IPO readiness takes years to build: disciplined planning, trusted data, and strong governance, done long before anyone calls a banker. Most finance teams don't find their gaps until it's too late to close them.

Join Pigment and Deloitte for lessons from companies that got this right, including Figma, Chime, and Once Upon a Farm, and a clear way to benchmark your own team's readiness.

What you'll walk away with

  • Benchmark your finance organization's IPO readiness against current best practices
  • Identify the gaps that most commonly delay IPO readiness, and how to address them early
  • Build resilience through connected planning and scenario based decision making
  • Proven strategies from Deloitte and Pigment's research to prepare your finance team for what's next
  • Lessons from finance leaders who have taken their organizations through the IPO process

The problems we're solving

  • Capital markets are more selective and unpredictable. Discipline and a credible story matter as much as growth.
  • Readiness takes longer than most teams plan for. Governance and controls need 18 to 24 months of lead time.
  • Manual, fragmented data slows forecasting and reporting right when precision matters most.
  • Macro volatility demands faster, more confident decision making.
  • Most teams don't know where their real gaps are. This session helps you benchmark and prioritize them.

Meet the speakers

Jay Peir, Head of Strategy and Interim CFO, Pigment

Jay leads finance, revenue operations, strategy, and pricing at Pigment. Before that, he ran the strategic planning process at a high-growth software company, connecting product strategy, go-to-market, and the financial plan, then guided a $15.7B acquisition of the business and led the integration that followed. Over a 10+ year career spanning FP&A, investor relations, treasury, and accounting, Jay has led two IPOs and raised more than $2B in capital through IPOs, follow-on offerings, convertible debt, and debt financing.

Will Braeutigam, US Capital Markets Transactions and Accounting Advisory Services Leader, Deloitte

Will leads Deloitte's US Capital Markets Transactions practice and its US Accounting Advisory Services practice. His team has advised some of the world's largest companies on accounting and reporting challenges and worked with hundreds of companies through capital markets transactions, helping them meet their goals through changing regulatory conditions. He also leads Deloitte's Audit & Assurance work for mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring.