In this episode, Simon talks to Tejas Parikh, the finance planning and analysis transformation specialist. He's got a finance background, he's commercially minded and in love with technology.

Tejas is the founder and lead consultant at his very own consulting business, Akshar Business Consulting. Tejas has worked with a diverse range of companies, including GE Healthcare, Vodafone, Unilever and more. In this episode, he shares some fabulous stories about his life and experience in finance. Posting depreciation journals where the asset balances went up. 🤯 That's a geeky accounting joke because depreciation takes asset balances down not up. 🤓 Yeah that's right. 😆🤙

We talks about how to be good in FP&A, and finance in general, it's about working smarter and not harder. Embrace tech to do the hard work for you. The best way to get promoted is to create more bandwidth by automating as much as possible so you can get into the business strategy.

He shares his power pose memory, creating an investor paper in record time and dancing around the office in London. He also shares some of his FP&A rules and top tips like anything which takes more than 45 minutes can and should be automated. And if you don't learn today, you're gonna have a disaster tomorrow.

Tejas is one of the most energetic and charismatic people I've ever spoken to. And I know you're gonna enjoy this episode and I hope you'll be laughing along with us.

ENJOY!

Useful links

Host: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritchie/

Sponsor: https://www.blox.so/

Sponsor Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blox-plan

Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejasparikh/

Guest website: https://aksharconsulting.co.uk/

Welcome to the Finance & Technology Podcast.

This is a show where we dive into all things Technology for Finance teams. We interview other finance-techies, finance leaders and industry legends who share their stories, strategies, insights to help you build & grow your career in finance.

What if I told you that a role in finance didn't have to be about babysitting the numbers?

I believe in a world where finance people no longer need to spend their days manually keying numbers, copying and pasting in spreadsheets, or sending reports that nobody looks at.

Where finance people can harness technology to automate and streamline their world, everything is fully integrated.

You have full confidence so you can spend your time generating insight and doing strategic finance.

For those of you who don't know us, we're Simon and Pip. Simon is the founder of Blox. He's a chartered accountant who used to work in finance, but he's a techie at heart. He created Blox to help millions of businesses to automate and streamline planning and forecasting, so it's a strategic value add rather than a tick box for the board of directors.

And I'm Pip, The producer of the show. I'll be working behind the scenes, but you'll hear from me now and again.

I got into finance because I love numbers. I studied for years to learn about accounting. But when I started my first role, I felt underprepared. There was all sorts of software to learn and so much manual painstaking work, manually tagging bank transactions and lots of manually updating spreadsheets. I just didn't understand the finance technology landscape, what we used and why, or how to make it better.

We want to help everybody to see what technology is available and what new technology is coming.

I believe that finance teams are currently behind the curve in terms of technology adoption. They are overworked and just trying to keep up with month-end and key controls. CFOs are having to do more with less people. There is some fantastic technology out there and it's becoming affordable and easy for those who are ready to step forward and grab it.

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