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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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Episodes
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Packed insights for Excel in FP&A: Jeff Gudim
This episode is 53 minutes packed with practical Excel insights for an FP&A practitioner and Excel advocate at the top of his game. Jeff Gudim is a senior…
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Data Science masterclass with Shifra Isaacs
In this masterclass Shifra Isaacs, developer Relations Advocate at Ascend.io, delves into her experience as data scientist, technical writer, and support lead…
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Curiosity, Ambition, Service: FP&A at Dashlane
Taylor Otstot, Vice President Finance, Dashlane joined GoDaddy (now a $30billion valued) domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company before their…
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Dave Sackett: How FP&A Can Stay Relevant In The AI Age
Dave Sackett is Co-Founder and CFO of ecommerce company, AIOne, and former CFO of semiconductor company, ULVAC Technologies. He is a vocal advocate for…
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Cycling in tariff territory – FP&A at top e-bike brand
Derek Paulson is Director of Finance and Performing Marketing at Rad Power Bikes, a Seattle-based e-bike company changing transportation. In this episode he…
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Big shifts in FP&A – Bryan Lapidus
“The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) is a non-for-profit with a really simple mission, which makes it really easy for me to wake up and know what…
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How I learned to love FP&A again – Annette deYoung
Annette DeYoung, Principal Solutions Consultant at Datarails, is an accountant-turned FP&A manufacturing leader. She has deep experience in leading finance…
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May the FP&A Be with you: a hero’s journey from Pixar, Lucasfilm, and LinkedIn (with Craig Barry)
Craig Barry has held senior finance roles at some of the most iconic companies in tech and entertainment, including LinkedIn, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Electronic…
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FP&A from Fortune 100 to Scrappy Startups – Mike Dion
Mike Dion works at a Fortune 100 company. He has previously worked as a finance leader at Verizon-as well as startups and as a mentor to enterprise giants to…
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Tech, Talent, Tariffs, and Taxes
FP&A Today goes on the road!. Our host city is Boston and the historic Harvard Club with an audience of Boston CFOs and FP&A leaders. Our first live recording…
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Pitch Perfect Board Presentations – CFO Shannon Nash
Shannon Nash is a chief financial officer, board director, investor, attorney, filmmaker, and CPA. She sits on the boards of Net Scout systems, Lazy Dog…
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AI must look for work your finance team hates to do – Hyoun Park
CEO and Principal Analyst at Amalgam Insights, Hyoun Park helps CIOs & CFOs create the ROI and strategic business cases for better AI and IT FinOps. He is also…
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Getting to a great Controller FP&A Relationship – Bill Hanna
With nearly 300k subscribers on YouTube, Bill Hanna’s weekly videos on The Financial Controller Channels provide his audience with lessons over a 15-year…
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Damon Fletcher, ex-CFO of Tableau, on Great Analytics
Today’s guest is perhaps the leading CFO name in data and analytics, the ex-CFO of Tableau and DataRobot. Now as Founder & CEO at Caliper, Fletcher draws on…
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From a deep struggle with personal skills to Storytelling Leader
Walmart, Kraft Heinz, Blue Rock Therapeutics, and the Four Seasons hotels are just some of companies that regularly invite Ron Monteiro to coach their finance…
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The Consolidation King on Working Better with FP&A – Charaf Bourhalla
“Consolidation. A lot of people don’t know exactly what it is. They think that it’s just an aggregation of numbers. Like you just add numbers, but it’s more…
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The perfect formula for FP&A and Beer – Pavels Cvetkovs at Carlsberg
Grab a beer and listen to this special episode. We are joined by Pavels Cvetkovs FP&A director at Carlsberg Group who reveals the formula of FP&A at the famous…
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Lies, Bias, and ESG in the finance function – Prof Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is a professor of Finance, non-executive director, author, and TED speaker. He is regularly interviewed and writes for WSJ, Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC…
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From Philadelphia Eagles to Sports FP&A
Over the last 12 years, Jason Hershman led financial planning & analysis at successful, hyper-growth companies in the sports arena. But his career started as a…
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Finance and passion always in fashion for 175-year old company
Evgenia Elezova, Head of Regional Finance, Lindström joins us to talk about FP&A and finance transformation at the 175-year old textile giant. Helsinki-based…
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FP&A as Fuel for Innovation – Lessons from Apple, Facebook Google and JFrog
Jarad Backlund is VP of FP&A at JFrog, a DevOps platform streamlining software development and delivery. In this episode Jarad provides frank insights and…
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CEO of CFI: Become a World Class Financial Analyst
I speak with Anna Talerico, the CEO of CFI, a powerhouse provider of training and productivity tools for finance and banking professionals (serving 2m finance…
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FP&A as the Strategic Backbone: Enrique Rodriguez, Walgreens Boots Alliance
“I transitioned into FP&A when I realized that it wasn’t just about crunching the numbers, it was more about telling a story and trying to influence the…
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Managing a remote FP&A Team to Big wins
Lindsey Martens, VP Finance at fintech company, Valera (Formerly PSCU/Co-op Solutions) talks about her transition from accounting to finance- and how she…
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DNA of A Digital Finance Function from PepsiCo’s Tariq Munir
In more than 12 years at PepsiCo Tariq Munir, has held roles including FP&A Manager, Head of Integrated Business Planning, Head of Finance Supply Chain, and…
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Nord Security’s $3B Growth: The FP&A Vision
Laurynas Zabulis, CFO at Nord Security, is playing a starring role at one of Lithuania’s most famous success stories. Cybersecurity unicorn, Nord Security…
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The Chief Forecaster will See You Now-Nate Kaemingk
Nate Kaemingk is Chief Forecaster for BetterForecasting.com, where he has built a financial forecasting AI for mid-market finance teams. Previously he has been…
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Brent Dykes: People Hear Statistics, But they Feel Stories
In this episode we are joined by Brent Dykes, the bestselling author of Effective Data Storytelling (Wiley, 2020), founder of Analytics Hero, and Forbes…
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Budget Battles, Politics, and AI: CFO Anna Tiomina
Anna Tiomina has faced multiple FP&A challenges in a 15-year finance career. This has included budget nightmares, all-nighters, and the stark realization that…
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A bird’s-eye view of FP&A from a top fintech VC – Saaya Nath
Saaya Nath is a partner of Jump Capital, a VC firm specializing in investments in software and infrastructure (their portfolio includes treasury software to…
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Business Partnering from Maersk to Lego: Christian Franz Hansen
Christian Franz Hansen is a seasoned management consultant and finance thought leader. He’s made it his mission to bridge the gap between strategic decision…
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Top Senior Data Scientist on AI and Future proofing FP&A
Tobias Zwingmann is an ex-Senior Data Scientist-turned managing partner of RAPYD.AI - which is empowering companies from B2B SaaS startups to leading financial…
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An Excel MVP walks into a podcast
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…
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Soaring Through FP&A: How Bruno Oliveira is Helping Swissport Take Flight
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…
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IBM CFO’s powerful lessons for getting FP&A into Owner Mode
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…
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Getting to big wins with AI in FP&A – Don Tomoff
“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…
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How to sell your report successfully- with Skip Kastroll
Skip Katroll is Senior Director, Insights and Analytics at AmPhil. AmPhil helps big-name nonprofits raise more money and advance their missions. This episode…
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The power of flexibility in your FP&A career - Laura Bloom
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…
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The last frontier: Getting FP&A from Back Office to Brilliant - Daniel Paik
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…
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Selling the Stack: Tyler Caskey, Partner at TheBeanCounters
CFO and Partner, Tyler Caskey loves hunting down and automating manual processes, installing better systems, and redesigning how information is gathered. He…
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Getting to an amazing FP&A Data story – Brandon Wilson
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…
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Getting more wins from your data - with Nicholas Mann
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…
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20 years of top FP&A (from Amazon to Siemens and everything in between)
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…
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For the Love of FP&A: Christian Wattig
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…
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The Art of Finance: Joe Knight on Demystifying Numbers to Empower Businesses
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…
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When AI Outperformed Financial Analysts – Alex Kim
In this episode Glenn Hopper talks to the researcher responsible for the groundbreaking study which found that AI is better at conducting financial analysis…
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How to get on CFO headhunters’ radars and win your next role
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…
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Fortune 500 to Startups: Multi-industry FP&A Leader Geetha Ramachandran
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…
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Getting to a Winning FP&A Story
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…
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AI and FP&A: Hype vs Reality
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…
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FP&A as Business Intelligence – Len McFall
FP&A professionals are the original business intelligence (BI) experts, says Len Mcfall, senior consultant, finance at Windstream Holdings, a $1billion US…
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My Adventures in Finance Real Estate: From Whistleblowing Fraud to Big Wins for Residents
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…
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Ready FP&A One: From Assassin’s Creed to Battling Big Budget Bosses – David Fortin
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…