Budget Battles, Politics, and AI: CFO Anna Tiomina

FP&A Today

Anna Tiomina has faced multiple FP&A challenges in a 15-year finance career. This has included budget nightmares, all-nighters, and the stark realization that “politics” is central to any FP&A or finance role.
The former CFO of Sandoz, a huge pharmaceutical company, describes her move to finance chief at Softeq, a smaller IT and consulting firm. Most recently she has pivoted to become a fractional CFO with a passion to help finance professionals bridge the gap between “curiosity and confident AI adoption”. In this honest and frank interview, Anna describes

• The challenges for anyone in a full time finance role when you don’t have enough time to look at new things
• Structuring FP&A in a big company vs a smaller one
• Comparing and contrasting FP&A at a large and big companies
• Budget war stories
• When your key accounting person… is not an accountant
• Ensuring a higher level of agility in budgeting
• Using AI in a safe way in FP&A
  Connect with Anna at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-tiomina/
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