Portraits

Chime's Sofia Fatakhova joins Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo to discuss building a finance function capable of keeping pace with one of the more demanding growth stories in recent memory. She started with a broken forecasting process, ran straight into an IPO, and came out the other side leading a team now deep into figuring out what AI can do for a public company's finance function.Sofia shares what four years of hypergrowth taught her about infrastructure and accuracy, how she got her team from two weeks to two days on the reforecast, and the principle that now shapes every initiative she runs: “good enough” information used quickly often beats “perfect” information used too late. She also reflects on the unlearning that came with all of it, and what she believes finance leadership must look like from here.Read the full companion article here: https://www.pigment.com/customers/portraits-podcast/sofia-fatakhova-chime-building-the-finance-function-to-go-public Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coca-Cola North America's Sara Park joins Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo to talk about building a demand-driven supply chain across one of the most complex distribution networks in the world – starting with Excel, running straight into COVID, and coming out the other side with a planning model built for volatility.Sara shares what the pandemic clarified about the relationship between supply and demand, how she approached coordinating 65 bottling partners with a single platform, and the principle that now shapes every initiative she runs: if you build something people genuinely want, adoption takes care of itself. She also reflects on where AI fits into the future of supply chain planning and what she believes it means for the people doing the work.Read the full companion article here: https://www.pigment.com/customers/portraits-podcast/sara-park-the-coca-cola-company-re-engineering-the-supply-chain-around-its-planners Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Docker's Pooja Agrawal joins Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo to talk about building an AI-first finance function at a company that operates with a startup mentality, even as it scales.Pooja shares why variance commentary was the right first process to automate, what the months of iteration to get there actually looked like, and the principle that now shapes every workflow her team builds: the quality of the output is determined entirely by the quality of the input. She also reflects on where human judgment stays essential, and what she believes the FP&A function will look like in the years ahead.Read the full companion article here: https://www.pigment.com/customers/portraits-podcast/pooja-agrawal-docker-designing-the-financial-engine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.