Christian Wattig: Getting from Good to Great in FP&A

Christian Wattig is one of the world’s leading experts in FP&A having led teams at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Squarespace. Today Christian is FP&A Solution Architect, Datarails, and manages the top-rated FP&A Bootcamp explicitly designed for professionals who work full-time and want to ramp up their FP&A game.

In this wide-ranging interview Christian provides actionable advice for any FP&A professional:

➡How FP&A can help marketing attribution 

➡The need for FP&A to embrace Gray Areas

➡The importance of curiosity 

➡His FP&A Bootcamp teaching hundreds of FP&A leaders 

➡Hard-won secrets for business partnering 

➡The need to forecast ranges

➡How to cope with vast data 

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With Datarails on your side for FP&A you get improved data integrity and visibility helping your relationships with your internal business partners and external stakeholders; real-time latest version of all your company’s data in one place, with version control, audit trail and records, ensuring errors and multiple versions are avoided; the ability to let your data tell your story through proprietary, built-in visualization of critical KPIs in real-down; and drill-downs to answer questions on underlying data on the spot.

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