Imagine being in a country where you don’t speak the language and your native tongue or any of the other languages you speak are not understood either. You feel lost and quickly notice that hands and feet can only get you so far in communicating what you want and need.
Both IT and Finance have their own particular language and specific lingo or abbreviations; FP&A, Agile, cash flow, api’s, etc…. As a Finance representative, talking about Finance related issues to the IT management or project managers, it sometimes feels like being lost in translation: