FP&A Today

FP&A from Fortune 100 to Scrappy Startups – Mike Dion


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Mike Dion works at a Fortune 100 company. He has previously worked as a finance leader at Verizon-as well as startups and as a mentor to  enterprise giants to scrappy startups—unlocking tens of millions of dollars in value across industries like Entertainment and Telecom.  He does this through Mike’s F9 Finance:  a no nonsense website and newsletter (with 20k subscribers) passing on the skills that have accelerated his career, providing a guide to new tools (based on his experience automating 100,000 hours of labour) and secrets to promotion. He tells Glenn Hopper: “Three things, increasing revenue, decreasing expenses, and making your leaders look good. Those are the three things that move your career, not the reports, not the forecast tools to get to that.”

In this episode 

  • Passion in media and entertainment 
  • putting in our first consolidated planning system
  • At Verizon starting a center of Excellence (after facing a situation where 40 VPs wanted 30 decks based on Excel files   
  • Lack of approachable finance content: introducing Mike’s F9 Finanance   
  • Secrets to dynamic modeling and scenario planning 
  • 3 Ways teams are getting overwhelmed with forecasts  
  • Better prompting and my relationship with AI
  • A completely new answer for Fave Excel Function
  • F9 Finance: https://www.f9finance.com/ 

    F9 Finance YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@f9finance

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