{"podcast":{"title":"FP&A Today","slug":"fp-a-today-5699991","podcast_index_feed_id":5699991,"rss_url":"https://fpatoday.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.datarails.com/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13839472/FPA_Today_3000_compressed8z1fa.jpg","author":"Sarah Schlott","episode_count":100,"summary":"FP&A Today is the podcast for Financial Planning and Analysis. The weekly show dives into the challenges and opportunities within the world of FP&A, interviewing FP&A leaders, CFOs and other finance pros in order to give you the freshest insights and takeaways. Each week our top guests provide actionable advice about financial planning and analysis – from career goals to navigating challenges, and powerful Excel tips. Our weekly show provides unrivalled insights for navigating FP&A. FP&A Today is brought to you by Datarails. Datarails is the financial planning and analysis platform that automates data consolidation, reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue using their own Excel spreadsheets and financial models. Get in touch at www.datarails.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T00:18:20.924605+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991"},"episode":{"title":"From Flight Deck to Finance: Bobby Bray on Military Precision in Analytics and FP&A","slug":"from-flight-deck-to-finance-bobby-bray-on-military-precision-in-analytics-and-fp-a","published_at":"2025-12-31T11:41:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991/from-flight-deck-to-finance-bobby-bray-on-military-precision-in-analytics-and-fp-a","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991","url":"https://FPAtoday.podbean.com/e/from-flight-deck-to-finance-bobby-bray-on-military-precision-in-analytics-and-fpa/","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/p8azhka3uii34m2f/251013_FPAT_Bobby_Bray_13X25_M_SAS_Jimmy_7536.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"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 Cap…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3187,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fp-a-today-5699991/episodes/from-flight-deck-to-finance-bobby-bray-on-military-precision-in-analytics-and-fp-a/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991/from-flight-deck-to-finance-bobby-bray-on-military-precision-in-analytics-and-fp-a.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}