INSIGHTS
FP&A, exit diligence, KPIs, data and finance careers
6 October 2026
The board asks a reasonable question. Can we take this contract on without hiring? Finance says it will come back next week.
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1 October 2026
A contract start date moved from 1 October to 1 November. Finance has updated the forecast.
24 September 2026
A board meets and asks finance a narrow question. Can we delay one delivery hire by six weeks?
23 September 2026
If you want to know where FP&A is headed, don’t just look at trends—listen to the people shaping them.
19 August 2026
The framework predates the deal, the sponsor is measuring a different thesis, and nobody has said it out loud.
13 August 2026
Nineteen bids. Two thousand investor questions. A finance team of six that nearly broke before the deal was done.
28 July 2026
A conversation with a Head of Finance who built his own reporting layer, hit its ceiling, and learned what has to come before the tools.
15 July 2026
What nineteen finance leaders told us about the state of FP&A in UK mid-market businesses, and why the problem is design, not effort.
7 July 2026
Seventy percent of mid-market FP&A functions fall short of what private equity expects. The question is which side of that line your function sits on.
Private equity rewards predictability, speed and control. Most finance functions are built for none of the three.
