by Andy | Apr 14, 2021 | FD Insights
What’s the difference between a finance analyst, finance manager, finance business partner, and a CFO❓ Well it’s a trick question. They are all FBP roles for me, on the basis that FBP means: 1️⃣ building relationships 2️⃣ turning data into insights 3️⃣...
by Andy | Apr 14, 2021 | FD Insights
Do you want to become a FD or CFO❓ Here’s another tip that helped me… ❌ marketeers know that the worst way to bring numbers to life is to… …use a table of numbers ✅ the best way is to pick the 3️⃣ most important numbers, and make them big The average finance...
by Andy | Apr 14, 2021 | FD Insights
Ever wondered why you’re left out of the important discussions❓…this could be the reason 👇🏻 Commercial decisions are rarely, if ever, made based on a budget. Commercial decisions are based on: ✅ what’s happening in the market NOW, not what we budgeted for ✅ what our...
by Andy | Apr 14, 2021 | FD Insights
CFOs know how to make it rain harder and longer. Do you❓ I think there are 4 types of people in any organisation: 1️⃣ The ones that make it rain in the first place 2️⃣ The ones that help make it rain harder and longer 3️⃣ The ones that catch the rain in a bucket and...
by Andy | Apr 14, 2021 | FD Insights
CFOs know how to get promoted. Do you❓ Every job I had on my way to FD I did these 3 things: 1️⃣ DELEGATE I would push down between 50% and 95% that was handed over to me to my team. The bigger my teams got, the higher the % got. This freed up my time to do new...