Xin L. | FP&A Coach

Xin Li

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VP&Hiring Manager | Break Into FP&A & Build a Fast-Track Path to Leadership

6,030 min coached

93 followers

Studied at Stockholm School of Economics

Works at Hubexo

Successful clients at

Available tomorrow at 7:00 AM UTC

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Xin's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $115/hr

Get help with Variance Analysis, AI Fundamentals, and .

Xin also coaches for Management Consulting, Career Coaching, Leadership Coaching, and Business Operations & Strategy. View all.

Xin’s FP&A Qualifications

Experience level: Vice President

Xin has helped clients get into these companies:

I’m a VP of Global Business Control at a global SaaS company with 2,400 employees, leading a 20-person global finance team and reporting directly to the CFO. I’m also a hiring manager for finance and business control roles, which means I know what actually gets candidates noticed, shortlisted, and hired. I specialize in helping candidates break into FP&A, business control, and strategic finance — especially those coming from consulting, strategy, commercial, operations, or other nontraditional backgrounds. My own career path is proof that you don’t need a linear FP&A background to land a senior finance role: I broke into the function without prior traditional FP&A experience and stepped directly into a VP-level leadership position. My background spans corporate finance, SaaS business control, consulting, telecom, pricing analytics, private equity, and M&A. I’ve worked on executive-level decision-making, financial planning, performance management, commercial strategy, operating model transformation, and global stakeholder management. Through my coaching, I help clients craft a credible finance story, sharpen their resume and LinkedIn, prepare for FP&A and business control interviews, and understand what hiring managers, CFOs, and finance leaders actually look for in high-potential candidates.

Xin can help with:

Variance Analysis

AI Fundamentals

Cover Letters

Financial Reporting

Skill Building

Financial Planning & Analysis

AI Automation

Resume Review

AI Financial Modeling

Salary Negotiation

Financial Modeling

Networking Strategy

Promotion Strategy

Interview Prep

Budgeting & Forecasting

LinkedIn Review

Freelancing

Xin also coaches for Management Consulting, Career Coaching, Leadership Coaching, and Business Operations & Strategy. View all.

About Xin

I spent years in strategy and operations across PE, M&A, and large-scale commercial transformations before breaking into McKinsey, earning the highest scores across every interview dimension. My interviewer called me afterward to say performances like mine were rare. That wasn't luck. It was a system built on first-principles thinking, not tricks. Before consulting, I worked at the intersection of commercial strategy and complex technical programs at a Fortune 500 company, giving me a depth of real business judgment that most coaches simply don't have. I hold dual master's degrees in Finance and IT Management from top European and Asian institutions, and I've lived and worked across multiple continents — so wherever you're applying from, I get the context.

Why do I coach?

Most case coaching teaches you tricks. I teach you how to think. Frameworks are easy to memorize, and interviewers can tell when that's all you've done. The candidates who get offers are the ones who think like consultants before they walk in the door: structuring ambiguity on the fly, pressure testing their own logic, and telling a personal story that actually lands. I specialize in two things most coaches underserve: PEI that feels real and case thinking that transfers to any problem you've never seen before. No canned frameworks. No "tips and tricks" that fall apart the moment an interviewer goes off script. Just structured, first principles reasoning that gets you the offer and serves you on the job. I work with candidates who are serious about leveling up, not looking for shortcuts. Whether you're struggling to make your PEI stories compelling, hitting a wall on case math, or blanking when a case goes somewhere unexpected, I'll help you build the muscle, not just the motions. If you want the coach who'll make you genuinely better, not just more rehearsed, let's talk.