Alejandro Covarrubias’ Post

#givingback Post 1: Points that can help convert FP&A interview This June I complete 8 years into the field of FP&A. I have been fortunate enough to have worked with brilliant minds, extra-ordinary business leaders, great mentors and never to forget about the friendships that I can cherish forever. Recently, I have also been involved for hirings and therefore wanted to share the pointers (applicable for 2-5 yrs of FP&A work ex) that people may want to leverage in case they are looking out for change and appearing in an interview. 1. Ensure that you know well about the role whether it’s for Corporate FP&A ( that majorly works for CFO office and overall company financials and budgeting ) or Business FP&A (Supporting specific segment with financial analysis, budgeting, consistently updating owners of the segment about financial performance and areas of improvement with advisory) 2. Should know full fledge process of budgeting and forecasting. This involves explanation around top down approach, distribution of targets, bottoms up approach and in the end marrying top down & bottoms up 3. Make sure to put pointers that exhibits quantitative impact that you have made in your existing or previous jobs 4. Should show calibre that about how well you are integrated with your P&L and how do you impact each line of it. Always give business flavour to each pointer you make 5. Display how you have solved a problem using technology 6. Demonstrate how often you are involved in decision making and interacting with key stakeholders 7. In the end, be genuine and take a strong stand in the views you present supported by logic. If I am missing something, pls add more in comment section. Hope it helps you land your another adventure. My next post would be for FP&A professionals with 0-2 yrs work ex who want to switch. Stay tuned!!

Is your Chart of Accounts and ERP system optimized to do the heavy lifting or does it create the burden downstream and impede your analysis, reporting and performance improvement initiatives? Masthead Financial & Capital Advisors knows how to harness the power of ERP systems to do the heavy lifting they were designed for and increase your integrations, automations and business process rules so that you can focus on the exceptions rather than touching every transactions and constantly cleaning up data.

Impressive perspective shared by Masthead Financial & Capital Advisors. Check it out! #BusinessGrowth #FractionalServices #FractionalCFO #FractionalCOO #FractionalBanker #TransactionNavigation #FinancialConsulting #BankingStrategy #FinancialAdvisory #StrategicAdvisors #PrivateEquity #InvestmentSuccess #MastheadFCA

💪Tackle quick wins as an FP&A Manager, help your business partners win, and develop credibility and a confidence boost. Read the full article: How to crush your first 6 months as an FP&A Manager ▸ https://lttr.ai/ATS6A #businesspartners #careers #fpandhey #fpanda

Hiring a skilled consultant for FP&A can benefit your small business in many ways. Learn more in this article by Robert Half’s Jason Flanders. #RHThoughtLeader #ManagementResources https://bit.ly/3XRFR2g

Discover how an interim director of FP&A helped automate the financial reporting infrastructure of a publicly traded $1 billion retail company in just a matter of weeks. Drawing on 15+ years of experience, they took on staff shortages and tight deadlines with precision and efficiency. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eqGjxPdB. #casestudy | #interimexecutiveservices | #financialplanningandanalysis

Are you an FP&A professional? If you answered yes then you need to follow my friend Drew Murphy and his Linkedin page Fp&Hey for some insightful content that is immediately digestible and usable in your daily work life as a Financial Analyst, no matter if you are just starting out or 20+ years into your career.

Discover how an interim director of FP&A helped automate the financial reporting infrastructure of a publicly traded $1 billion retail company in just a matter of weeks. Drawing on 15+ years of experience, they took on staff shortages and tight deadlines with precision and efficiency. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/daMWQ6AR. #casestudy | #interimexecutiveservices | #financialplanningandanalysis

Discover how an interim director of FP&A helped automate the financial reporting infrastructure of a publicly traded $1 billion retail company in just a matter of weeks. Drawing on 15+ years of experience, they took on staff shortages and tight deadlines with precision and efficiency. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gVcHBpGY. #casestudy | #interimexecutiveservices | #financialplanningandanalysis

Discover how an interim director of FP&A helped automate the financial reporting infrastructure of a publicly traded $1 billion retail company in just a matter of weeks. Drawing on 15+ years of experience, they took on staff shortages and tight deadlines with precision and efficiency. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gjjvWgQR. #casestudy | #interimexecutiveservices | #financialplanningandanalysis