Building a high functioning partnership between BI & FP&A

Episode notes

Wasabi Technologies (a Boston-based cloud storage company with over $530M in funding, a decade of hypergrowth, 450+ team members, and multiple exabytes of storage deployed) sets high standards for its finance and analytics teams. Both teams are under pressure to deliver fast, accurate, and actionable insights. Marcos Bento, Director Business Intelligence at Wasabi Technologies and David Suter, Director, Financial Planning And Analysis at Wasabi Technologies join us for a special two-parter. They delve deep into how their teams work together, across functions to turn raw data into real-time financial intelligence. In this episode: Building and gaining trust between BI and FP&A Getting from “10% out” to within a couple percentage points for forecasting KPIs such as dollars per terabyte BI and FP&A as investigative reporters Predictive analytics: forecast in the 6 or 12 months working with sales The manifesto for AI at Wasabi

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