FP&A Today

FP&A "Wow" Moments at $10m companies


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Australian-born Luke Mulcahy started in FP&A at larger businesses including Coates Group (internet leader in Sydney) and manufacturing company Sherwin-Williams. But for nearly 4 years he has loved having “wow” moments of finance insights with smaller companies. closer to the $5-10million range, where powerful insights are taken straight from finance to the CFO. In his words: “You can have those moments a lot more frequently with small business owners and just tell them what they’re, what they’re missing, what they haven’t got eyes on.”

In this episode:

  • Forecasting energy consumption for a utility company in Australia
  • The fear and strategy of becoming a fractional CFO 
  • The ideal set up for FP&A in small businesses 
  • Why big companies often have big data problems (and cleaning that data)
  • Big FP&A wins in small business
  • Solving the date problem in Excel 
  • ...more
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