If there’s one thing I’ve had a lot of practice at over my career as both a senior finance professional and a general manager, it’s difficult conversations. Most of them went poorly in the early days of my career. Not
Our Brains Don’t Help In Finance For those of you who follow me on Linkedin you will have seen I spent this week “across the ditch” in New Zealand. In a lovely city called Hamilton, about 100km south of Auckland.
You know the scenes from the Lethal Weapon movies. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) staring down another explosion, car chase or hostage situation, sighs and mutters the immortal line: “I’m too old for this sh*t.” (or maybe you haven’t seen Lethal
Years ago I was chatting with a director from another function about something they needed done and I asked: “Do you know who to go to for this?” She smiled, shrugged and said, “Who knows, I usually just go straight
How do we embed your finance business partnering training into our team after you have finished the program, Andrew? It’s probably the most common question I get from the CFOs I work with who have allowed me the honour of
You may or may not have heard this metaphor before but it’s one of my favourites….. Finance lives in the zoo, while the rest of the business lives in the jungle. Sounds insulting, it’s not. What it does do is
The question used to be whether finance teams should bother with AI. That question is over. According to Gartner’s 2025 AI in Finance Survey, 59 percent of finance leaders now report using AI in their function. That figure has more
Ask anyone outside of Finance what they want from Finance, and they will say “Insights” Ask them what do you mean and they’ll say “I don’t know you work it out” So today I am going to help you not
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What KPIs can I set my finance team around Finance Business Partnering? It’s one of the most common questions I get asked when I am working deeply with a CFO around their capability build. There’s only one. Well there’s only
Firstly let me state that I think AI is hugely important for any finance professional or function in the future. I love it and use it daily (and no it didn’t write this newsletter) But when I read all of
Every time you get a chance to present you get a chance to propel your career. Likewise any time you get a chance to present you get a chance to destroy your career. So you better get good at it
