Month: October 2026

I started my career as a consultant. Like many consultants, I was trained to think in terms of requirements, business processes, system design, configuration, testing and delivery. We worked closely with Finance teams, listened to what they needed, translated their requirements into systems, and then moved on to the next project. I thought I understood Finance. Then I left consulting and joined a Finance office. That was when I realised that understanding Finance from the outside and actually living Finance are two very different things. And years later, when I returned to consulting, I found myself looking at EPM solutions through completely different eyes. There were three shocks during my time in Finance that fundamentally changed the way I think about consulting. Shock #1: A number is never just a number One of my earliest lessons came from my Finance Director. We were reviewing a set of numbers, and something simply did not look right. We went through the figures, challenged the assumptions and tried to understand whether the...