Matt Brattin
Founder, TMB Analytics
I spent 20 years in the trenches of corporate finance.
I've run the close. Built the models. Defended the forecast. Sat in the board meeting where the number I presented got questioned and I had to think on my feet. I've been the analyst working until 4am, the director managing a team that was too small for the job, and the CFO carrying glass balls that couldn't touch the ground.
Through all of it, I saw the same pattern everywhere I went:
Brilliant finance professionals buried by the work. Spending 80% of their time on execution in reaction mode and 20% on the thinking that actually moves the business forward. Getting promoted for being indispensable, then getting trapped by it.
I left the corporate track to fix that.
Today I run TMB Analytics where I help finance and analytics professionals build careers as architects: shaping outcomes before they're asked for, building systems that survive the next ten projects, owning the strategic voice that gets them in the room where decisions happen.
What that looks like
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