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How GHD’s FP&A team streamlined their budget process through closer collaboration with the business

Thursday 9th October 2025
12.00pm (AEDT) / 14.00 (NZDT)

CFO LIVE > WEBCAST ELIGIBLE FOR 1 CPD HOUR

How GHD’s FP&A team streamlined their budget process through closer collaboration with the business

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How GHD’s FP&A team streamlined their budget process through closer collaboration with the business

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how GHD’s FP&A team streamlined their budget process through closer collaboration with the business.

Marc Armstrong, CFO at GHD, Ben Heinl, Director of Cubewise will discuss how GHD changed their budget process from a slower, more cumbersome and contentious bottom-up budgeting process to a streamlined, collaborative one by providing the business Budgeting as a Service using IBM Planning Analytics (TM1). By doing so, GHD has saved more than 50% of the time it took to produce the budget, while driving much better collaboration between FP&A and business stakeholders.

Marc will talk about how the “Budgeting as a Service” approach from the FP&A team has helped and why collaboratively making changes to the budget on-the-fly in budget meetings has enabled better shared understanding and buy-in on the budget than before. Joining the discussion is Darksha Nadeswaran, CFO – Consulting at IBM A/NZ to share her insights on budgeting and planning and will explore how modern CFOs are moving beyond traditional budgeting cycles, embracing agile, technology-driven planning that fosters real-time collaboration and sharper, faster decision-making.

Marc Armstrong

Chief Financial Officer
GHD

Ben Heinl

Director and Co-founder
Cubewise

Darksha Nadeswaran

CFO Consulting
IBM A/NZ

James Solomons

Global CFO