Ken Liu

AMA: Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations, Ken Liu on Finance / Revenue Ops Alignment

September 3 @ 10:00AM PT
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How do you get finance to allocate budget to programs that we haven’t proven out yet, but are experimental?
We recently brought on a CFO and they are asking us to add timelines for ROI to many of the programs that have not yet begun (like influence marketing).
Ken Liu
Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations | Formerly Databricks, Google8mo
Help increase the chances of greenlighting your experimental programs by:Aligning and proposing the programs in line with Finance's planning cadence (e.g. qtrly) as early...
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Ken Liu
Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations | Formerly Databricks, Google8mo
For simplicity sake, I'll assume that your forecasts at the beginning of the qtr are +/-20% from end-of-qtr (EOQ) actuals (since forecasts near the EoQ converge with actu...
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Ken Liu
Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations | Formerly Databricks, Google8mo
To help Finance greenlight financing your SaaS solution requests, present the request in the language of Finance; create a business case that demonstrates the ROI of the ...
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Ken Liu
Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations | Formerly Databricks, Google8mo
Forging a strong relationship with Finance has been instrumental in increasing the impact of my RevOps teams through unlocking budget for projects and feedback on analysi...
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