Jan 23 2024
FP&A Vs Finance Business Partners – Tunc Tezel, VP Group FP&A at Ontex
Tunc Tezel has managed FP&A at companies including Ontex, Pladis, British American Tobacco, Procter & Gamble, and Gillette. He has lived and worked in 11 different countries including the UK, Iran, Sub-saharan Africa, Turkey, Latvia, Belgium
Now, Tezel is VP of global FP&A at Ontex, a publicly listed leader in private label manufacturing baby care, feminine care and adult care products for stores including Walmart, Aldi, Lidl,Tesco and Carrefour.
In this episode provides his takeaways from a career at the cutting edge of FP&A:
What do you do with your company’s budget when overnight interest rates hit 3000%. And the Turkish lira was devalued by 60% overnight How FP&A powers private label manufacturing vs working at big brandsHow we coped with the pandemic and the shift to economically challenged consumers trying private labels Moving from brand ambassadors to product ambassadorsHow FP&A is supporting ESGBusiness supporting finance managers – should you call them FP&A Managers orFinance Business Partners (and why it matters)The challenges of data in FP&A work FP&A as co-pilot in a rally carSecrets of bringing the numbers to life Cooking and seafood Why I would have loved to meet Atatürk, founder of the Turkish RepublicThe last thing I asked Google/Chat GPT about my finance work
Episode Notes
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