FP&A Today

From a deep struggle with personal skills to Storytelling Leader


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Walmart, Kraft Heinz, Blue Rock Therapeutics, and the Four Seasons hotels are just some of companies that  regularly invite Ron Monteiro to coach their finance teams in storytelling. But Ron’s success followed decades of fear in presenting and public speaking in FP&A settings. Starting in accounting at Hitachi (“Ron Monteiro: “it was actually the only job I could get”) the CPA and CMA was inspired by a manager who gave him direction and mentorship doing FP&A as Kraft, as well as work over a decade in daily overcoming his debilitating fears. Now he delivers a playbook to teams across the world where finance is “expected to be at the table, not just tactically, but strategically.”Ron is also the author of a new book: Love Mondays which draws on his experience and interviews with finance leaders.  

In this episode 

  • Fear of public speaking I’ve carried through my life 
  • Kraft Foods and a leap of faith from my manager
  • 15 years at Kraft with 7 jobs and five promotions including FP&A manager, analyst and director 
  • Transforming Kraft FP&A into strategic value: Kraft Singles and “Getting Our Shit Together” meetings
  • Brendan Flynn’s leadership of finance at Kraft developing future finance leaders 
  • The downward trend of FP&A post 3G Capital’s buyout 
  • CPG and the essential metrics 
  • Learning what you can do to grow – listening tour as business partnering and putting your hand up
  • Love Mondays! A Proven Process to Bring Joy Back Into Your Work Week and Life Paperback by Ron Monteiro https://www.amazon.ca/Love-Mondays-Proven-Process-Bring/dp/B0DPMTVYY3

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