FP&A Today

May the FP&A Be with you: a hero’s journey from Pixar, Lucasfilm, and LinkedIn (with Craig Barry)


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Craig Barry has held senior finance roles at some of the most iconic companies in tech and entertainment, including LinkedIn, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Electronic Arts. At LinkedIn, he led central forecasting, supported more than 10 acquisitions, and played a key role in the company’s integration with Microsoft before becoming Head of FP&A at BioRender- building FP&A from the ground up helping the company scale ARR from $18 million to $50 million. Now Barry is principal consultant at ClearSightIQ.

In this episode 

  • My winding road to strategic finance 
  • Junior FP&A Analyst position at Electronic Arts as my first break 
  • Cost center focus in creative industries at EA with $3b sales
  • LucasFilm (pre-Disney) run as a sole proprietorship by George Lucas 
  • Pixar head of finance for their Canadian operations and production planning 
  • LinkedIn and focus on “revenue, revenue, revenue”
  • FP&A focus on modeling for acquisitions at LinkedIn and “virtual” P&Ls
  • Strategy for building out FP&A from scratch at BioRender 
  • My fractional CFO life 
  • ...more
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