FP&A Today

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 at Geneze

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 closing. The

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 and CFO tran

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 executive pr

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 unlikely paths i

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, he partner

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 success at Ca

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 operator in the UK

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 collaborati

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 mortgage giant b

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 managing part

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 series of f

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 special gue

“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 YouTube cha

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 billions in sp

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 enterprise compani

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 Park and Alton

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 Director of C

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 processes, automatin

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 organization with a f