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 your accounting and finance careers in 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/

Today’s guest is perhaps the leading CFO name in data and analytics, the ex-CFO of Tableau and DataRobot. Now as Founder & CEO at Caliper, Fletcher draws on over a decade of executive experience at the intersection of finance and analytics. At Caliper, his mission is transform cloud cost and usage data into actionable insights

In this episode Fletcher discusses

• The relationship between analytics and the CFO
• Subscription, net dollar retention, customer retention, and annual recurring revenue as key metrics
• Getting from CFO to CEO and the learning curve
• How we rely on AI and predictive ML and seasonal patterns to find anomalies
• Getting to base analytics and starting in AI
• Challenges and waste with cloud and holding engineers accountable
• The opportunity to save 30% on cloud spend
• Moving from Excel to Google Sheets

Connect with Damon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-fletcher-bb8a6614/

https://calipersoftware.ai

Walmart, Kraft Heinz, Blue Rock Therapeutics, and the Four Seasons hotels are just some of companies that regularly invite Ron Monteiro to coach their finance teams in storytelling. But Ron’s success followed decades of fear in presenting and public speaking in FP&A settings. Starting in accounting at Hitachi (“Ron Monteiro: “it was actually the only job I could get”) the CPA and CMA was inspired by a manager who gave him direction and mentorship doing FP&A as Kraft, as well as work over a decade in daily overcoming his debilitating fears. Now he delivers a playbook to teams across the world where finance is “expected to be at the table, not just tactically, but strategically.”Ron is also the author of a new book: Love Mondays which draws on his experience and interviews with finance leaders.

In this episode

• Fear of public speaking I’ve carried through my life
• Kraft Foods and a leap of faith from my manager
• 15 years at Kraft with 7 jobs and five promotions including FP&A manager, analyst and director
• Transforming Kraft FP&A into strategic value: Kraft Singles and “Getting Our Shit Together” meetings
• Brendan Flynn’s leadership of finance at Kraft developing future finance leaders
• The downward trend of FP&A post 3G Capital’s buyout
• CPG and the essential metrics
• Learning what you can do to grow – listening tour as business partnering and putting your hand up

Love Mondays! A Proven Process to Bring Joy Back Into Your Work Week and Life Paperback by Ron Monteiro https://www.amazon.ca/Love-Mondays-Proven-Process-Bring/dp/B0DPMTVYY3