Episode 92 - FP&A Vs Finance Business Partners – Tunc Tezel, VP Group FP&A at Ontex
Show Notes
Tunc Tezel MBA, CGMA has managed FP&A at companies including Ontex, Pladis, British American Tobacco, Procter & Gamble, and Gillette. He has lived and worked in 11 different countries including the UK, Iran, Sub-saharan Africa, Turkey, Latvia, and Belgium. Now, Tezel is VP of global FP&A at Ontex, a publicly listed leader in private-label manufacturing baby care, feminine care, and adult care products for stores including Walmart, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, and Carrefour.
This episode provides his takeaways from a career at the cutting edge of FP&A:
What do you do with your company’s budget when overnight interest rates hit 3000%. And the Turkish lira was devalued by 60% overnight
How FP&A powers private label manufacturing vs working at big brands
How we coped with the pandemic and the shift to economically challenged consumers trying private labels
Moving from brand ambassadors to product ambassadors
How FP&A is supporting ESG
Business supporting finance managers – should you call them FP&A Managers or
Finance Business Partners (and why it matters)
The challenges of data in FP&A work
FP&A as co-pilot in a rally car
Secrets of bringing the numbers to life Cooking and seafood
Why I would have loved to meet Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic
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