Evolution of Finance in Consulting

Nicholas Mann, founder and CEO Stratos Consulting, has got the best out of the data for hundreds of companies. He has helped data and analytics leaders go from siloed, heterogeneous data source to a  modeled data warehouse and analytics platforms. In this awesome analytics episode he shares some of his experiences:

• Getting companies on their data journey
• The importance of FP&A not just staying in their lane 
• Inner workings of how data is impacting the rest of the business 
• From deep finance domain expert to understanding the business
• FP&A Data Maturity Assessment 
• When Business Grows – how do FP&A teams grow with them?
• Data Stewards and how they work 
• Creating a finance and FP&A Center of Excellence 
• Why I favor the Snowflake ecosystem 
• What you should hire consultants for – and not hire them for when it comes to finance and data strategy
• People in data: change management challenges
• Using AI for variance analysis 
• About me: rare eye condition achromatopsia and how I have overcome the limitations 

Notes

• fpatoday.scoreapp.com (answer 15 questions to discover where you are in your data data journey)
• https://stratosconsulting.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-mann-80855a1a/