FP&A Today

Budget Battles, Politics, and AI: CFO Anna Tiomina

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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 “politics” is central to any FP&A or finance role.

The former CFO of Sandoz, a huge pharmaceutical company,  describes her move to finance chief at Softeq, a smaller IT and consulting firm. Most recently she has pivoted to become a fractional CFO with a passion to help finance professionals bridge the gap between “curiosity and confident AI adoption”. In this honest and frank interview, Anna describes

  • The challenges for anyone  in a full time finance role when you don’t have enough time to look at new things
  • Structuring FP&A in a big company vs a smaller one
  • Comparing and contrasting FP&A at a large and big companies
  • Budget war stories
  • When your key accounting person… is not an accountant 
  • Ensuring a higher level of agility in budgeting
  • Using AI in a safe way in FP&A

    • Connect with Anna at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-tiomina/
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    Subscribe to her insights at: https://balancedai-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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