Anders Liu-Lindberg is the co-founder, partner and COO of the Business Partnering Institute and owner of the largest group dedicated to Finance Business Partnering on LinkedIn. He has ten years of experience as a business partner at global transport and logistics company Maersk.
 
Within the world of FP&A, Anders can lay claim to being the most well known voice, blazing a trail for the function's ability to transform businesses. On LinkedIn, he publishes frank and combative insights to an audience of more than 100,000 subscribers throughout the world challenging FP&A to provide more strategic value.
 
In this podcast Anders discusses:
 
How he moved from "pretty poor numbers" as a LinkedIn creator 10 years ago, to be the leading influencer on FP&A
Why more voices on FP&A on LinkedIn and other platforms is propelling change for the profession
Why business partners need to better understand key drivers for their business and translates insights into action
Why change in FP&A is still not happening on the scale that businesses need to see
Analytics vs FP&A? Should they be competing
What is really meant by common buzzwords "business partnering" and digital transformation
Why he feels that in common with other finance professionals he held himself back for too long to avoid breaking out of his comfort zone.

 
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