FP&A Today

Mikola Chyzhevskyi, Finance Business Partner at Merlin Entertainments and former law firm finance director, shares stories from fast growth and multi-country operations. He talks forecasting and daily attendance-driven updates. He covers cash, receivables and risk planning, plus working with procurement to validate sustainable costs. He highlights key performance drivers like attendance and guest spend.

Adam Hibbs, Global Director of Commercial Strategy at AICPA & CIMA and CGMA fellow with a background from telecom regulation to commercial finance. He walks through building Josie, a specialized generative AI for accounting and auditing. Learn how Josie differs from general LLMs, its curated dataset and real-time standards updates. Hear about pricing, engineering hurdles, and where AI meets finance next.

Emily Feinstone, an accounting manager who builds automations and is studying data science, discusses the blurring lines between data analysts and accountants. She talks about transforming messy Excel processes into reliable inputs, keeping controls and auditability in automations, practical uses and limits of generative AI, and when to upgrade ERPs versus automate spreadsheets.

The history-making USA Hockey won golds (and millions of fans in the process) at Milan’s Olympic Games. But behind the on-ice glory is a $75 million organization with a finance function as disciplined as its players. Kelly Mahncke , CFO of USA Hockey, joins Glenn Hopper and FP&A Today to pull back the curtain on what it takes to fund the gold-winning national hockey program — with business interests from memberships and sponsorships to restaurants and insurance. Kelly traces her own journey from center ice to chasing the bottom line, explaining how a hockey career shaped her instincts as a finance leader. She walks us through four-year "quad budgets" and the typical annual cycle, and what it took to weather COVID's financial shock, from cash management to the logistical nightmare of paused travel programs. She also gets into the digital transformation underway at USA Hockey. And why she believes curiosity is the defining trait of great FP&A professionals. Catch this fascinating look at finance leadership — at the peak of Hockey USA's Olympic moment.

Sahil Kamani, a Berlin-based senior finance and FP&A leader at Ellie (Volkswagen Group). He recounts moving from credit ratings and regulation into operational finance. He explains hunting quiet risks over loud numbers. He outlines cash-runway KPIs, tailoring reporting to different CFO types, and practical AI wins for automation and variance analysis.

John Glasgow, is the founder, CEO and CFO of Campfire AI native ERP with more than $100m in funding, built to help high growth companies close faster, get richer visibility from their accounting data, and scale. John brings his insights as an operator who has spent time in FP&A and strategic finance, including at Adobe and an executive at Invoice To Go, leading that finance company to a $625 million sale to bill.com. Campfire came out of firsthand frustration with legacy ERPs and a need to rebuild the general ledger for the AI era. In this episode: My years in FP&A and strategic finance at Adobe before becoming a founder  CFA Certification  Invoice to Go acquisition what I learned   The frustration and origin story of frustration and why Campfire was set up Why building our own AI model makes sense  Key quote: “If you slap AI on top of an ERP with summarized revenue data, then you’re essentially gonna get no insights that are of any value.”

Marko Horvat, finance transformation leader and former Gartner VP who has been Controller, head of FP&A and CFO. He discusses friction between finance and IT/CISO, closing the CFO skillset gap, AI reshaping forecasting and audit pattern detection, last-mile adoption of transformation, mindset/skillset/toolset alignment, perpetual-beta forecasting, and why SUBTOTAL is his Excel favorite.

Troy Anderson is CFO of Kelly Services, a staffing solutions provider to various industries, who has spent his career driving transformation across some of the most complex business environments. Before joining Kelly, he served as CFO at Universal Technical Institute, where he helped double revenue over five years through a mix of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he held senior finance leadership roles at Conduent, a $6billion player (bought by Xerox).  Conduent life cycle a $6b public company acquired by Xerox Investor relations at Xerox as a game-changer for my career  Making finance a partner across the value chain Business Process Outsourcing vs AI The need for a deep understanding of your business  Catch the full transcript below

Stephen Hedlund is head of finance at Rillet, an AI-native ERP which has raised over $100million from Sequoia and  Andreessen Horowitz. In  Steven’s words Rillet is “building the modern NetSuite.” In this episode: How Isaac Asimov’s Foundation helped me discover finance  Experience from enterprise at Walmart to building startups  Go-to-market (marketing) to Head of Finance Gillet  The moat for leading ERPs and our strategy  Being the ICP and marketing voice for Rillet  “To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Eddie Reynolds, CEO of UnionSquare Consulting, opens up about the often-fraught relationship between CFOs and CROs. Eddie shares insights from his unique journey—from banking and private equity to being an account executive at Salesforce which forecast within 5% accuracy despite 30%+ growth. The conversation tackles the critical disconnect between finance and go-to-market teams: Why do CFOs struggle to trust CRM pipelines? What breaks when companies hit $50-100M in revenue?  In this episode: How Salesforce was able to forecast with 5% accuracy, The role of FP&A and CROs in go to market strategy and efficiency The issues with LTV to CAC ratio in SaaS  Biggest challenges of the CFO/CRO relationship Bottoms up annual planning working with finance