The Financial Modelling Podcast

The final episode of the Financial Modelling Podcast Season 3 was recorded live as we came together from all four corners of the globe. How do we keep connection and community going when opportunities to meet face to face are limited? The host of the Financial Modelling Podcast, Matthew Bernath joins from Johannesburg, Virtual Meetup host and Financial Modeller, Danielle Stein Fairhurst in Sydney, are joined by Jordan Goldmeier from New York and Tea Kuseva from London.

Jordan Goldmeier is an internationally recognized analytics professional and data visualization expert. In this podcast, we chat about the use of Excel as a data analytics tool, what Microsoft tools data analysts should be focusing on, and his work helping managers communicate, challenge, and visualize data between teams.

In this podcast, I chat with Ian Bennett, Partner, Deals Modelling, PwC Australia about financial modelling in the cloud and other financial modelling innovations.  Who will take the first step into a new financial modelling world?

Tatiana Ufimtceva from keySkillset has led a fascinating life, that has taken her from her hometown in Russia to New York where she founded the Excel training company. keySkillset gamifies training and recently was awarded a Financial Modelling Innovation Award for Education.  The awards complemented their fresh, enjoyable and engaging approach to financial modelling training.  In this interview we chat about the importance of education and bringing people together from across the globe.

I've been addicted to Arixcel since I first saw it in January of 2016.  Since then, I can't work in Excel without this simple, yet powerful add-in!  From advanced formula interrogation, Arixcel has expanded its offering to include formula maps and workbook comparison functionality.  In this podcast, I chat with Igor Popov, Arixcel creator, on why simpler is better.

In Episode 13 of Season 3, I discuss the intersection of financial modelling and data analytics with Neil Macdonald and Paul van Loon from Forecast.  What is the role of data analytics in financial modelling, and how do these two key skills complement each other?  This is a special Financial Modelling Summit edition of the podcast.

In this episode I catch up with Kenny Whitelaw-Jones from Season 3 sponsor, Gridlines.  We discuss the current global pandemic, and how the Financial Modelling Summit was born.  

In this episode, I chat to Craig Steward from Corinium Global Intelligence on the current state of data analytics, and how his business has transformed to offer digital events.  We discuss the future of analytics and how the COVID-19 pandemic has put data analytics in the spotlight.

In Episode 10, I catch up with Nathaniel Baker, host of The Contrarian Investor Podcast.  We discuss how the markets seem to be behaving in a contrarian fashion these days, and what his forecast is for the market and economic trends.  From globalisation to movie theatres, we discuss it all!

As most of us are isolating at home during this pandemic, and coffee shops around the world are closed, we still crave a good brew to fuel our financial modelling!  Enter roasteries offering speciality coffee for home brewing.  Whether you're drinking espresso, a cortado, a pour-over or a french press coffee as you tune in, hear some home brewing tips from Dario Scilipoti from BlueBird Coffee Roastery!