HOW I

TRANSITIONED
FROM

AUDIT
TO
FP&A
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 What I am sharing:
1) The skills I developed from my audit
experience and used as strength to change to
controlling

2) What I had to learned to transition to

controlling

3) The different fields of controlling

4) How I continue to grow

Nicolas Boucher - nicolasboucher.online

 Intro
6 years ago I made 4 changes in my
professional and personal life:

- I changed country (moved from Luxemburg

to Germany).
- I changed language (French to German).
- I changed industry (Financial Services to
aerospace, transport and defence).
- I changed job (audit to controlling).

Nicolas Boucher - nicolasboucher.online

 1 - Transferrable skills

- An auditor has a strong accounting

knowledge which is the base for all finance
jobs.
- Working for audit and consulting companies
teaches you to be structured, efficient and
goal oriented.
- Being in an audit team and working under
pressure is a good accelerator for improving
his communication skills at work.
- Jumping from one assignment to another
and having to gain trust and knowledge from
your client will help you be quickly
operational in any new job.
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2 - What you need to learn

- Deeper understanding of profitability, price

sensitivity, cost accounting
- Learn the key KPIs
- Get the most out of the ERP and reporting
tools to deliver efficient & valuable
reporting/analysis
- Budgeting, forecasting, modeling
- How to improve processes to be more
efficient as a finance function

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 3 - The different roles

Once you dive into the controlling/FP&A

world, you discover that depending on the
company and the industry there are many
roles to learn:

Commercial controlling, project controlling,

cost controlling, industrial controlling,
financial planning & analysis, reporting...

You can continue developing yourself by

changing roles and tracing your own career
path.

Nicolas Boucher - nicolasboucher.online

4 - How I continue to grow

The last 5 years I already experienced

different roles and each time I get to learn
more about controlling and how I can bring
more value to my organisation.

I also recommend exchanging best practices

with your colleagues but also with people in
your professional network like here on
LinkedIn.

Nicolas Boucher - nicolasboucher.online

 Share your own
experience in the
comments.

Nicolas Boucher - nicolasboucher.online