From Data to Decisions - How Wasabi's FP&A and BI Teams Execute at Scale
FP&A Today · 2025-09-03 · 41 min
Episode notes
What do FP&A professionals need to understand about data work and BI and the work that BI is doing? Marcos Bento, Director BI, at Wasabi Technologies: “They need to translate business requests in English in a way that the BI folks can translate that into codes. That’s where the magic happens.” In part two of our deep dive with Marcos Bento (BI) and David Suter (FP&A) from Wasabi Technologies, we explore the execution side of their successful data partnership. In this episode: Our 130-Iteration Journey: Net retention metric evolution Cost per dollar of new ARR (and how settled on it) Storytelling across technical and executive audiences Lean team compositions (4-person FP&A, 5-person BI) Power of the problem solving skillset in our hiring
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