{"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":"From Rice Paper to AI: FP&A Lessons from 30 Years at the Top of Global Finance - Sébastien Privel","slug":"from-rice-paper-to-ai-fp-a-lessons-from-30-years-at-the-top-of-global-finance-s-bastien-privel","published_at":"2026-04-13T14:54:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-6945461/from-rice-paper-to-ai-fp-a-lessons-from-30-years-at-the-top-of-global-finance-s-bastien-privel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-6945461","url":"https://FPAtoday.podbean.com/e/the-secret-fpa-recipe-how-coca-cola-centralised-80-of-its-fpa-operations/","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3iimvavdxubzzpcd/260322_FPAT_Se_bastien_Privel_22III26_M_SAS_Jimmy_2959.mp3","summary":"What does it actually take to move FP&A activities into a shared service organization at Coca-Cola— and then transform how a global marketing giant manages billions in spend? Sébastien Privel, Senior Director Financial Services FP&A, has done both. Sébastien Privel career spans pharma controllership in late-'90s Beijing to country CFO for France, being involved in the implementation Coca-Cola's global FP&A shared services from scratch, before leading a multi-year marketing finance transformation In this episode Building finance infrastructure from scratch in 1990s China — from rice paper ledgers to SAP, with floppy disks in between. Business partnering and being the finance voice in multi functions projects (including Coca-Cola buying Tropico an iconic French brand) Driving transformation in the FP&A area standardizing processes and moving key activities to a shared service organisation Experimenting with AI including baseline forecasting and the real impact","meta_description":"What does it actually take to move FP&A activities into a shared service organization at Coca-Cola— and then transform how a global marketing giant ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3146,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fp-a-today-6945461/episodes/from-rice-paper-to-ai-fp-a-lessons-from-30-years-at-the-top-of-global-finance-s-bastien-privel/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/from-rice-paper-to-ai-fp-a-lessons-from-30-years-at-the-top-of-global-finance-s-bastien-privel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}