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Managing a remote FP&A Team to Big wins
Manage episode 455964758 series 3351980
Lindsey Martens, VP Finance at fintech company, Valera (Formerly PSCU/Co-op Solutions) talks about her transition from accounting to finance- and how she manages a remote FP&A team that has business partnering and storytelling at its heart. “Business partnering is my favorite thing about FP&A” Martens says, “I love being the translator. I think of myself as taking all this data, accounting data, and then all these other sources that come into it, and I’m packaging it up in a way that is very digestible by the rest of the organization, especially the leaders who are making decisions.”
In this episode:
- Making the pivot to FP&A – why and how
- Starting off in coding and the link to FP&A
- My career at Valera (ex Co-Op solutions)- a fintech leader with clients that are credit unions
- Opps and Challenges of managing a remote FP&A Team
- Small talk at the beginning of meetings (not so small)
- Using rolling forecasts at Valera
- Challenging budget experiences
- Why business partnering is my favorite part of FP&A
- My biggest FP&A success: rooting out the source of at “rise” in profits
- Storytelling in finance
- My biggest mentors and what they taught me about management
- My biggest mistake and how it still leaves me shaking
- Favorite Excel Function
Connect with Lindsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseymartens/
103 episodes
Manage episode 455964758 series 3351980
Lindsey Martens, VP Finance at fintech company, Valera (Formerly PSCU/Co-op Solutions) talks about her transition from accounting to finance- and how she manages a remote FP&A team that has business partnering and storytelling at its heart. “Business partnering is my favorite thing about FP&A” Martens says, “I love being the translator. I think of myself as taking all this data, accounting data, and then all these other sources that come into it, and I’m packaging it up in a way that is very digestible by the rest of the organization, especially the leaders who are making decisions.”
In this episode:
- Making the pivot to FP&A – why and how
- Starting off in coding and the link to FP&A
- My career at Valera (ex Co-Op solutions)- a fintech leader with clients that are credit unions
- Opps and Challenges of managing a remote FP&A Team
- Small talk at the beginning of meetings (not so small)
- Using rolling forecasts at Valera
- Challenging budget experiences
- Why business partnering is my favorite part of FP&A
- My biggest FP&A success: rooting out the source of at “rise” in profits
- Storytelling in finance
- My biggest mentors and what they taught me about management
- My biggest mistake and how it still leaves me shaking
- Favorite Excel Function
Connect with Lindsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseymartens/
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