Finance judges project proposals using terms like NPV, hurdle rates, and payback period. Meanwhile, on the plant floor, the people planning and executing them are focused on downtime, throughput, and lead times. Which is why opposing perspectives or critical context can get lost in translation. So, in this session, we’ll provide:

• Insights into where that translation typically breaks down: the assumptions finance bakes in that operations may never see, and the operational realities that don’t make it back into the model

• Five common sources of finance-operations misalignment, from mismatched definitions of value to strategy that means something different to each team

• Why this isn’t a story about two functions at odds, but rather how a little healthy friction, surfaced early, is actually a sign the process is working

• A five-point action plan for closing the gap, from co-created business case templates to shared portfolio visibility and monthly priority check-ins

• A short “public demo” of how Finario’s suite of modern capital planning and portfolio strategy solutions helps keep finance and operations working in lockstep from the same numbers, the same objectives and the same strategies

If your best projects sometimes stall because finance and operations were never quite speaking the same language, this session is for you.