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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.
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The Human Skills AI Can't Replace in Finance | Becky Glover
As AI takes on more analytical work, the next advantage for FP&A is knowing how to adapt, build trust, and work with people. What happens to finance…
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Copy the Architecture. Not the Bureaucracy. | Eric Lin
Big-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…
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Is Your Forecast Just a Target in Disguise? | Alejandro Hellmund
An 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…
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Would Your FP&A Forecast Survive an Audit? | Norm Osumi
A 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…
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A System Designed to Forget Finance: Why FP&A Ends Up Carrying the Rest in Excel
The 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…
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Do You Actually Need a CFO? Instead, Hire for the Problem with Tom Hunter
The 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…
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Would You Rather Be Lucky or Good? Building FP&A From Absolute Zero, with Katelyn Stienen
Building 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…
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The Real Job of FP&A: 40% Numbers, 60% Influence
The 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…
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The $100M Revenue Mistake Everyone Missed
For 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…
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50% of your job needs to be finance transformation: Anders Liu-Lindberg
Top 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…
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What boards really expect - from a CFO and Executive who isn’t coaching from the sidelines
Peter McKenzie, GM at a Blackstone portfolio company, professor at IESE Business School, and speaker at 50+ conferences across the world, talks frankly about…
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Goodbye to Glenn: Meet the new Host of FP&A Today
After 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…
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Lessons from a finance revolution at Mars, with Colin Moss
Colin 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…
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From Farm to FP&A: How California Dairies delivers 17 billion pounds of milk each year
We 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…
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From Ports to the Deal Table: How FP&A Earned a Seat at Peel Ports
In 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…
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Scaling FP&A at RingCentral: Dan Newman
Dan Newman heads FP&A at RingCentral, a $2.5B public SaaS company (a platform for business phone, SMS, contact center, workforce engagement management, video…
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Transforming FP&A at Fannie Mae into an “enterprise intelligence engine”
Caroline McAuliffe is Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Finance (FP&A and Procurement) at Fannie Mae. In its Q1 2026 results, the government-owned…
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Marketing vs FP&A: adventures in business partnering
In 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…
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Sales vs. Finance: What Great Business Partnership Really Looks Like
Swati 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…
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Finance Business Partnering, part 1: lessons from Ontex, P&G, and Gillette
Today on the show, we're launching a special series on finance business partnering - exploring different facets of modern finance business partnering. Today’s…
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“If the data's wrong, it doesn't matter how advanced your model is" - Tom Hinkle on AI and data strategy in FP&A
Tom 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…
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From Rice Paper to AI: FP&A Lessons from 30 Years at the Top of Global Finance - Sébastien Privel
What does it actually take to move FP&A activities into a shared service organization at Coca-Cola— and then transform how a global marketing giant manages…
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More than 12 ERP implementations later…Cindy Vindasius
Cindy Vindasius is the founder and CEO of Vindasius Advisory, and former Corporate Controller, and has spent more than 30 years helping high growth and…
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Riding the roller coaster of finance: Mykola Chyzhevskyi, Merlin Entertainment
Mykola is Finance Business Partner at Merlin Entertainments – offering some of the most popular attractions in the world including LEGOLAND Resorts, Thorpe…
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From Creation of Accounting Standards to Building an AI tool - Adam Hibbs
Adam Hibbs has pretty non-linear paths into finance:New Zealand telecom regulator, OfCom, Vodafone, Cable & Wireless, UK Ministry of Defense, and now Global…
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FP&A vs Accountants in an AI era - with Accountant Emily Feinstone
Emily Feinstone is an accounting manager at Eventus Advisory Group and unusually tech-forward in how she works. Emily spends her days building better…
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After the Gold Rush: The $75M Operation behind America's Hockey Champions
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…
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How to ignore the loud numbers and listen for the quiet risks: Sahil Kamani
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…
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What an AI-Native General Ledger Means for FP&A: John Glasgow
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…
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Perspectives from Controller, FP&A, CFO and Gartner: Marko Horvat
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…
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35 Years in Finance and constant change: Troy Anderson CFO at Kelly Services
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…
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The Future of the AI-Native ERP Stephen Hedlund, Rillet
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…
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Building back Trust Between CFOs and CROs: Eddie Reynolds
Eddie Reynolds, CEO of UnionSquare Consulting, opens up about the often-fraught relationship between CFOs and CROs. Eddie shares insights from his unique…
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From Flight Deck to Finance: Bobby Bray on Military Precision in Analytics and FP&A
Bobby Bray brings his perspective from more than 20 years in banking and consulting with Capital One, Oliver Wyman, and Regions Bank. The retired Navy Captain…
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Demystifying the Role of the CFO in Growth Stage Companies: Rick Smith
Five-time CFO Rick Smith has led finance at companies including inVentiv Health Communications, Exos, Parchment, Solera Health before founding Bonfire…
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Building a lean, mean, FP&A team from scratch – Preston Naegle
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…
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Aligning Sales and FP&A: Adam Shilton
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…
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CFO of AWA Studios on Building a Hits-Driven Business
What does it take to be the finance leader behind Hollywood stories? Diya Sagar, CFO of AWA Studios, which produces critically acclaimed, original stories for…
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From CFO to AI Evangelist: Maria Azatyan on Finance, and Startups
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…
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What boards want from finance AI strategy: Joyce Li
Joyce Li, CEO, and chief AI strategist at Averanda Partners, brings a rare combination: CFA charter holder, computer science graduate, MBA from Wharton, Board…
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Getting from Good to really Great in your Finance team: Rohini Jain, CFO, Bill.com
Rohini Jain leads finance strategy at BILL, which delivers strategic finance capabilities in one integrated platform including AP, AR, expenses and…
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Beyond the ride: Head of FP&A and investor Relations at Lyft
The opening voice on a Lyft earnings call is that of Aurelien Nolf, VP, FP&A and Investor Relations at the ride-hailing firm. He holds a dual role managing the…
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Chikako Tyler FP&A lessons getting from CFO to COO at California Bank & Trust
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…
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Fire Drills, Fractional Work, and AI Reality Check: Carl Seidman
As a fractional CFO and financial advisor, Carl Seidman, a returning guest, has worked with finance teams at some of the world’s most recognized companies…
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Secrets to a Simple Model: Peter Lynch
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…
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From Big Four CPA to Building a Lean Finance Function Driving 500% Growth – Andrew Polito
Andrew Polito is VP, Controller at Go HQ which provides a suite of back office services, including recruiting to delivery companies. The Fort Worth-based…
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$300 and a Suitcase to AI-Powered Finance: Mariya Guttoh
Mariya Guttoh is Director of FP&A and Treasury at PayJoy, a global FinTech company expanding credit access through smartphones to underserved customers in…
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Top Quant Akhil Khunger on what FP&A teams are missing
Akhil Khunger, VP Quantitative Analytics, Barclays, has more than ten years of experience in the field. Akhil develops statistical models to forecast balance…
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From Big Four to Fiverr: How Esti Levy Dadon scaled Finance at the Gig Marketplace
Esti Levy Dadon, Executive VP Finance, Fiverr ,started in public accounting at Ernst and Young, before leading the finance function at Fiverrr. Since joining…
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From Data to Decisions - How Wasabi's FP&A and BI Teams Execute at Scale
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…
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Building a high functioning partnership between BI & FP&A
Wasabi Technologies (a Boston-based cloud storage company with over $530M in funding, a decade of hypergrowth, 450+ team members, and multiple exabytes of…
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A "Systems Thinking" Mindset for FP&A Success - Daniel Gardner
Daniel Gardner is operational finance business partner at FirstGroup Plc, a leading UK-based provider of public transport. Daniel brings a unique perspective…
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“I am done pretending" - my honest take on finance and FP&A” – Sarah Schlott
Sarah Schlott, Senior Director of Finance at Tray, a leading point of sale system in entertainment, joins Glenn Hopper to tear down the sacred rituals of…
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From Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to Energy Transformation: Connagh Hopkins
Connagh Hopkins is Head of Business Planning and Reporting at Western Power, one of Australia’s largest electricity network operators. Connagh shares her…
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CFO Grammarly – behind their $1 billion in non-dilutive financing and how we do FP&A
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…
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Why Financial models are essential even at early stages of a company – Lauren Pearl
Lauren Pearl is a Business Strategist and CFO Advisor who helps startup teams build data-driven businesses. The 3x founder with over 13 years of startup…
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What Keeps Excel as the heart of business: Chandoo
Today’s guest barely needs an introduction. Purna Duggirala (aka, “Chandoo”) is a celebrity in Excel circles. Since 2004, Chandoo has been regularly sharing…
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Top 10 Burning Questions in FP&A
In this special episode Glenn is joined by Nate Saperia to answer the 10 most burning questions in FP&A. Nate brings nearly 20 years of finance experience…
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FP&A "Wow" Moments at $10m companies
Australian-born Luke Mulcahy started in FP&A at larger businesses including Coates Group (internet leader in Sydney) and manufacturing company…
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Data Analytics and AI for FP&A Teams
This special episode formed part of FP&A Con 2025 which saw a record-breaking 1500 registrants. The guests: Nathan Bell, Managing Partner, VAi Consulting, is…