FP&A Trends: Time to Make a Difference – Value Creation through FP&A Business Partnering

“We are model builders and, through our understanding, build various different scenarios to guide the business through to find the optimal outcome that creates maximum value.”

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CFO Journal: Financial Discipline to Raise Performance

“When future economic performance rests on the shoulders of the finance function, supporting and continually evaluating decision-making that optimizes performance in the long term is essential. Such an approach is possible with a new financial discipline that remodels finance data, forecasting, and delivery to better predict and align to the future of finance.”

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CFO Magazine: What Do CEOs Want From Their CFOs?

5 ways that CFOs can meet the wish lists of today’s CEOs:

1. Understand the Business Strategy and Optimize Forecasting
2. Prioritize Cash Flow Planning
3. Provide Better and Cleaner Data
4. Challenge Legacy Technologies
5. Communicate Clearly and Know Your Audience

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CFO Magazine: 6 Areas CFOs Should Support to Build Business Resilience

“To make informed decisions related to inventory, business expenses, hiring, capital investments, and other areas, management needs clear insight into financial performance. Even if your reporting is timely and accurate, are you providing the right insights and analysis to run the business? For example, if you’ve recently expanded globally, are you providing analysis by country or region? Or are you still setting budgets and presenting results as a total group?”

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CFO Magazine: 7 Core Skills of Great CFOs

“We’ve identified seven skills that top CFOs need to master in today’s evolving business climate”:

1. Solid Communicator
2. Able to Analyze
3. Technology Aficionado
4. Risk Awareness
5. Look Beyond Finance
6. Strategist
7. Alert to Social Issues

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CFO Dive: Finance is a Team Sport: 4 Ways Finance Leaders Can Collaborate to Deliver Insights

“With their strategic focus and statutory oversight, CFOs have always been utility players to some extent, and now it’s time to expand the bench by creating internal finance champions. CFOs who free up the finance group for more strategic work, take a deep dive into operational data, work alongside colleagues to address the issues that impact the business the most, and manage change skillfully, will have the best shot at an MVP award.”

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CFO Journal: The CFO Agenda

“Although weekly reforecasting or monthly scenario planning may wane as the pandemic does, CFOs are not likely to revert to their prior ways of doing things. As a result, CFOs will likely have to demonstrate their own agility as leaders, equipping the enterprise with what it may need most: insight on what drives its value and fulfills its purpose and options to maximize both.”

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CFO Magazine: What the Ukraine Crisis Means for CFOs

“The war also reinforces the crucial importance of sound data systems that enable CFOs to drill down into their supply chains to understand where they have risks and opportunities.”

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Forbes: The Big 2022 Trends For CFOs: Digital, Talent Retention And Remote Work

“One of the top focus areas for our team as we emerge from the pandemic amid the rapid, relentless pace of change is prioritizing data management to improve reporting and, ultimately, insights. As part of transforming the finance function at MassMutual to help us create more time to add analytical and creative value, having access to clean and organized data is key. Overall, I think this continues to be an opportunity for finance organizations so they can be more efficient and make informed, real-time recommendations leveraging data and technology as strategic advisors to the business.”

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