FP&A Today
de Sarah Schlott
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Copy the Architecture. Not the Bureaucracy. | Eric Lin
Copy the Architecture. Not the Bureaucracy. | Eric Lin
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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.
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- Copy the Architecture. Not the Bureaucracy. | Eric Lin · 46 min · Episodul 221Big-company FP&A has valuable lessons - but its processes are often responses to problems your business may not have. What should an FP&A team borrow from Google, Netflix, and…
- Is Your Forecast Just a Target in Disguise? | Alejandro Hellmund · 54 min · Episodul 220An ambitious target is not the problem. The problem begins when Finance is expected to defend it as a forecast the business can actually deliver. What happens when leadership…
- Would Your FP&A Forecast Survive an Audit? | Norm Osumi · 55 min · Episodul 219A forecast can be useful for running a business and still lack the evidence needed to defend it. What happens when accounting and FP&A report different revenue numbers for the…
- A System Designed to Forget Finance: Why FP&A Ends Up Carrying the Rest in Excel · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 218The books were closed. The audits were supported. Then the CEO asked two simple questions: which products make the most money, and which ones don’t? Nobody could answer. Purity…
- Do You Actually Need a CFO? Instead, Hire for the Problem with Tom Hunter · 1 h 5 min · Episodul 217The most expensive finance hire can be the one that looks senior enough to feel safe but solves the wrong problem. Tom Hunter of Story Recruitment joins FP&A Today to explain why…
- Would You Rather Be Lucky or Good? Building FP&A From Absolute Zero, with Katelyn Stienen · 57 min · Episodul 216Building FP&A from scratch isn't primarily a spreadsheet problem. It's a people, process, and alignment problem.Katelyn Stienen, Director of FP&A at Good Day Farms and a top-16…
- The Real Job of FP&A: 40% Numbers, 60% Influence · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 215The best FP&A professionals don't just explain the numbers. They understand the business well enough to influence it.Gauri Tambe, Head of Finance & Accounting at Genezen, joins…
- The $100M Revenue Mistake Everyone Missed · 60 min · Episodul 214For FP&A, the most dangerous revenue number may be the one that looks credible enough not to question. A $100 million acquisition was just three weeks from closing. The target…
- 50% of your job needs to be finance transformation: Anders Liu-Lindberg · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 213Top FP&A business consultant Anders Liu-Lindberg joins FP&A Today four years after his first appearance on the show to talk about the radical changes in FP&A and CFO…
- What boards really expect - from a CFO and Executive who isn’t coaching from the sidelines · 58 min · Episodul 212Peter McKenzie, GM at a Blackstone portfolio company, professor at IESE Business School, and speaker at 50+ conferences across the world, talks frankly about executive presence…
- Goodbye to Glenn: Meet the new Host of FP&A Today · 42 min · Episodul 211After two years in the host's chair, Glenn Hopper passes FP&A Today to its new host, Sarah Schlott: a 20-year FP&A leader. The two swap stories on their unlikely paths into…
- Lessons from a finance revolution at Mars, with Colin Moss · 46 min · Episodul 210Colin Moss worked for more than 10 years at Mars, which produces some of the world's best-loved brands including Royal Canin, M&M’s and Snickers. In this role, he partnered with…
- From Farm to FP&A: How California Dairies delivers 17 billion pounds of milk each year · 51 min · Episodul 209We take a deep dive into the finances behind the agricultural and food beverage sector with Brad Mooney, Director of FP&A at California Dairies. FP&A drives success at California…
- From Ports to the Deal Table: How FP&A Earned a Seat at Peel Ports · 46 min · Episodul 208In our first FP&A Today episode to cover the shipping, ports and haulage sector, we look at the FP&A powering Peel Ports Group, the second largest port operator in the UK, which…
- Scaling FP&A at RingCentral: Dan Newman · 47 min · Episodul 207Dan Newman heads FP&A at RingCentral, a $2.5B public SaaS company (a platform for business phone, SMS, contact center, workforce engagement management, video collaboration, and…
- Transforming FP&A at Fannie Mae into an “enterprise intelligence engine” · 43 min · Episodul 206Caroline McAuliffe is Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Finance (FP&A and Procurement) at Fannie Mae. In its Q1 2026 results, the government-owned mortgage giant boasted…
- Marketing vs FP&A: adventures in business partnering · 50 min · Episodul 205In the third in our series on finance business partnering we are joined by David Manela, who has had the role of CRO and CMO at Fiverr, Ideei, and Vivre. As managing partner and…
- Sales vs. Finance: What Great Business Partnership Really Looks Like · 54 min · Episodul 204Swati Bagri, head of FP&A for a major global FMCG company was told early in her career: “Either you are sales or you are helping sales”. In this second in our series of finance…
- Finance Business Partnering, part 1: lessons from Ontex, P&G, and Gillette · 52 min · Episodul 203Today on the show, we're launching a special series on finance business partnering - exploring different facets of modern finance business partnering. Today’s special guest is…
- “If the data's wrong, it doesn't matter how advanced your model is" - Tom Hinkle on AI and data strategy in FP&A · 55 min · Episodul 202Tom Hinkle, senior leader in data and analytics at TIAA, has built his career at the intersection of finance, technology, and strategy. He also has a budding YouTube channel…
