Kenneth Fick: FP&A as Influence without Power

Kenneth Fick, had it in his background to be in FP&A: His father spent 40 years in FP&A at Fisher Price.

Ken is now Vice President of Financial Planning Analysis at Citrin Cooperman which is a $350 million accounting tax and advisory firm based in New York. In this interview Kenneth discusses:

• Being a 20-year-old watching the chaos unfold at Circuit City which is now taught as an example of corporate failure in America
• While technical skills get you first roles, you get promoted through skills in influence and storytelling
• Becoming a leading name in FP&A through his writing – including a viral article about how to exactly define to a stranger what FP&A is, at a cocktail party
• His budget process and love of budgeting as a means of listening to the company
• Why it angers him that FP&A is being judged on predictions
• How fuzzy data is at the core of FP&A
• Linear regression and statistical modeling in Excel

 

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