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Vaughan
Grandin
Head of Financial Modelling
Teneo
Vaughan leads the Teneo financial modelling team and marries extensive financial modelling and restructuring expertise to guide companies and stakeholders through critical situations. Vaughan has more than 15 years experience of corporate advisory, finance, and restructuring experience helping corporates, lenders, and investors, often involving financial distress or significant regulatory and political scrutiny. He specialises in financial modelling and has experience in working capital optimisation and contingency planning. Vaughan is a qualified chartered accountant and came 8th in South Africa in his final Board examinations.
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12 November 2026 09:30 - 10:00
Forecasting the unforeseeable: Transforming macro volatility into a competitive edge
Tariffs shift, rates hold longer than expected, a new technology cycle rewrites the competitive map, and the board still wants a number by Friday. This keynote looks at why traditional annual forecasting cycles are breaking under that kind of pressure, and what's replacing them: rolling forecasts, faster planning cadences, and scenario models built to be rebuilt, not just revisited once a quarter. The session gives finance leaders a practical blueprint for treating volatility as a working assumption rather than an exception, so the business can move with confidence instead of waiting for the picture to clear, drawing on how leading FP&A functions are actually redesigning cash visibility, assumption-tracking, and planning cadence right now. Key takeaways: - Walk through why traditional annual forecasting cycles break under rate, tariff, and technology shocks that don't wait for next quarter's plan - Take home a practical framework for treating volatility as a working assumption in your models, not an exception handled once and forgotten - Get real examples of how FP&A functions are redesigning rolling forecasts, cash visibility, and planning cadence to move as fast as the market does