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983: The CFO as Architect of Value | Aaron Alt, CFO, Cardinal Health

CFO Thought Leader

In the world of finance, where leadership roles await those who distinguish themselves along a select number of familiar paths, Aaron Alt’s journey to becoming a CFO stands out for its breadth and depth, transcending conventional boundaries. We’re a distributor of pharmaceutical products across the U.S.,

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Essentials to successful finance transformation

Future CFO

Cedric Assaouloff , digital and innovation lead at R&D finance pharmaceutical company F. Assaouloff noted that any transformation starts first with people and aligning a common and shared purpose with the same language and strong leadership. Active change management is necessary," he added. HELP University won the same award.

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People moves: Xinjiang Goldwind, Fabchem China

Future CFO

Wang was the CFO of Beijing Konruns Pharmaceutical Co., Aged 44, Kwek will assume the overall responsibility of the financial, accounting, budgeting, and taxation matters of the group, Fabchem China noted. from December 2005 to November 2016. from 2004 to 2005.

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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2024

The Finance Weekly

When you’re making small-talk with someone who isn’t in finance or accounting about how work is going, and they answer with “busy,” do you ever question how hard it really is? They have a five person accounting team who spend an unwieldy amount of time dumping data from NetSuite into Excel.

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922: The Lessons We Learn | Dev Ahuja, CFO, Novelis

CFO Thought Leader

By his own account, after Ahuja had reached the summit of Novartis’s finance executive ranks in India, the drug giant invited him to occupy an office at its Basel, Switzerland, headquarters. In the pharmaceutical space, I was very proud of what I was doing. We are really recycling aluminum. This has been a wonderful experience.

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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

CFO News Room

Above all, be clear about how the marketing function drives to broader financial outcomes desired by leadership – and speak their language, where possible. Often this comes down to accountability and silos. Perhaps politics and preference have allowed certain pet projects that no longer drive results to persist.

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CFO Pros on the Move: March

The Finance Weekly

Prior to joining Funko, Nave held various executive leadership roles at Walmart.com, where he served as the CFO, COO, and CEO. Prior to that, she served as the CFO of ByHeart, a baby nutrition company, and held several finance leadership roles at Dove, Chobani, and Talenti. Varma began her career in accounting at KPMG.

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