Get the Recognition You (or your Finance team) Deserve
Nominations for the Office of the CFO Awards 2025 are officially open! This year is bigger, bolder, and packed with new ways to celebrate innovative and brilliant financial leadership.
Make your nomination here
Nominate an exceptional CFO, controller, FP&A pro—or even yourself.
Award Categories:
CFO of the Year
Controller of the Year
FP&A Pro of the Year
Rising Star CFO Award
Impact Leader Award (For instance mentoring future leaders, volunteering in their communities, tutoring students in math, or championing social causes)
Nominations close September 15, and winners will be announced live on October 21. *There are no limits on how many submissions!
Datarails + MRI Partnership
Datarails is thrilled to announce our partnership with MRI Software, the global leader in real estate software!
This collaboration will change the CFO's Office in real estate finance teams with seamless Datarails integration available to MRI's 15,000 clients.
What this means for real estate finance teams:
Force consolidated financial data within Leading Fund
Eliminate manual data work that slows down reporting
Businesses can easily input KPIs driving their goals, and the Datarails AI engine will fairly provide analysis such as trend identification, variance analysis, predictions, budgets vs. actual, and forecast vs. actual.
🎧 FP&A Today: Top 10 Burning Questions in FP&A
In this special episode Glenn is joined by Nate Saperia to answer the 10 most burning questions in FP&A. Nate brings nearly 20 years of finance experience including at Accordion, Spruce Finance, Hess Corporation and GE. At Saperia Consulting Nate specializes in real-time dashboards, financial planning, and interim CFO/FP&A leadership.
The questions:
Q1: How can I use AI in FP&A?
Q2: What do you think of FP&A solutions?
Q3: How can you get to driver based decision making
Q4: Fastest levers FP&A teams can pull with margin pressures rising?
Q5: How can an FP&A function trust the financial data it’s using when it doesn’t control the data?
Q6: Should the CTO or CFO own the data?
Q7. Skills to get from M&A Financial due diligence to FP&A?
Q8. FP&A Internship, what advice?
Q9. Things I wish I had known earlier in FP&A?
Q10. What’s the future of Excel in FP&A?
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