Finance Business Partnering, part 1: lessons from Ontex, P&G, and Gillette

About this episode

The episode features Tunc Tezel discussing lessons in finance business partnering from his extensive experience with major companies.

Today on the show, we're launching a special series on finance business partnering - exploring different facets of modern finance business partnering. Today’s special guest is Tunc Tezel VP group FP&A, Ontax, bringing 30-years of lessons from Ontex, Pladis, British American Tobacco, Procter & Gamble, and Gillette - business partnering with marketing, sales, and operations to reach common goals and bringing some of the most popular CPG products to market. From “spy” to “strategist” in business partnering Secrets to storytelling Embedded vs. centralised FP&A business partnering Working capital as a partnering tool Breaking bad news in business partnering When business partnering breaks down

People in this episode

Host: Glenn Hopper

Guest: Tunc Tezel

Topics covered

• finance business partnering
• business strategy
• working capital
• storytelling in finance
• collaboration in business

Keywords

• finance business partnering
• Ontex
• Procter & Gamble
• Gillette
• working capital
• business strategy
• storytelling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ontex, Pladis, British American Tobacco, Procter & Gamble, Gillette

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