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FP&A Today

Getting to a great Controller FP&A Relationship – Bill Hanna

Mar 13, 2025
34:25

With nearly 300k subscribers on YouTube, Bill Hanna’s weekly videos on The Financial Controller Channels provide his audience with lessons over a 15-year career in Auditing & Corporate Accounting. He provides inspiration and practices in accounting and finance through his videos and courses “Designed To Save You Years of Learning” (as one reviewer wrote “I have learnt more with you than 3 years studying accounting and finance”).

In this episode:

  • How I stumbled into accounting 
  • Lessons in accounting leadership 
  • The power of mentoring teams about mistakes I make
  • FP&A vs controller 
  • The accounting crisis affecting the CFO’s Office  
  • My accidental influencer journey 
  • Bringing practical explanation of concepts through one company followed across the course
  • The accounting concepts needed to get to CFO
  • Having a wife who is also an accountant 
  • Being a Mac user using Excel 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-hanna-cpa-7653a851/
YouTube channel (Financial Controller) https://www.youtube.com/@TheFinancialController

Courses: https://controller-academy.com/

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