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996: Cultivating a CFO’s Toolkit | Aaron Levine, CFO, Prophix

CFO Thought Leader

From his early days in auditing at PwC to his current role as CFO at Prophix, Aaron Levine has had a career that has closely tracked the evolving nature of the financial leadership role. It was under Vintz’s mentorship that Levine came to appreciate the power of storytelling within financial leadership.

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The Future of Financial Leadership: Aligning Operational and Strategic CFOs

The Finance Weekly

The CFO role traditionally has two high-level leadership archetypes: strategic and operational. An operational CFO optimizes performance by combining data from various departments with financial data. A strategic CFO focuses on creating long-term plans to achieve the company's goals. What is Operational Finance?

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971: Navigating Growth and Transformation | Sam Kemp, CFO, Built Technologies

CFO Thought Leader

Kemp: Built Technologies is one of the fastest-growing construction and real estate technology companies. What we do is really to service construction lenders and their ability to manage individual loans and portfolios of loans that have to do with financing assets that don’t yet exist—which is a very complex thing.

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A Practical Guide for the New CFO

CFO Talks

The initial period of a new CFO’s tenure is pivotal for setting the groundwork for future success. In this critical time, a CFO must swiftly grasp the unique challenges and opportunities of the organization and start working on the new CFO responsibilities and strategies.

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P&G AMA CFO talks about leadership in finance

Future CFO

Finance & Accounting (F&A) at P&G is pivotal to the sustainable growth of the company and the delivery of leadership levels and shareholder value. As a CFO, I start with the end in mind – what is the problem that we are trying to solve? As a CFO, my first hat is to ensure we have strategic clarity.

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Modern Qualities a CFO Must Have

The Finance Weekly

The traditional definition of a CFO is that he or she is the senior manager of all things financial for a company or corporation. The CFO monitors the company’s cash flow, analyzes its financial health, suggests recommendations for possible improvement, and oversees the company’s financial accounting, including timely and accurate reporting.

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935: Why People Are Finance’s X Factor | Derrek Gafford, CFO, TrueBlue

CFO Thought Leader

Not unlike that of many of his CFO peers, Derrek Gafford’s career path has been shaped in part by geography—specifically, by having its origins in a city that was at once home to a state college, the corporate headquarters of a marquee company, and a Big Four accounting office populated with new college grads.

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