Webinar Details
Course Description
An efficient and agile budgeting process is crucial for organizational success in today's fast-paced business environment. This webinar will explore the journey from the FP&A’s budget planning to effective budget enforcement, highlighting the importance of streamlined processes that enable scenario planning, challenge assumptions, and align stakeholders. We'll explore how finance teams can encourage employee accountability while managing requests and approvals, ultimately creating a more responsive and effective budgeting ecosystem.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the key components of an efficient budgeting process that facilitates scenario planning and stakeholder alignment.
- Identify strategies for challenging assumptions and promoting critical thinking in the budgeting process.
- Explore best practices for managing employee requests and stakeholder approvals within the budget framework.
- Discover methods for finance teams to enhance employee accountability in budget adherence and execution.
Prerequisites
- None
Who Should Attend
CPAs, accounting/finance professionals who work with budgeting or FP&A
Advanced Preparation
None
Presenter Details
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Chris Wallace
- Solutions Consultant
Chris delivers an exceptional customer experience by first seeking to understand his customers and their business challenges and goals, then clearly communicating how PayEm's platform and technologies can help provide budget management solutions. He leverages over a decade of experience in corporate finance and fintech solutions engineering.
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Jorge Lluch
- COO and Co-founder of Abacum
Jorge Lluch is the COO and Co-founder of Abacum, an FP&A Solution designed for finance teams.
With a foundation in engineering, Jorge began his career at the European Space Agency. He later transitioned into management consulting and investment banking, accumulating over a decade of experience as CFO and COO in high-growth startups. Collaborating closely with visionary founders, Jorge developed a deep understanding of the operational and financial challenges faced by scaling companies. It was during this time that he felt a strong desire to pursue entrepreneurship himself.
For the past few years, he has been dedicated to building Abacum alongside his co-founder and friend, Julio Martínez—a tool designed to address the fr... Read more
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