Spoiler alert, this article may feel uncomfortable to finance. Nevertheless, its time to step into that……. It’s the Tuesday before the board pack goes out. A senior analyst, let’s call him Josh, walks over to my desk with the look
Three job ads. Three different titles. One description. I see it constantly. A Finance Business Partner role that is a month end close job with a nicer name. An FP&A role that is really a budget administrator. A Management Accountant
Most finance presentations I have sat through fail before slide three. Not because the analysis is wrong. Not because the data isn’t robust. They fail because the person presenting hasn’t thought about what they actually want to say – or
I spent a large part of my corporate career standing in front of a whiteboard with a black (sometimes red) Texta in my hand. Before Excel was opened. Before formulas were written. Before tabs were colour-coded. I would sketch the
It’s the question many finance professionals are internally asking themselves. Will finance be replaced by AI? The short answer is no. The longer answer is the one that should keep you up at night. The headline you keep seeing, “AI
It’s one of the most common questions I get asked….”Andrew I am about to start a new FBP role have you got any tips for what I should focus on”. So lets do this, what you should focus on in
Most finance professionals I work with aren’t short on effort. They work long hours. They care deeply about doing things properly. They’re loyal to their organisations. They patiently wait their turn. Unfortunately many are quietly confused – and frustrated –
Most finance professionals will tell you networking is important. They’ll also admit they don’t really do it. At least not in a deliberate, consistent way and not until they need it – it’s one of those important things we put
Well 2026 is here now can you believe it? A new year, new opportunities, and a familiar temptation to talk more, explain more, justify more. Finance professionals are brilliant at filling space. Silence makes us uncomfortable. It feels like we’re
Most finance professionals think marketing is manipulation, fluff, or something best left to people with bright slides and questionable metrics. Which is ironic – because most finance professionals have no training in marketing and are some of the worst marketers
Steve Jobs is one of the most iconic presenters of the last 50 years. Some may say World Class. However people viewed him, and opinions vary, one thing was for sure – when he turned up to Macworld to present
In every finance team I’ve ever worked with, there’s one topic that consistently gets overlooked because it doesn’t feel exciting, strategic, or commercial. Yet it’s the thing that quietly determines whether your team spends its time adding value… or adding
In over twenty years working in finance, and ten years training finance teams, I never once had a spreadsheet tell me a lie. Plenty of people did. But the spreadsheet itself? Never. Now I’m hearing more and more stories from
You know the moment. You have finished the pack. The numbers are right. You have checked them twice. You walk into the room, start on slide four, and within ninety seconds the Sales Director has picked up his phone. He
At some point in every Finance Business Partner’s career, the juggling act becomes impossible to ignore. You’re managing your own finance workload, supporting the business leaders you partner with, and somehow expected to keep an eye on the bigger strategic
Let me start by saying I got lots of promotions early on in my career. And often. Then they dried up and were less frequent until I realised the following… Promotions don’t always go to the hardest worker, the most
