Bruno J. Navarro
Bruno J. Navarro is a senior content marketing manager at Workday, and focuses on writing about finance, technology, and trends.
Bruno has more than 25 years of experience in content marketing and strategy, leadership, and journalism. Prior to joining Workday, Bruno served as director of editorial and content at a New York-based B2B startup and worked as editor, producer, and reporter at a variety of news organizations, including CNBC, The Associated Press, NBC News, and Condé Nast.
Understanding how to determine the true value of agentic AI and AI teams will provide organizations the competitive advantage to make the most of its investments in technology—and power growth well into the future.
Excel’s flexibility and powerful calculation engine make it a natural choice for building and refining financial forecasts alongside core FP&A platforms. Its familiar interface, shared workbook capabilities, and built-in audit trails boost usability, drive collaboration, and ensure the team works from a single, reliable source of truth.
Finance leaders must understand these key aspects of AI—from foundational capabilities and strategic value to data, risk, and talent—to drive growth and competitive advantage in an AI-driven world.
Overhead costs influence more than just the bottom line—they reveal how well your business runs. With the right structure and insights, finance teams can turn these expenses into a source of control, clarity, and smarter decisions.
Retained earnings reflect the share of net profits a company retains to fuel growth and sustain operations. Mastering their calculation and forecasting empowers finance teams to harness internal capital to its fullest potential.
Finance leaders must adapt to the age of agentic AI by mitigating new risks with strategic frameworks that prioritize security, transparency, and ethical practices
Expected value distills uncertainty into one probability-weighted number. Explore the formula, see profit-focused examples, and learn how AI platforms keep those forecasts live.
Bad debt can quietly erode profits, distort forecasts, and shake financial confidence—unless you know how to stay ahead of it. To succeed, finance teams must know how to regularly calculate bad debt expense.
To create robust, sustainable growth, organizations must strategically align their finance and IT departments, moving beyond traditional silos to enable better insights.
Forecasting average revenue helps finance leaders understand how value flows through the business. With the right data and tools in place, it becomes a powerful way to spot trends, guide strategy, and drive long-term planning decisions.
Finance teams are under pressure to plan faster, more often, and with input from every corner of the business. Holistic financial planning and integrated FP&A make that possible by connecting people, data, and decisions in real time.
Strong accounts payable forecasts give finance leaders early visibility into upcoming cash requirements and payment timing. With the right approach, AP serves as a practical tool for managing liquidity and strengthening operational control.
Excel built the foundation of FP&A, but it wasn't designed for the speed or scale modern finance demands. Learn why today’s finance leaders are adopting a more connected planning approach that moves with the entire business.
More than ever, finance leaders must possess a broader skill set, including the ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and provide insights that inform critical business decisions and create value.
Financial consolidation and close is more than a reporting cycle—it’s a test of how connected, agile, and future-ready finance really is. Modernizing the process is the key to moving faster with confidence.
Financial planning and analysis has become more than a reporting function. Learn how today’s FP&A teams play a role in shaping strategy, guiding decisions, and helping companies stay agile in changing environments.
Finance teams today face more pressure than ever to deliver speed, accuracy, and insight. Digital transformation in finance is how leading organizations are closing the gap between rising expectations and outdated processes.
Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks about the importance of agility, technology, and self-care in a finance organization poised to thrive into the future.
Finance leaders must think about how their organizations should respond in the face of future uncertainty, both in the short-term and beyond.
Enterprise growth raises the stakes for how expenses are tracked, managed, and optimized. These tactics offer a clear path for finance leaders to stay in control while enabling their organizations to scale with agility and speed.