. Now as CFO at Grammarly he is overseeing rapid change at the company which has over 40 million daily active users and $700m in revenue (and a 50 person finance team). Finance is helping pioneer a company vision of AI redefining every business application and workflow, “reinventing productivity”. To this end, in May 2025, Grammarly

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