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Randip
Singh
Finance Director
WPP Media
Randip Singh is a senior finance leader with extensive experience driving growth, transformation, and financial discipline across global organisations. Currently Finance Director for UK Operations at WPP Media, he oversees financial strategy and performance in a complex, fast-paced media environment. Previously Deputy CFO at YouGov, Randip played a pivotal role in scaling the business through a period of significant expansion, supporting growth from £152M to £335M in revenue and from 1,200 to 3,000 employees globally. He led large parts of the finance function, strengthening planning, controls, and operational efficiency to support this rapid scale. His earlier roles include senior finance leadership positions at NES Global Talent, Centrica, and British Gas, where he built expertise across audit, business partnering, and international operations. Randip is known for combining strategic insight with execution, using data and strong governance to drive performance and support sustainable growth.
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04 November 2026 09:15 - 09:45
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