How to ignore the loud numbers and listen for the quiet risks: Sahil Kamani
How to ignore the loud numbers and listen for the quiet risks: Sahil Kamani
Sahil Kamani, is a Berlin-based senior finance leader and FP&A professional at Ellie (Volkswagen Group), Starting at a credit rating agency in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis — inspired, fittingly, by a fascination with the documentary Inside Job — Sahil moved through regulation, capital markets, and an MBA before pivoting into operational finance
In this episode:
- Being the person handing out credit ratings
- Cash burn and the KPIs that matter most in a turnaround
- What bankers and regulators instinctively look for
- How the CFO you work influences your storytelling
- Being CFO of Berlin's fastest-growing pickleball club.
Sahil R Kamani on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahilrkamani/
What an AI-Native General Ledger Means for FP&A: John Glasgow
What an AI-Native General Ledger Means for FP&A: John Glasgow
John Glasgow, is the founder, CEO and CFO of Campfire AI native ERP with more than $100m in funding, built to help high growth companies close faster, get richer visibility from their accounting data, and scale. John brings his insights as an operator who has spent time in FP&A and strategic finance, including at Adobe and an executive at Invoice To Go, leading that finance company to a $625 million sale to bill.com. Campfire came out of firsthand frustration with legacy ERPs and a need to rebuild the general ledger for the AI era.
In this episode:
- My years in FP&A and strategic finance at Adobe before becoming a founder
- CFA Certification
- Invoice to Go acquisition what I learned
- The frustration and origin story of frustration and why Campfire was set up
- Why building our own AI model makes sense
Key quote: “If you slap AI on top of an ERP with summarized revenue data, then you’re essentially gonna get no insights that are of any value.”
Perspectives from Controller, FP&A, CFO and Gartner: Marko Horvat
Perspectives from Controller, FP&A, CFO and Gartner: Marko Horvat
Marko Horvat has been a public accountant, Controller, head of FP&A and CFO, as well as VP in Gartner's research and advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation.
In this episode he talks:
- Interplay IT and CISO and organizational politics (“if it runs on electricity, it’s ours”)
CFO skillsets gap - Real change in CFO’s Office with AI (audit pattern recognition to forecasting)
- Last mile transformation in finance
- Mindset, skillset, toolset transformation
- Treating forecast as in perpetual beta
- The power of the subtotal function
Recommended books:
There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
35 Years in Finance and constant change: Troy Anderson CFO at Kelly Services
35 Years in Finance and constant change: Troy Anderson CFO at Kelly Services
Troy Anderson is CFO of Kelly Services, a staffing solutions provider to various industries, who has spent his career driving transformation across some of the most complex business environments. Before joining Kelly, he served as CFO at Universal Technical Institute, where he helped double revenue over five years through a mix of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he held senior finance leadership roles at Conduent, a $6billion player (bought by Xerox).
- Conduent life cycle a $6b public company acquired by Xerox
- Investor relations at Xerox as a game-changer for my career
- Making finance a partner across the value chain
- Business Process Outsourcing vs AI
- The need for a deep understanding of your business
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