FP&A Today: Matthew Bernath, Host of The Financial Modelling Podcast

Matthew Bernath, based in South Africa, has been a financial modeler for 15 years. Such was his thirst to learn best practices in the field, he set up a podcast, The Financial Modelling Podcast. Eighty episodes and 100,000 followers later The Financial Modelling Podcast  is  now  ranked as one of the  top finance podcasts.

Matthew is head of data ecosystems at Shoprite. In  his previous role, Matthew steered the data analytics capability of Rand Merchant Bank, building a Rand-wide data ecosystem. He is also a startup investor.

In this special crossover edition between FP&A Today and The Financial Modelling Podcast Paul Barnhurst (aka The FP&A Guy) and Matthew Bermath, explore:

• Why Many FP&A teams are missing a trick to perform real analysis (the “a” in FP&A)
• How FP&A can better use financial modeling
• Key skills you need to improve your financial modeling
• The vital importance of understanding macro events in FP&A

Matthew then turns the tables asking Paul key questions such as

• His take on the state of FP&A?
• How non-finance people (who hate finance) should approach dreaded budgeting and finance?

 

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