A short interview-style YouTube segment (speaker: Paul Barnhurst) about what makes great FP&A leaders. The speaker emphasizes that top finance partners focus on serving the business by tailoring how they support and influence the executive team—especially understanding the CEO’s priorities, strengths, and blind spots—and adjusting where they spend time to complement leadership needs.
How would you define great fba? Yeah. It all comes down to how are you serving the business? When I think about this role, how am I as a partner to the rest of the executive team? How well do I understand our CEO, my boss, and, like, what he is interested in, what he's good at, what he's not good at, the questions he's going to ask or should be asking, and kind of really fluctuating how I show up and, like, where I spend my time to kind of round out around those needs and help influence the overall direction of the business. Because at the end of the day, there are a lot of different versions of the finance function.
Trust and Leadership Lessons for FP&A From 100+ Top Leaders with CFO Jon Laudie
