“CFOs can’t just view FP&A as a team in finance. They need to turn FP&A strengths into an enterprise capability.” (4:58) — Randeep Rathindran, Gartner Distinguished VP

Episode highlights: 

• The current state of FP&A, according to CFOs (1:07)
• What’s driving the extremely high demand for FP&A? (2:11)
• Why automation has been a disappointment for creating capacity for FP&A (3:12)
• Three actions that turn FP&A into an enterprise capability (6:05)
• FP&A hasn’t learned how to optimize AI. Here’s why. (13:34)

Gartner Distinguished VP Randeep Rathindran has a primary research focus on the CFO and FP&A leader roles, covering the key initiatives of Enterprise Growth and Cost, Financial Data and Analytics, and Finance Organization Transformation. He led syndicated research in a number of practice areas, including research and technology, corporate strategy, operations, and shared services, prior to joining Gartner’s finance research and advisory practice in 2014. He has extensive experience in quantitative research and econometric modeling.