Best David Fortin Podcasts (2024)

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When AI Outperformed Financial Analysts – Alex Kim 59:06

4d ago59:06

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In this episode Glenn Hopper talks to the researcher responsible for the groundbreaking study which found that AI is better at conducting financial analysis than humans. Alex Kim, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, provides a full overview of his findings, methodology and the impact on FP&A, CFOs and finance from the attention-grabbing…

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David Trim: A Voice to Rouse the Nations 52:08

11d ago52:08

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Dr. Michael Campbell sits down with Dr. David Trim to talk about the latter's newest book, A Voice to Rouse the Nations: Ellen White and the Growth of Adventist Mission Work. What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast focusing on the academic side of Adventist history and hosted by historians Greg Howell and Michael Campbell. This podc…

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How to get on CFO headhunters’ radars and win your next role 55:29

12d ago55:29

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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 guests: Nick Gribbon,Senior Partner, Financial Officers Practice at Essenta, and Laura Streather, Consultant, Private Equity at Essenta, who run the finance headhunting section at the global execut…

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SGV Connect 126: Melissa Mora Hidalgo and Jonah Kanner 50:22

16d ago50:22

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This week's SGV Connect returns to our regular formula with a pair of interviews by Damien Newton and Chris Greenspon. First, Chris interviews Melissa Mora Hidalgo, a queer entertainment writer living in Whittier. The interview goes back and forth between fun and serious, as the two discuss both her work and the performative allyship that occurs du…

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Fortune 500 to Startups: Multi-industry FP&A Leader Geetha Ramachandran 51:58

19d ago51:58

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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, and I saw the close was eight days, my approach to things is usually I don’t take things just on face value or just because someone has been doing something a particular way).” Geetha has sin…

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Getting to a Winning FP&A Story 56:26

26d ago56:26

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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 Financial Storytelling Program, and Matthew Herbert, Chewy Director of Finance. First poll: How confident are you in your ability to craft a compelling FP&A Story:? The move from numbers to sto…

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SGV Connect 125: A Sweatshop Documentary Comic Strip 16:34

29d ago16:34

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This week Chris brings us a special feature interview with artist Isabel Pan. Pan is the artist in residence at C.A.S.A Zamora in El Monte. Her project has been a documentary-style, slice of life comic strip depicting the impact of sweatshop labor and refugee crises on the children of immigrants in the San Gabriel Valley. Pan’s subject is the son o…

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AI and FP&A: Hype vs Reality 54:46

1M ago54:46

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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, Christian Martinez, and Gabriela Gutierrez, alongside CFO Glenn Hopper, host of FP&A Today, and an AI thought leader and author. Delve into real-world applications, separating fact from fiction, and …

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FP&A as Business Intelligence – Len McFall 45:42

1M ago45:42

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FP&A professionals are the original business intelligence (BI) experts, says Len Mcfall, senior consultant, finance at Windstream Holdings, a $1billion US telecoms company. “FP&A itself is synonymous with business intelligence,” he says. “And honestly, weren’t, weren’t we the first business intelligence? We’ve always been working with data. We’ve a…

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Answering 'Answering Adventism'" - The Trinity 1:02:29

1M ago1:02:29

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The Podcastorians (Drs. Michael Campbell, Greg Howell, and Jud Lake plus Matthew Lucio) are back to respond to claims made by the Answering Adventism YouTube channel about the Adventist pioneers and the Trinity. How should Adventists understand the position of their founders? Link to the Video What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast…

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My Adventures in Finance Real Estate: From Whistleblowing Fraud to Big Wins for Residents 39:04

2M ago39:04

39:04

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 estate division of the famed bank (“We just got a call from our New York office, a guy in New York. He’s like, well, it’s done. We’re bankrupt.”). Secondly, being forced to blow the whistle …

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SGV Connect 124: Reclaimers and Rick Cole 1:22:27

2M ago1:22:27

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This week’s SGV Connect continues our theme of focusing in on various areas of the SGV for our podcast episodes by looking at the Greater Pasadena area. First, Damien and Chris traveled to El Sereno to meet with some of the Reclaimers, unhoused residents of El Sereno who moved into Caltrans owned properties during the pandemic. Benito, Sandra and F…

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Ready FP&A One: From Assassin’s Creed to Battling Big Budget Bosses – David Fortin 48:23

2M ago48:23

48:23

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 Creed, Driver, and Far Cry, For Honor. The former PwC auditor then decided to take on an even more daunting leap. He ran FP&A at Saas Startup Polka “building the plane while we were flying” – cue…

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The FP&A Playbook from Nestlé, Mars, Kraft Heinz and Amazon: Swati Bagri 45:27

2M ago45:27

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From being the First kid in her family to finish high school, Swati Bagri began as a role as auditor at Deloitte (“I did what any 17-year-old smart kid would do. I just followed my friends”). At Deloitte she discovered a “love of finance” realizing it’s “what I want to do for the rest of my life”. Swati cemented her FP&A career at some of the world…

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SGV Connect 123: The Upcoming Election in Alhambra CD4 44:17

2M ago44:17

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This week's SGV Connect is focusing on the election to replace Councilmember and Vice-Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez of Alhambra. Pérez has given up her seat to run for the State Senate. Chris interviews Nicolas Kiet Quach, the president of the Alhambra Library Board of Trustees. While only 18, Kiet Quach is no newcomer to politics having worked for and w…

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Forecasting and Leading (FP&A) in Las Vegas 57:25

2M ago57:25

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We host our first ever FP&A guest from the US casino and gambling sector with the head of FP&A at Genting Americas, a world leader in casinos and lodging with luxurious loactions in Las Vegas, Bimini, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. Bill Singh is VP FP&A of Genting Americas, part of the world’s largest Destination Reso…

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George Butler & Ellen White (w/ Denis Fortin) 54:04

2M ago54:04

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Dr. Michael W. Campbell and Dr. Greg Howell sit down with Dr. Denis Fortin to talk about George Ide Butler's controversy with A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner leading up the 1888 General Conference session. You can watch this episode here. You can buy Denis Fortin's Butler biography here. What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast focusing…

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Hitmaking, Taylor Swift, and FP&A 47:49

2M ago47:49

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What’s the connection between FP&A and Taylor Swift? To answer we are joined by Michael Stotland, Vice President of FP&A at AEG Presents. AEG Presents is one of the largest live music companies in the world, and most famously the concert promoter behind the $1 billion dollar revenue Eras Tour by Taylor Swift: the highest grossing tour of all time. …

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The FP&A Life at GE, Microsoft–and Now Google 44:03

3M ago44:03

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Antonio Reza is the Head of Finance for Google Cloud Consulting in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In this episode he reveals the FP&A life and lessons he has learned over the past 14 years working in finance and strategy at Google, Microsoft, and GE. He brings experiences across 10 different countries leading teams across the globe spannin…

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Formula for FP&A success at high-growth companies: Greg Lopez 42:51

3M ago42:51

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Greg Lopez has served as the CFO and VP of operations at companies including Futurism, a digital media company, Wirecutter (acquired by the New York Times) and Gawker Media (acquired by Univision). Now Greg is a consultant at high-growth companies working with clients ranging from a “family owned business doing $20 million”, “SaaS businesses doing …

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Data analytics and AI for FP&A teams – with Nathan Bell 51:02

3M ago51:02

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Getting FP&A teams to harness their data to reach their goals is the holy grail. Nathan Bell, Managing Partner, VAi Consulting, is among the most in-demand experts. Bell has unique experience– having started in computer science, before leading finance teams at Native American Bank, Digital Media Trends and Gartner– where he advised hundreds of FP&A…

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How to Light up FP&A Telecoms - Tory Bauman, VP FP&A Zayo 45:07

3M ago45:07

45:07

Tory Bauman, Vice President, FP&A at Zayo Group joins new host Glenn Hopper. In this fascinating episode they go deep on FP&A metrics and processes at one of the most exciting companies in telecoms. Tory leads an FP&A team underpinning business decisions at Zayo whose network stretches over 16.8 million fiber miles and spans 141,000 route miles. Wi…

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George Butler & 1888 (w/ Denis Fortin) 43:45

3M ago43:45

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Dr. Michael W. Campbell and Dr. Greg Howell sit down with Dr. Denis Fortin to talk about George Ide Butler's controversy with A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner leading up the 1888 General Conference session. You can watch this episode here. What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast focusing on the academic side of Adventist history and hos…

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The Big Handover: Paul Says Goodbye and Chats With New Host Glenn Hopper 24:55

4M ago24:55

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It’s the end of an era. This is Paul Barnhurst’s last episode as FP&A Today host. And in this episode he introduces new FP&A Today host: Glenn Hopper. Glenn Hopper is a Chief Financial Officer with two decades of experience leading finance operations for private equity-backed companies. Glenn is an author and journalist, US Navy Veteran, #1 AI Fina…

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Leaving FP&A at billion dollar companies to become a top Fractional CFO: Rosemary Linden ‘s amazing career journey 46:49

4M ago46:49

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Rosemary Linden more than earned her stripes in FP&A over twenty years. Her roles included VP FP&A at Alliant Insurance Services. Director of Global FP&A at WD-40 Company and at Solera. But after two decades in corporate finance she moved to being a fractional CFO serving small businesses (typical annual revenue of around $10million) managing an as…

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Doing Capitalism Better: Cotopaxi CFO Gary Bowen 43:16

4M ago43:16

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Most CFOs don’t build models where 1% of their company’s net sales (not profits) are given away instantly “right from the top” to help alleviate poverty. But then Cotopaxi is not like most companies. In this episode Cotopaxi CFO, Gary Bowen, explains the pivotal role played by finance and FP&A in “doing capitalism better” while also seeking to beco…

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From Leading Data Science at Facebook to becoming a CEO: Kat Orekhova 50:37

4M ago50:37

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Kat Orekhova is Co-Founder & CEO of Vareto, a planning and analytics platform for enterprise teams. In her own words Kat has an “unusual backstory” leaving the world of math academia to build Facebook’s first-ever data science team within FP&A. At the social media giant she was Responsible for financial reporting, forecasting, and planning activiti…

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A New Podcast in Adventist History? 39:59

5M ago39:59

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Matthew Lucio joins Dr. Michael W. Campbell to talk to the newest podcast host. "They Also Served" premieres on March 15, 2024. Listen here. If you want to listen to Olga Oss' fully report of her time in a Japanese concentration camp, visit this link (jump to 1:27:00): What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast focusing on the academic…

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SGV Connect 122: Glendora 31:15

5M ago31:15

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We continue our tour through the San Gabriel Valley with an episode focused on the City of Glendora, known as the Heart of the Foothills. It might surprise you if you're not familiar with what's going on at this small suburban community, but Glendora is working hard to build out a bike network, calm traffic on its streets, build up a downtown in it…

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FP&A Bliss from Pepsi to Lindt: Tolga Hocanin 43:12

5M ago43:12

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Tolga Hocanin, CFO & Vice President, Finance & IT at Lindt & Sprüngli (Canada) gives a masterclass in CPG FP&A from his experience at PepsiCo and chocolatier, Lindt. In this episode: Lessons from 20 years of budgeting and how my first budget was a nightmare Why budgeting is not just a math exercise The main metrics you need to know in CPG Why mix m…

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How FP&A and Rev Ops Can work Together to Drive Value 54:49

5M ago54:49

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Talking about the connectedness of FP&A and Rev Ops working together are all-star revenue leaders: Jeff Ignacio, Head of Go-to market Growth and operations at Regrow Ag, Arvind Chahal VP, finance and ops at autotrader Canada, and Drew Noel, VP Revenue, SCS Cloud. First, what is rev Ops? “Rev Ops is the discipline of aligning go-to market strategy a…

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SGV Connect 121, El Monte Region: David Diaz and Pedro Gonzalez 28:31

5M ago28:31

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Welcome to the first SGV Connect podcast of 2024! We start our new year with the first in a new series that focuses on different regions and communities in the San Gabriel Valley and examines both the state of their mobility projects and cultural and community projects. This week, both interviews were completed by Chris Greenspon. The first is with…

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Andrew Lynch -the SMB Finance Guy-on Mentors, Skill Stacking, and why getting Fired Saved my Career 48:42

5M ago48:42

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Andrew Lynch, Head of FP&A at UK card discount scheme for public service employees, Blue LIght Card, is known to his nearly 11,000 Twitter followers as The SMB Finance Guy. The FP&A leader also runs the highly popular Net Income newsletter regularly posts small business opportunities, scaling companies, systems, strategy, “with a few shitposts thro…

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FP&A at $5m to $50M Companies – Jon Allen and Duke Heninger 48:11

5M ago48:11

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Jon Allen and Duke Heninger, of Utah-based Amplēo, have brought their finance game to fast-growing companies which are between $5m and $50m in revenue. They are “fractional CFOs” – that is experienced finance professionals advising these companies on a part-time basis. For instance, one business they work with, Korean barbeque restaurant Cupbop, ap…

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George Butler Is Not a Villain (w/ Dr. Denis Fortin) 41:32

5M ago41:32

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Michael and Greg sit down with Dr. Denis Fortin to talk about the subject of his forthcoming book: George Ide Butler: A Strong But Misunderstood Leader. Butler is best known for being the General Conference president during the famous 1888 General Conference session, but Fortin makes his case that there is far more to Butler's story. What? Adventis…

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AI: An extension of the FP&A Brain: Didi Gurfinkel Co-Founder and CEO of Datarails 36:21

6M ago36:21

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There are two different directions for AI in finance, says Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder and CEO of Datarails. You can use AI to extend your hands. Or, your brain. He says: ”Using AI to extend your hands involves automating processes, making everything faster, reducing headcount shortening time to deliver, which is amazing. But it’s not a life changer…

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FP&A Vs Finance Business Partners – Tunc Tezel, VP Group FP&A at Ontex 45:30

6M ago45:30

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Tunc Tezel has managed FP&A at companies including Ontex, Pladis, British American Tobacco, Procter & Gamble, and Gillette. He has lived and worked in 11 different countries including the UK, Iran, Sub-saharan Africa, Turkey, Latvia, Belgium Now, Tezel is VP of global FP&A at Ontex, a publicly listed leader in private label manufacturing baby care,…

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A new roadmap for FP&A – with Jack Alexander 53:09

6M ago53:09

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Jack Alexander was our second ever guest on FP&A Today and it remains one of our most downloaded episodes. Here he returns to exclusively launch his new book (published January 2024): Financial Management: Partner in Driving Performance and Value (Wiley Finance) His new book is a post-pandemic and typically practical take on performance management,…

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There's a Wolff in the CAR 47:23

6M ago47:23

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Michael and Greg meet up with our old friend Kevin Burton at the American Society for Church History in San Francisco to talk about Joseph Wolfe. What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast focusing on the academic side of Adventist history and hosted by historians Greg Howell and Michael Campbell. This podcast is a part of the Adventis…

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Winning the Super Bowl of FP&A – with Cayla Pingel 38:31

6M ago38:31

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Cayla Pingel has led FP&A in sports, gaming and entertainment at companies including Warner Bros, Fox Sports and most recently, 2K Games, a global video game company. At Fox Sports she financially quarterbacked the full P&L for the biggest sporting events including the Super Bowl, the World Series, and the NFL Baseball World Cup. The senior Directo…

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My first year as a first-time CFO – CJ Gustafson, CFO, PartsTech 47:23

6M ago47:23

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“I last came on FP&A Today before I started my new CFO gig, and I was pretty nervous. I was talking a lot in theory of what I thought it would be, and now I can tell you a little bit more of the reality. So it's been quite the ride.” Returning guest CJ Gustafson–master of the hugely popular Mostly Metrics newsletter–delivers in his custom funny and…

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How to win at FP&A with Psychology, Strategy and Tradeoffs 45:17

7M ago45:17

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Taylor Otstot is VP of Finance at Dashlane, and former Senior Director of Finance at GoDaddy. He joined GoDaddy a year before their IPO and was there for eight years as the domain registrar and web hosting company scaled from $1.5 billion to $4 billion revenue. “By the time I left I was supporting about a billion and a half of that revenue and I wa…

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Your 12 Biggest FP&A Questions from 2023 Answered 55:03

7M ago55:03

55:03

We have an all-star panel getting into the Christmas and New Year spirit. Howard Tunnicliffe, Head of FP&A, The Economist, and Brett Hampson, Director of Finance, AllState, joinin host Paul Barnhurst, The FP&A Guy in this special edition of FP&A Today. They tackle the 12 most burning questions asked on reddit.com/r/FPandA in 2023. Mid-way we give y…

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How CFOs build a Goldilocks “just-right” budget – Jeff Epstein ex-CFO of Oracle 54:06

7M ago54:06

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Jeff Epstein is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners leading its CFO Council where he helps CEOs and CFOs at their 200- portfolio company share best practices. Epstein, one of the most famous names in finance, is former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oracle, with a market value of over $200 billion. Prior to jo…

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SGV Connect Special Edition : Happy Anniversary, Foothill Transit 15:03

7M ago15:03

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Last Friday, Foothill Transit celebrated its 35th anniversary with a party in the parking lot of its West Covina headquarters. Joe Linton and Chris Greenspon were among those on-hand and they had a chance to catch up with a handful of people that helped shape Foothill Transit's past and will guide the agency into the future. Those short interviews …

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Why and How I built an FP&A Center of Excellence at Verizon - Ed Hyer 45:39

7M ago45:39

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Ed Hyer, as VP FP&A at Verizon, built one of the most ambitious centers of excellence (COEs) undertaken in finance. Put simply, a center of excellence centralizes similar types of work into a single entity. While relatively common for payroll functions or “back-end transactional work”, FP&A presented an altogether bigger challenge for the COE conce…

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Congratulations, Dr. Howell 51:09

8M ago51:09

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He's finally done it! Greg Howell has defended his dissertation and we can stop writing (abd) after his name. We can also stop pretending we knew what his dissertation was on, because Dr. Michael Campbell is sitting down with Dr. Howell to find out. What? Adventist Pilgrimage Podcast is a monthly podcast focusing on the academic side of Adventist h…

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All about Not for Profit FP&A - Amy Omand 47:05

8M ago47:05

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“One of the myths I'd love to dispel is that nonprofits are not strategic. People think we aren’t forward thinking or just scrapping for change and trying to get things done. I've had the honor of working with organizations where we really focus on our mission in a nonprofit context in a very strategic way.” You don’t want to miss this masterclass …

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Special Edition : Jeanie Ward-Waller 23:56

8M ago23:56

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Jeanie Ward-Waller is not a household name in California, but until recently she may have had the most important job in the state as far as Streetsblog readers are concerned. Ward-Waller served as the Deputy Director of Planning and Multimodal Programs at Caltrans, where she not only oversaw many of the great programs that we regularly highlighted …

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When FP&A meets AI, Python, and Excel 46:47

8M ago46:47

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Christian Martinez, Finance Analytics Manager at Kraft Heinz is an in-demand Conference Speaker and specialist who teaches a top-rated course, with (previous guest) Nicolas Boucher. In this episode discover the secrets about game changing uses of AI and Python for your FP&A career. “We’re in the same era as when Excel was first invented,” says Mart…

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