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How digital business partnering and AI power transformative FP&A

Discover how leading Finance teams are unlocking smarter, faster decisions

  • See how Finance teams are shifting from reporting to proactive business partnering
  • Learn practical methods to strengthen business acumen and drive collaboration
  • Find out how digital business twins enable agile forecasting and scenario planning
  • Discover where AI and automation create faster, more strategic insights

Learn how to navigate complexity and lead with confidence

Today’s Finance leaders are navigating constant change—from inflation and supply chain disruptions to rapid advancements in AI and automation. Traditional Finance processes are often too slow, too manual, and too limited to keep pace.

This eBook explores how digital business partnering empowers Finance teams to become true strategic partners within their organizations. Through technologies like AI (ML, GenAI, and Agentic AI), digital business twins, and hyperautomation, FP&A teams can break down silos, enhance collaboration, and enable real-time decision-making.

Featuring expert insights from Christian Wattig, FP&A thought leader and educator, and Tim Caudill, Solution Consultant at Jedox, this resource shares actionable strategies for building stronger partnerships, improving forecasting agility, and freeing up time for higher-value analysis.

Whether your team is just starting its transformation or looking to advance existing capabilities, this eBook offers practical insights to help Finance teams thrive—no matter what the future holds.

Contributors 

Christian Wattig

Christian Wattig

Christian Wattig is an FP&A expert with over a decade of leadership experience at multinational companies and fast-growing tech start-ups. Today, Christian directs the FP&A certificate program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and shares his insights through his own training programs as the founder of Inside FP&A. Over 30,000 finance professionals and business leaders subscribe to his weekly newsletter, FP&A Tuesday and more than 100,000 follow him on LinkedIn. You can discover more about his work at InsideFPA.com.

jdx in action speaker tim caudill

Tim Caudill

Tim Caudill has over two decades of domain expertise mostly focusing on financial software implementation as well as leading corporate finance teams. As RVP of Solution Advisory at Jedox, Inc., Tim is responsible for sharing how Jedox enables organizations to achieve digital transformation. By using information gathered over myriad implementations in almost every industry, Tim brings a unique view about what is practical, important, and achievable.

Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • The evolution of Finance business partnering
  • Building true business acumen in Finance
  • Digital business partnering in practice
  • Driver-based planning: A smarter approach
  • What a digital business twin looks like in real life
  • Amplifying impact with AI
  • Skills for the new FP&A professional
  • Getting started: Your first steps
  • Conclusion: A better future for Finance