# From Flight Deck to Finance: Bobby Bray on Military Precision in Analytics and FP&A

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Podcast: [FP&A Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991)
Published: 2025-12-31T11:41:48+00:00
Episode link: https://FPAtoday.podbean.com/e/from-flight-deck-to-finance-bobby-bray-on-military-precision-in-analytics-and-fpa/
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## Resource

Bobby Bray brings his perspective from more than 20 years in banking and consulting with Capital One, Oliver Wyman, and Regions Bank. The retired Navy Captain with four commands talks about strategic decision-making under pressure, working with Fortune 150 C-Suite executives, and the rigor required in FP&A. He says: “To use an aviation term you need to be able to follow the drop of gas through the engine and understand the different cogs in the engine that turns a drop of gas into thrust, but it also is what turns raw data into usable analytics on the back end.”In this episode A Truly Non-Traditional Path to Finance Commercial banking as the most educational finance job Discipline and rigor in FP&A Cloud infrastructure changes in the past 7 years The rigor of a capital market stress test Explainability of AI in finance

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