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Glenn Snyder: The Secrets to Building World-Class FP&A teams

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Glenn Snyder, builds high performing FP&A teams from scratch. 

Now VP of FP&A at Mobileum, a telecom analytics leader, Glenn continues to enhance a reputation for transforming FP&A into an engine for Silicon Valley growth earned over nearly two decades. 

Previously he has built finance partnership teams At Charles Schwab, followed by  revamping annual budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting at $4B global Real Estate company Digital Realty, restructuring  a15-person FP&A team at Global Growth Holdings,  and leveling up the FP&A and Data Analytics teams at online design marketplace Zazzle before his latest FP&A adventure at Mobileum .

In this episode Glenn reveals the secrets to building high performance FP&A teams. Glenn discusses:

  • His reason for sticking with FP&A over 18 years (not least the ability to strategically interact with every aspect of a company)
  • The power of quarterly forecasts to secure alignment in a business and transform a business direction
  • Why building a new FP&A team will see you work 80 hours a week and considerable “mental awareness”
  • The power of creating a three-year FP&A Strategy in your first 90 Days which sees 95% of goals hit
  • The power of eliminating manual work in FP&A
  • How to powerfully speak up in FP&A (even as an introvert)
  • How to differentiate a leader’s role in FP&A vs those you manage 
  • The secrets to hiring  someone for an FP&A role and how to find the things that can be taught vs those that can’t 
  • Why FP&A and data analytics need to work better together 
  • The real way to approach build a successful finance business partnership that lasts
  • His most valuable lessons after achieving several finance software implementations 
  • The failure that forced Glenn to work on his soft skills and transformed his career
  • His secret life as a lifelong baseball fan and published  author 

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