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From 38 discovery queries across the 10 niche keywords we shortlisted 18 creators and scored 16 with enough recent posting history. Everything shown is from the last 6 months. The point of this page: the templates worth modeling, and the verified finance decision-makers already engaging with this content.
01 · Creators worth modeling
Scored on Topic (posts about spend, close, AP, procurement, finance ops), Audience (finance decision-makers in the comments), Reach (25k+ followers) and Engagement (average reactions plus comments per post over the last 6 months, and that average as a share of followers, shown as Rate). Each creator serves three uses: a template source for Ramp's own content, a watch list for the niche, and, where they are not a competitor's employee, a potential paid-partnership voice.
| Creator | What they post | Followers | Avg eng. | Rate | T A R E | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance and CFO voices: spend, close and FP&A content | ||||||
| Nicolas Boucher ↗ | AI for finance teams: comment-gated close kits, CFO toolkits, masterclass funnels | 1.29M | 167 | 0.01% | TARE | HIGH |
| Oana Labes ↗ | Cash flow vs EBITDA and real-time finance education for CEOs and CFOs | 422k | 613 | 0.15% | TARE | HIGH |
| Anders Liu-Lindberg ↗ | FP&A to strategic finance, CFO first-100-days playbooks, finance team effectiveness | 457k | 205 | 0.04% | TARE | HIGH |
| Josh Aharonoff ↗ | Accounting career stories, cash-flow dashboards and month-end close visuals | 485k | 75 | 0.02% | TARE | HIGH |
| Christian Martinez ↗ | AI in finance tutorials: Copilot in Excel, Claude for FP&A, hands-on demos | 71k | 174 | 0.24% | TARE | HIGH |
| Christian Wattig ↗ | FP&A training: career lessons, Excel modeling risks, forecasting practice | 123k | 62 | 0.05% | TARE | HIGH |
| Paul Barnhurst ↗ | FP&A podcasts and Excel/Copilot tips; hosts three finance shows | 117k | 52 | 0.04% | TARE | HIGH |
| Wassia Kamon ↗ | The realities of the mid-market CFO seat: first 90 days, controller-to-CFO transitions | 31k | 86 | 0.28% | TARE | HIGH |
| AP and procurement voices | ||||||
| Tom Mills ↗ | Procurement strategy told as stories: the CEO-runs-procurement diary, negotiation lessons | 141k | 441 | 0.31% | TARE | HIGH |
| Ravindra Singh ↗ | AP and P2P process explainers: invoice processing steps, three-way match, SAP workflows | 12k | 213 | 1.79% | TARE | HIGH |
| Bobbi Bachynski ↗ | Procurement negotiation humor and renewal tactics; leads procurement at Mercury, so a model rather than a partner | 2.9k | 69 | 2.39% | TARE | HIGH |
02 · Standout posts to model
The metric on every post: reactions, comments, and the multiple of that author's own average engagement per post over the last 6 months. A post that clearly beats its author's baseline is content that resonates beyond the usual audience, which makes it a replicable template. Only mimickable thought-leadership qualifies here: announcements, milestones and event promos were dropped. Everything shown was posted after 2026-01-28.
03 · More creators to watch
Scored in the same run but a weaker fit for direct modeling right now: reach, topic share or independence held them back. Worth watching as the content plan ramps.
04 · Creators competitors amplify
We counted person-headshot advertiser logos across all 382 kept competitor ads: exactly one Thought Leader Ad exists in the set. Competitor TLA authors are creator research: the person a competitor spends money to amplify is a voice worth studying, though as a competitor employee they are a model, not a partner.
The category's only Thought Leader Ad: BILL promotes his article 'I'm stepping into the role of CTO at BILL. Here's what I'm most excited about!' from his personal profile. A leadership-transition story used as an ad, aimed at the accountant-firm audience BILL sells to. Study the move; the mockup is on the competitors page.
11 of Brex's 100 kept ads are co-branded videos that run from The Wall Street Journal and Forbes pages but are paid for by Brex: WSJ Bold Names podcast episodes with McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown (whom Brex sponsors in F1) and Forbes founder-CEO clips. Third-party voices without a LinkedIn creator.
One Navan video features its president Michael Sindicich on the Rich Habits Podcast, yet it runs from the company page, not his profile. The person-fronted format is being tried in this category without anyone committing to real Thought Leader Ads.
05 · ICP-fit prospects engaging with this content
We classified 410 comments across the standout creators' recent posts: 138 carried finance decision-maker titles, and after a strict hand review (current role verified, end-user company rather than a finance-software vendor or consultancy, decision-maker seniority) 40 ICP-fit prospects remained. Each row keeps its evidence: the comment and the post it was left on. Two uses: outbound, and a seed audience for the ad targeting.
| ICP-fit prospect | Job title | Company | The comment they left | Post they commented on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayank Srivastava ↗ | CFO / VP Finance, enterprise transformation | Starbucks | "The tech debt concern feels right, but what worries me more is the accountability gap when something breaks and nobody in the room actually understands what the tool is doing" | View ↗ |
| Saul Mateos ↗ | CFO | Gain | "The 'build it ourselves' conversation is missing one cost: ownership. Building the tool may be cheap, but maintaining it, validating the outputs, and fixing it when something breaks during close" | View ↗ |
| Sibaranjan Patnaik ↗ | Director of Finance | TriNet | "The traceability point is the real cost, not the build time. Auditability isn't optional in finance, and that's what vendors have already solved." | View ↗ |
| Shane Branigan ↗ | CFO | Biortica Agrimed | "I've never been a huge fan of ebitda, and especially adjusted ebitda. The purpose of accounting standards is to create a level playing field for comparisons of companies" | View ↗ |
| Carl Rushbridge ↗ | CFO | Data Airflow | "Time savings that walk out the door with a person aren't a productivity gain, they're a dependency." | View ↗ |
| Nidhin Thomas ↗ | Head of Finance and Portfolio Analytics | JLL | "Ownership matters because of what the owner learns by cycle four. By then they know which 3 outputs need a hard sanity-check and which 30 are reliable." | View ↗ |
| Ashwani Baweja ↗ | Global CFO | Export Trading Group | "Simplifying planning workflows often delivers bigger results than adding more reporting layers." | View ↗ |
| Steve Retallick ↗ | Senior FP&A Director | Viasat | "Culture also plays into it. I have experienced finance teams who planned on the system utilising great tech the way it should be used" | View ↗ |
| Marco Aurelio de Godoi Martins ↗ | Controller | IFCO SYSTEMS | "Moving from spreadsheet-driven planning to shared, transparent models not only improves accuracy but also gives finance teams more time to focus on analysis" | View ↗ |
| Sofiya Poland ↗ | Strategic Procurement Director | ALEC | "Love this! The shift from buying to value added procurement may have happened within Procurement, but not so much with others, unfortunately" | View ↗ |
| Matt Foncette ↗ | CFO (Wigs For Heroes) / EMEA Purchasing & Supply Chain Manager | Zones (UK) | "A huge amount of truth in a fictional post :)" | View ↗ |
| Matthew Wigginton ↗ | Head of Procurement and Contract Management | West Sussex County Council | "And also, go negotiate our salesforce contract (anyone).. ah! The response was USA says no." | View ↗ |