Griffon | Financial Planning & Analysis Specialists

	Strategic FP&A Financial Planning and Analysis is the function which sharpens the cutting edge of your business strategy — by helping to guide your overall strategic direction and by helping to assess the impact of alternative strategic options: Over the medium term, financial planners keep your 3-year strategic plan in sync with the current performance of your business, and the emerging trends in your operating environment. On a day-to-day basis, analysts gather and interpret key information, which they share with other business functions to empower their decision-making, and to test the likely impact of their actions under a range of scenarios. Across the business, your FP&A team collaborates to drive improvement and to manage the financial future of the organisation. Your FP&A team reaches across your organisation, and in their hands strategic planning remains a continuous process and not an annual procedure.

	A Particular Skill Set In addition to their heightened numeracy and communication skills, this team needs a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise to interact effectively across the organisation. This dialogue across functions is more meaningful when they can share a vocabulary and a frame of reference. At Griffon we recommend the Anaplan platform, which can capture the multi-dimensionality of your business while providing a ‘single version of the truth’. Information Architecture Selecting the right information architecture for you is not only a key strategic driver of your business performance, it’s the first step in your digital transformation. We expand on this idea in our section on Agile Systems. We have chosen to build our FP&A solutions on the Anaplan technology platform, which combines agility, with a simple, intuitive interface and unrivalled planning and modelling power.