Soufyan Hamid - How to Present like Netflix & Make Finance Addictive | Ep.011

Episode - 011: Where we learn from Soufyan Hamid - FP&A Freelancer and the Finance Presentation Skills master – Choosing what to contact to communicate and how, how you can present like Netflix, how to use teaser & cliffhangers, how to use the PowerPoint rehearsal tool, why doing things manually might help your creativity, the cool apps Souf uses in his day to day, and much much more.

'Souf' started his career at PwC, spent almost 5 years as a manager at Deloitte and 7 years at Proximus as a Finance Business Partner and manager of Strategic projects. Souf is now an FP&A freelancer, but also trains finance teams on how to improve their presentation skills. When he's not doing that, he's spending time with his daughter of 8 and son of 5, attending concerts and playing football (in his words badly), and he also likes cooking and drawing DragonBall Z characters!

Show Notes

Where to find Souf

Find him on LinkedIn here 

Find him on his website here 

Some Examples of Souf’s Posts

-       20 Must Have PowerPoint Skills for FP&A 

-       5 Tips to Start Giving Presentations 

-       You have only 1 rule Limilt Everything 

-       Use the Boomerang technique to avoid tricky questions

-       4 Ways to Use Your Hands when Presenting 

Building Blocks of a Great Presentation

Building Block 1 – Analysis – Focusing on what’s important and actionable

Building Block 2 – Big Message – What do you want people to remember?

Building Block 3 – Teasers – Keep people wanting more throughout.

Building  Block 4 – Rehearse – For important meetings, make sure you practise!

Building  Block 5 – Deliver – Think about how to look, engage and pace yourself.

Tech Mentioned

PowerBI

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint Rehearsal Tool

Microsoft Office

Google Slides

Notion 

Canva

AirTable

Zapier

ChatGPT 

Contents

[00:04:20] Why Presentation Skills? 

[00:08:07] Building Confidence, and Choosing What to Present 

[00:11:05] What Content Requires What Communication? 

[00:12:29] Use Cases for Excel vs PowerBI 

[00:18:20] How to Present Like Netflix & Make Finance Addictive 

[00:20:57] Using Teasers & Cliffhangers 

[00:23:05] What are the Building Blocks of an Engaging Presentation? 

[00:27:35] How to use the PowerPoint Rehearsal Tool 

[00:32:56] PowerPoint vs Google Slides 

[00:35:55] Don’t Get Carried Away with Animations 

[00:40:38] Automating Content Creation vs Manual Creativity 

[00:48:37] How to use Notion 

[00:52:13] Other Apps 

[00:53:19] The App Souf Couldn’t Live Without 

[00:54:07] Find Out More About Souf 

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