{"podcast":{"title":"FP&A Today","slug":"fp-a-today-6945461","podcast_index_feed_id":6945461,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/FPAtoday/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":"2026-09-09T00:18:24.843032+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-6945461"},"episode":{"title":"FP&A vs Accountants in an AI era - with Accountant Emily Feinstone","slug":"fp-a-vs-accountants-in-an-ai-era-with-accountant-emily-feinstone","published_at":"2026-03-12T12:54:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-6945461/fp-a-vs-accountants-in-an-ai-era-with-accountant-emily-feinstone","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-6945461","url":"https://FPAtoday.podbean.com/e/fpa-vs-accountants-in-an-ai-era-with-accountant-emily-feinstone/","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5yyuj47apt7yzm5w/260219_FPAT_Emily_Feinstone_05II26_M_SAS_Jimmy_2934.mp3","summary":"Emily Feinstone is an accounting manager at Eventus Advisory Group and unusually tech-forward in how she works. Emily spends her days building better processes, automating repetitive finance workflows, and making high volume operational data usable. And instead of opting for a traditional CPA first route after 20 years of experience, she is pursuing a degree in data science: “ I want to be the one that teaches the AI and not the one that is replaced by AI. I want to be the one that knows how to use it the best to my advantage.” Emily also talks about accounting vs FP&A: You don't even see overhead. It's allocated…but you don't know that it took me two, two and a half hours to prepare that entry and another two hours to key it in.” In this episode: Blurring of lines between data analysts and accountants The future of the accounting profession in an AI era Transforming an Excel based invoice and commission process Keeping raceability and controls + automation Why I wont trust AI to do my accounting journal entries","meta_description":"Emily Feinstone is an accounting manager at Eventus Advisory Group and unusually tech-forward in how she works. Emily spends her days building better proc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3139,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fp-a-today-6945461/episodes/fp-a-vs-accountants-in-an-ai-era-with-accountant-emily-feinstone/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-6945461/fp-a-vs-accountants-in-an-ai-era-with-accountant-emily-feinstone.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}