Paul Barnhurst

Paul Barnhurst (a.k.a. "The FP&A Guy") is a finance professional who holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management, MBA in Finance and a Master of Science Degree in Information Management. He has 12+ years of professional experience across several industries, with a strong background in financial planning, financial modeling, report building and business partnering. He has worked for such global companies as American Express, Digicert, and Solera in various finance and FP&A roles.

Paul is known for his deep understanding of the FP&A software planning space and recently published the second version of the FP&A software market guide. Paul has met with more than 100 FP&A software companies and is regularly demoing and researching the latest tools and sharing his knowledge on social media.

In addition to being a big fan of FP&A software, he is also a big advocate of Microsoft Excel, regularly teaching people around the world how to better use Excel on a daily basis. Today, Paul runs his own business, The FP&A Guy, providing training (data visualization, Excel, data storytelling, Best-practice FP&A) and FP&A consulting services. Paul is also a co-founder of the popular Planning and Analytics community The FP&A Hub. Paul also hosts three of the most popular finance podcasts “FP&A Tomorrow”, “Future Finance” and “Financial Modeler’s Corner.