FP&A Today

Christian Wattig: Getting from Good to Great in FP&A


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Christian Wattig is one of the world’s leading experts in FP&A having led teams at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Squarespace. Today Christian is FP&A Solution Architect, Datarails, and manages the top-rated FP&A Bootcamp explicitly designed for professionals who work full-time and want to ramp up their FP&A game.

In this wide-ranging interview Christian provides actionable advice for any FP&A professional:

➡How FP&A can help marketing attribution 

➡The need for FP&A to embrace Gray Areas

➡The importance of curiosity 

➡His FP&A Bootcamp teaching hundreds of FP&A leaders 

➡Hard-won secrets for business partnering 

➡The need to forecast ranges

➡How to cope with vast data 

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FP&A Today is brought to you by Datarails.

Datarails is the financial planning and analysis platform that automates data consolidation, reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue using their own Excel spreadsheets and financial models.

With Datarails on your side for FP&A you get improved data integrity and visibility helping your relationships with your internal business partners and external stakeholders; real-time latest version of all your company’s data in one place, with version control, audit trail and records, ensuring errors and multiple versions are avoided; the ability to let your data tell your story through proprietary, built-in visualization of critical KPIs in real-down; and drill-downs to answer questions on underlying data on the spot.

Get in touch at www.datarails.com

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