Anders Liu-Lindberg: Start with Why in FP&A

 

Anders Liu-Lindberg is the co-founder, partner and COO of the Business Partnering Institute and owner of the largest group dedicated to Finance Business Partnering on LinkedIn. He has ten years of experience as a business partner at global transport and logistics company Maersk.

 

Within the world of FP&A, Anders can lay claim to being the most well known voice, blazing a trail for the function's ability to transform businesses. On LinkedIn, he publishes frank and combative insights to an audience of more than 100,000 subscribers throughout the world challenging FP&A to provide more strategic value.

 

In this podcast Anders discusses:

 

• How he moved from "pretty poor numbers" as a LinkedIn creator 10 years ago, to be the leading influencer on FP&A
• Why more voices on FP&A on LinkedIn and other platforms is propelling change for the profession
• Why business partners need to better understand key drivers for their business and translates insights into action
• Why change in FP&A is still not happening on the scale that businesses need to see
• Analytics vs FP&A? Should they be competing
• What is really meant by common buzzwords "business partnering" and digital transformation
• Why he feels that in common with other finance professionals he held himself back for too long to avoid breaking out of his comfort zone.

 

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