Episode 120
20 years of top FP&A (from Amazon to Siemens and everything in between)
July 30, 202446m 13s
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Show Notes
Maria del Dado Alonso Sanchez, a recognized and respected Board Member and Chief Financial Officer for large & mid-cap companies has been a finance leader in sectors including e-commerce, technology, gaming ad tech, and online hospitality. She says: “Each sector really presented its unique financial challenges and strategies.”
Learn invaluable lessons about FP&A from Maria who has served more than 20 years at blue chip companies:
- How I grew as a finance professional at Amazon and the launch of Amazon Prime and Amazon Europe was created
- Acquiring of Booking.com by Priceline
- Azerion growth from 200m Euros to 500m Euros in only two years to IPO and Belin’s Brand Group ended up with a leveraged buyout
- From law to finance and my finance career
- Core KPIs and metrics across diverse businesses
- Getting the “finance footprint” from a CEO before I join
- Flexibility and adaptability in fast-growth companies
- Customer obsession at Amazon vs the 80/20 principle at Booking.com
- My approach to financial modeling
- Levering analysts with historical data at C&A
- Implementing BI tools and justifying the investment
- Why AI in finance is a phenomenal opportunity and my role as Board Member for Women in AI Netherlands
- Kickboxing and karaoke
Connect with Maria del Dado Alonso Sanchez on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariadeldadoalonsosanchez/