{"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":"Lessons from a finance revolution at Mars, with Colin Moss","slug":"lessons-from-a-finance-revolution-at-mars-with-colin-moss","published_at":"2026-07-26T11:11:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991/lessons-from-a-finance-revolution-at-mars-with-colin-moss","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-5699991","url":"https://FPAtoday.podbean.com/e/lessons-from-a-finance-revolution-at-mars-with-colin-moss/","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vaaumg5inc3bxq3s/260616_FPAT_Colin_Moss_16VI26_Colin_Mr1_SAS_Jimmy_2187.mp3","summary":"Colin Moss worked for more than 10 years at Mars, which produces some of the world's best-loved brands including Royal Canin, M&M’s and Snickers. In this role, he partnered with the global Finance leadership team to design to stand up the new FinTech function, strengthening the connection between Finance and IT and leading a portfolio of 40+ initiatives, establishing resource and financial management disciplines (before that he was at famed confectionary maker Cadbury). In 2025 he took the leap to set up his own business, CM Strategies working with organisations navigating growth and complexity, helping them redesign how the finance department partners with the business and builds capability . His message about the function of FP&A is resonant and powerful:“One of the ways that I've seen it described is that your business, and leadership team is, is the “head”, and FP&A is the “neck” because FP&A is showing that team where to look. In this context, FP&A is helping what's the context we're operating in? What's the strategy that we're executing against? And what does that mean for where we focus? What do we put our attention on? And that can be showing up in what KPIs we look at, but also what processes we need to improve.?” In this episode Path to creation of my own business (in a “hard to leave” business) Early audit roles as the foundation of my career My early lessons about business partnership at Cadbury and Mars Lessons from global finance transformation at Mars including KPI design and management reporting Power of judgement in FP&A Find out more about CM Strategies at www.cmstrategies.co.uk","meta_description":"Colin Moss worked for more than 10 years at Mars, which produces some of the world's best-loved brands including Royal Canin, M&M’s and Snickers. In t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2758,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fp-a-today-5699991/episodes/lessons-from-a-finance-revolution-at-mars-with-colin-moss/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/lessons-from-a-finance-revolution-at-mars-with-colin-moss.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}