Bästa Oliveira Office podcaster (2024)

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An Excel MVP walks into a podcast 46:04

4d ago46:04

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George Mount is an Excel MVP and author of Modern Data Analytics in Excel (he describes it as a guide to becoming a data analyst in Excel). His latest book, Advancing into Analytics: From Excel to Python and R could be subtitled “becoming a data scientist in Excel. As founder and CEO of Stringfest Analytics, he provides analytics education and upsk…

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Soaring Through FP&A: How Bruno Oliveira is Helping Swissport Take Flight 42:53

12d ago42:53

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This year Bruno Oliveira got promoted to CFO, flying up the FP&A route at Swissport, the world’s leader in airport ground services and air cargo handling, active at 286 airports in 60 countries. In this must-listen episode: FP&A in the trenches from banks, to automotive, agriculture and aviation at Swissport How to cope without control on demand in…

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IBM CFO’s powerful lessons for getting FP&A into Owner Mode 55:40

18d ago55:40

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Forget “Founder Mode”. For those in FP&A your CFO expects Owner Mode. “In rugby, if you observe, a player often clings on to the ball, not letting it go out of his hands until the goal is scored. That’s how we need to handle things. Own it — cling onto it — achieve the goal,” says former IBM India CFO Ravikumar Ramanan, author of the brilliant book…

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Getting to big wins with AI in FP&A – Don Tomoff 54:20

25d ago54:20

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“Not having the answer is no longer acceptable because you are 30 seconds from having the answer. You’ve just gotta ask.” – Don Tomoff Don Tomoff, founder of Invenio Advisors, is a finance rockstar and a trailblazer in AI adoption for finance. As a CMA his life’s mission is to make work easier for literally everyone he encounters. The CMA and finan…

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How to sell your report successfully- with Skip Kastroll 54:34

1M ago54:34

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Skip Katroll is Senior Director, Insights and Analytics at AmPhil. AmPhil helps big-name nonprofits raise more money and advance their missions. This episode is packed with practical and honest insights and takeaways you can apply to your day job. Skip gives the inside story on creating and selling a report at Amphil, "Unlocking the Secrets of Lost…

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The power of flexibility in your FP&A career - Laura Bloom 55:00

1M ago55:00

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Laura Bloom started as as a contracts manager for an air cargo company. In a dramatic switch she moved to accounting, then finance and FP&A at top companies including Dotmatics, Salesforce Comcast, and is now senior finance manager at Icertis, a SaaS platform for AI-powered contract intelligence. In 2023 she founded Impact FP&A specializing in Go-T…

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The last frontier: Getting FP&A from Back Office to Brilliant - Daniel Paik 1:03:27

1M ago1:03:27

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Former CFO Daniel Paik, turned founder and CEO of CuroWork is at war on back office functions. He vows to “transform back-office departments from cost centers to profit centers” with FP&A in their sights. He says: “I call the back office the last frontier. We are the only ones not measuring ourselves. Therefore we get crap given to us every single …

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Selling the Stack: Tyler Caskey, Partner at TheBeanCounters 59:37

2M ago59:37

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CFO and Partner, Tyler Caskey loves hunting down and automating manual processes, installing better systems, and redesigning how information is gathered. He adds: “On average I can cut 40% of the time cost out of most finance and payroll teams within 12 months. And with the 40% saved time they can significantly reduce error rates and start to show …

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Getting to an amazing FP&A Data story – Brandon Wilson 53:33

2M ago53:33

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Continuing our “Masters of FP&A Data” series, we have the privilege of hosting Brandon Wilson, Founder and CEO of Steady Dynamic. Brandon works with clients from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies giving expertise to those who lack experience building digital solutions. He encourages big ideation, assuming technology can solve any proble…

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Getting more wins from your data - with Nicholas Mann 58:36

2M ago58:36

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Nicholas Mann, founder and CEO Stratos Consulting, has got the best out of the data for hundreds of companies. He has helped data and analytics leaders go from siloed, heterogeneous data source to a modeled data warehouse and analytics platforms. In this awesome analytics episode he shares some of his experiences: Getting companies on their data jo…

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20 years of top FP&A (from Amazon to Siemens and everything in between) 46:13

2M ago46:13

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Maria del Dado Alonso Sanchez, a recognized and respected Board Member and Chief Financial Officer for large & mid-cap companies has been a finance leader in sectors including e-commerce, technology, gaming ad tech, and online hospitality. She says: “Each sector really presented its unique financial challenges and strategies.” Learn invaluable less…

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For the Love of FP&A: Christian Wattig 57:48

3M ago57:48

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Only our second ever returning guest, Christian Wattig, a veteran former leader of FP&A at P&G, Unilever, and Squarespace, reveals new skills he has learnt as he created the recently-launched 8 week Wharton Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Certificate Program, one of the most comprehensive FP&A training courses on the market. He describes highl…

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The Art of Finance: Joe Knight on Demystifying Numbers to Empower Businesses 55:17

3M ago55:17

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When any finance business partner–a CFO or an FP&A professional–wants their counterpart across the table in marketing, sales or HR, to understand the essentials of numbers, they hand them the business classic, Financial Intelligence, A Manager's Guide to Knowing what the Numbers Really Mean. First published in 2006, the book has been named in the T…

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When AI Outperformed Financial Analysts – Alex Kim 59:06

3M ago59:06

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In this episode Glenn Hopper talks to the researcher responsible for the groundbreaking study which found that AI is better at conducting financial analysis than humans. Alex Kim, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, provides a full overview of his findings, methodology and the impact on FP&A, CFOs and finance from the attention-grabbing…

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How to get on CFO headhunters’ radars and win your next role 55:29

3M ago55:29

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We received a flood of FP&A and CFO questions from our audience (and FP&A Reddit). These and more are put to this this week’s finance headhunter special guests: Nick Gribbon,Senior Partner, Financial Officers Practice at Essenta, and Laura Streather, Consultant, Private Equity at Essenta, who run the finance headhunting section at the global execut…

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Fortune 500 to Startups: Multi-industry FP&A Leader Geetha Ramachandran 51:58

4M ago51:58

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Geetha Ramachandran is an FP&A change agent. She helped transform FP&A operations at GE Healthcare and Cummins (“When I walked into the FP&A at GE Healthcare, and I saw the close was eight days, my approach to things is usually I don’t take things just on face value or just because someone has been doing something a particular way).” Geetha has sin…

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Getting to a Winning FP&A Story 56:26

4M ago56:26

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A compelling FP&A story is essential. In this second (and final) session from FP&ACon 2024, Glenn hosts Soufyan Hamid, FP&A leader for 16 years who runs the Financial Storytelling Program, and Matthew Herbert, Chewy Director of Finance. First poll: How confident are you in your ability to craft a compelling FP&A Story:? The move from numbers to sto…

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AI and FP&A: Hype vs Reality 54:46

4M ago54:46

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In this special episode (part of Datarails’ FP&A Con 2024) Glenn hosts an all-star panel to debate AI and FP&A: Hype vs reality. Join Nicolas Boucher, Christian Martinez, and Gabriela Gutierrez, alongside CFO Glenn Hopper, host of FP&A Today, and an AI thought leader and author. Delve into real-world applications, separating fact from fiction, and …

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FP&A as Business Intelligence – Len McFall 45:42

4M ago45:42

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FP&A professionals are the original business intelligence (BI) experts, says Len Mcfall, senior consultant, finance at Windstream Holdings, a $1billion US telecoms company. “FP&A itself is synonymous with business intelligence,” he says. “And honestly, weren’t, weren’t we the first business intelligence? We’ve always been working with data. We’ve a…

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My Adventures in Finance Real Estate: From Whistleblowing Fraud to Big Wins for Residents 39:04

5M ago39:04

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CFO Seth Zimmerman faced a triple blow of tests in his decades-long real estate career. Firstly, he witnessed the Lehman collapse first-hand from within a real estate division of the famed bank (“We just got a call from our New York office, a guy in New York. He’s like, well, it’s done. We’re bankrupt.”). Secondly, being forced to blow the whistle …

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Ready FP&A One: From Assassin’s Creed to Battling Big Budget Bosses – David Fortin 48:23

5M ago48:23

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As a lifelong gamer, David Fortin successfully landed his dream job managing FP&A at Ubisoft – the $2.79 billion gaming company responsible for Assassin’s Creed, Driver, and Far Cry, For Honor. The former PwC auditor then decided to take on an even more daunting leap. He ran FP&A at Saas Startup Polka “building the plane while we were flying” – cue…

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The FP&A Playbook from Nestlé, Mars, Kraft Heinz and Amazon: Swati Bagri 45:27

5M ago45:27

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From being the First kid in her family to finish high school, Swati Bagri began as a role as auditor at Deloitte (“I did what any 17-year-old smart kid would do. I just followed my friends”). At Deloitte she discovered a “love of finance” realizing it’s “what I want to do for the rest of my life”. Swati cemented her FP&A career at some of the world…

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Forecasting and Leading (FP&A) in Las Vegas 57:25

5M ago57:25

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We host our first ever FP&A guest from the US casino and gambling sector with the head of FP&A at Genting Americas, a world leader in casinos and lodging with luxurious loactions in Las Vegas, Bimini, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. Bill Singh is VP FP&A of Genting Americas, part of the world’s largest Destination Reso…

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Hitmaking, Taylor Swift, and FP&A 47:49

6M ago47:49

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What’s the connection between FP&A and Taylor Swift? To answer we are joined by Michael Stotland, Vice President of FP&A at AEG Presents. AEG Presents is one of the largest live music companies in the world, and most famously the concert promoter behind the $1 billion dollar revenue Eras Tour by Taylor Swift: the highest grossing tour of all time. …

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The FP&A Life at GE, Microsoft–and Now Google 44:03

6M ago44:03

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Antonio Reza is the Head of Finance for Google Cloud Consulting in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In this episode he reveals the FP&A life and lessons he has learned over the past 14 years working in finance and strategy at Google, Microsoft, and GE. He brings experiences across 10 different countries leading teams across the globe spannin…

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Formula for FP&A success at high-growth companies: Greg Lopez 42:51

6M ago42:51

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Greg Lopez has served as the CFO and VP of operations at companies including Futurism, a digital media company, Wirecutter (acquired by the New York Times) and Gawker Media (acquired by Univision). Now Greg is a consultant at high-growth companies working with clients ranging from a “family owned business doing $20 million”, “SaaS businesses doing …

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Data analytics and AI for FP&A teams – with Nathan Bell 51:02

6M ago51:02

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Getting FP&A teams to harness their data to reach their goals is the holy grail. Nathan Bell, Managing Partner, VAi Consulting, is among the most in-demand experts. Bell has unique experience– having started in computer science, before leading finance teams at Native American Bank, Digital Media Trends and Gartner– where he advised hundreds of FP&A…

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How to Light up FP&A Telecoms - Tory Bauman, VP FP&A Zayo 45:07

6M ago45:07

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Tory Bauman, Vice President, FP&A at Zayo Group joins new host Glenn Hopper. In this fascinating episode they go deep on FP&A metrics and processes at one of the most exciting companies in telecoms. Tory leads an FP&A team underpinning business decisions at Zayo whose network stretches over 16.8 million fiber miles and spans 141,000 route miles. Wi…

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Narcissism and hubris in leadership. Featuring Professor Eugene Sadler Smith, AlixPartners’ Ted Bililies, Ph.D, and host Thomas Morineaux. 35:24

7M ago35:24

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What drives founders and leaders to begin their start-up journey? How can they effectively handle the different stages of growth and “let go of their baby”? And how do the leadership traits at the top contribute to – or constrict – an organisation’s development? To close out our first season, we focus on the area of business leadership in the start…

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The Big Handover: Paul Says Goodbye and Chats With New Host Glenn Hopper 24:55

7M ago24:55

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It’s the end of an era. This is Paul Barnhurst’s last episode as FP&A Today host. And in this episode he introduces new FP&A Today host: Glenn Hopper. Glenn Hopper is a Chief Financial Officer with two decades of experience leading finance operations for private equity-backed companies. Glenn is an author and journalist, US Navy Veteran, #1 AI Fina…

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Leaving FP&A at billion dollar companies to become a top Fractional CFO: Rosemary Linden ‘s amazing career journey 46:49

7M ago46:49

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Rosemary Linden more than earned her stripes in FP&A over twenty years. Her roles included VP FP&A at Alliant Insurance Services. Director of Global FP&A at WD-40 Company and at Solera. But after two decades in corporate finance she moved to being a fractional CFO serving small businesses (typical annual revenue of around $10million) managing an as…

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Doing Capitalism Better: Cotopaxi CFO Gary Bowen 43:16

7M ago43:16

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Most CFOs don’t build models where 1% of their company’s net sales (not profits) are given away instantly “right from the top” to help alleviate poverty. But then Cotopaxi is not like most companies. In this episode Cotopaxi CFO, Gary Bowen, explains the pivotal role played by finance and FP&A in “doing capitalism better” while also seeking to beco…

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From Leading Data Science at Facebook to becoming a CEO: Kat Orekhova 50:37

7M ago50:37

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Kat Orekhova is Co-Founder & CEO of Vareto, a planning and analytics platform for enterprise teams. In her own words Kat has an “unusual backstory” leaving the world of math academia to build Facebook’s first-ever data science team within FP&A. At the social media giant she was Responsible for financial reporting, forecasting, and planning activiti…

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FP&A Bliss from Pepsi to Lindt: Tolga Hocanin 43:12

8M ago43:12

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Tolga Hocanin, CFO & Vice President, Finance & IT at Lindt & Sprüngli (Canada) gives a masterclass in CPG FP&A from his experience at PepsiCo and chocolatier, Lindt. In this episode: Lessons from 20 years of budgeting and how my first budget was a nightmare Why budgeting is not just a math exercise The main metrics you need to know in CPG Why mix m…

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How FP&A and Rev Ops Can work Together to Drive Value 54:49

8M ago54:49

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Talking about the connectedness of FP&A and Rev Ops working together are all-star revenue leaders: Jeff Ignacio, Head of Go-to market Growth and operations at Regrow Ag, Arvind Chahal VP, finance and ops at autotrader Canada, and Drew Noel, VP Revenue, SCS Cloud. First, what is rev Ops? “Rev Ops is the discipline of aligning go-to market strategy a…

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Andrew Lynch -the SMB Finance Guy-on Mentors, Skill Stacking, and why getting Fired Saved my Career 48:42

8M ago48:42

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Andrew Lynch, Head of FP&A at UK card discount scheme for public service employees, Blue LIght Card, is known to his nearly 11,000 Twitter followers as The SMB Finance Guy. The FP&A leader also runs the highly popular Net Income newsletter regularly posts small business opportunities, scaling companies, systems, strategy, “with a few shitposts thro…

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Crowdo. Featuring Nicola Castelnuovo, Co-Founder and Group CCO, and AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Paul Fanning. 18:18

8M ago18:18

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Crowdo is a market-leading business banking platform for SMEs in emerging Asia. Nicola Castelnuovo, Co-Founder and Group CCO, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Paul Fanning to discuss the challenges in scaling a start-up, the key success factors for his business to date, and his thoughts on what may be on the horizon to disrupt the world of …

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FP&A at $5m to $50M Companies – Jon Allen and Duke Heninger 48:11

8M ago48:11

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Jon Allen and Duke Heninger, of Utah-based Amplēo, have brought their finance game to fast-growing companies which are between $5m and $50m in revenue. They are “fractional CFOs” – that is experienced finance professionals advising these companies on a part-time basis. For instance, one business they work with, Korean barbeque restaurant Cupbop, ap…

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AI: An extension of the FP&A Brain: Didi Gurfinkel Co-Founder and CEO of Datarails 36:21

9M ago36:21

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There are two different directions for AI in finance, says Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder and CEO of Datarails. You can use AI to extend your hands. Or, your brain. He says: ”Using AI to extend your hands involves automating processes, making everything faster, reducing headcount shortening time to deliver, which is amazing. But it’s not a life changer…

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FP&A Vs Finance Business Partners – Tunc Tezel, VP Group FP&A at Ontex 45:30

9M ago45:30

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Tunc Tezel has managed FP&A at companies including Ontex, Pladis, British American Tobacco, Procter & Gamble, and Gillette. He has lived and worked in 11 different countries including the UK, Iran, Sub-saharan Africa, Turkey, Latvia, Belgium Now, Tezel is VP of global FP&A at Ontex, a publicly listed leader in private label manufacturing baby care,…

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A new roadmap for FP&A – with Jack Alexander 53:09

9M ago53:09

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Jack Alexander was our second ever guest on FP&A Today and it remains one of our most downloaded episodes. Here he returns to exclusively launch his new book (published January 2024): Financial Management: Partner in Driving Performance and Value (Wiley Finance) His new book is a post-pandemic and typically practical take on performance management,…

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Winning the Super Bowl of FP&A – with Cayla Pingel 38:31

9M ago38:31

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Cayla Pingel has led FP&A in sports, gaming and entertainment at companies including Warner Bros, Fox Sports and most recently, 2K Games, a global video game company. At Fox Sports she financially quarterbacked the full P&L for the biggest sporting events including the Super Bowl, the World Series, and the NFL Baseball World Cup. The senior Directo…

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My first year as a first-time CFO – CJ Gustafson, CFO, PartsTech 47:23

9M ago47:23

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“I last came on FP&A Today before I started my new CFO gig, and I was pretty nervous. I was talking a lot in theory of what I thought it would be, and now I can tell you a little bit more of the reality. So it's been quite the ride.” Returning guest CJ Gustafson–master of the hugely popular Mostly Metrics newsletter–delivers in his custom funny and…

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How to win at FP&A with Psychology, Strategy and Tradeoffs 45:17

10M ago45:17

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Taylor Otstot is VP of Finance at Dashlane, and former Senior Director of Finance at GoDaddy. He joined GoDaddy a year before their IPO and was there for eight years as the domain registrar and web hosting company scaled from $1.5 billion to $4 billion revenue. “By the time I left I was supporting about a billion and a half of that revenue and I wa…

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Your 12 Biggest FP&A Questions from 2023 Answered 55:03

10M ago55:03

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We have an all-star panel getting into the Christmas and New Year spirit. Howard Tunnicliffe, Head of FP&A, The Economist, and Brett Hampson, Director of Finance, AllState, joinin host Paul Barnhurst, The FP&A Guy in this special edition of FP&A Today. They tackle the 12 most burning questions asked on reddit.com/r/FPandA in 2023. Mid-way we give y…

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How CFOs build a Goldilocks “just-right” budget – Jeff Epstein ex-CFO of Oracle 54:06

10M ago54:06

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Jeff Epstein is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners leading its CFO Council where he helps CEOs and CFOs at their 200- portfolio company share best practices. Epstein, one of the most famous names in finance, is former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oracle, with a market value of over $200 billion. Prior to jo…

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Why and How I built an FP&A Center of Excellence at Verizon - Ed Hyer 45:39

10M ago45:39

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Ed Hyer, as VP FP&A at Verizon, built one of the most ambitious centers of excellence (COEs) undertaken in finance. Put simply, a center of excellence centralizes similar types of work into a single entity. While relatively common for payroll functions or “back-end transactional work”, FP&A presented an altogether bigger challenge for the COE conce…

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All about Not for Profit FP&A - Amy Omand 47:05

11M ago47:05

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“One of the myths I'd love to dispel is that nonprofits are not strategic. People think we aren’t forward thinking or just scrapping for change and trying to get things done. I've had the honor of working with organizations where we really focus on our mission in a nonprofit context in a very strategic way.” You don’t want to miss this masterclass …

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When FP&A meets AI, Python, and Excel 46:47

11M ago46:47

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Christian Martinez, Finance Analytics Manager at Kraft Heinz is an in-demand Conference Speaker and specialist who teaches a top-rated course, with (previous guest) Nicolas Boucher. In this episode discover the secrets about game changing uses of AI and Python for your FP&A career. “We’re in the same era as when Excel was first invented,” says Mart…

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FP&A and product-led growth at Adobe 43:18

11M ago43:18

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Product led growth is a business strategy and philosophy that puts the product at the center and the key driver for customer acquisition, activation, adoption, and retention. Parth Kulkarni, Head of FP&A, Adobe Express, recounts his chance to reimagine FP&A using product-led growth. He explains the process leading the FP&A team powering Adobe Expre…

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