Watch a video to learn about the long journey Durga Srinivas Perisetti, Director FP&A and Operations Analytics at Juniper Networks, went through while gradually transitioning from Shared Service Center to Center of Excellence and the role of Integrated FP&A.
The recent FP&A Trends webinar looked at the main challenges FP&A professionals are facing these days.
This article provides an overview of the topics and cases presented and discussed by the expert panellists at the webinar “Top Five FP&A Challenges and How to Address Them”, as well as the results of our polling questions.
One of the largest privately owned companies in the world, Cargill’s FP&A journey started around 6 years ago. But, as the company’s Global Finance Director – Cocoa and Chocolate emphasises in a short video, this journey never really ends.
For the modern FP&A professional, Excel is an invaluable and versatile tool, but to provide best-in-class business partnering support, FP&A professionals must find ways to evolve Excel-based tools into more integrated solutions.
Is planning a routine annual exercise or a flexible and dynamic FP&A process that drives value and supports decision-making under uncertainty? How to achieve the latter?
Many organisations these days have three separate plans: a strategic plan created by executives, a finance plan created by the FP&A team and a range of detailed operational plans created by individual departments. These plans have different owners, different terminology and, more importantly, different underlying assumptions. How to overcome this by working in silos and bringing these plans together?