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Survey: Executives Optimistic Despite Financial Disruption, Prioritizing Technology Adoption to Combat Talent Shortage

CFO Leadership

Data analysis and leadership were ranked by CFOs as the most important skills for new team members, outpacing more traditional competencies like accounting and project management. Inflation moved down to the third-ranked impact, tied with the US regulatory environment at 13%.

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Top 10 CFO Priorities for 2024

The Finance Weekly

Despite these challenges, CFOs must collaborate with their management teams to formulate practical solutions. In this article, we highlight the Top 10 Priorities for CFOs in 2024 1. Revamp Finance Operations As the , CFO's responsibilities grow, the finance function's impact also expands.

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Best Practice Tips to Impress in the Role of CFO

Centage

Once upon a time the role of CFO was focused on backward-looking data. Along with tracking cash flow and providing timely information, the best CFOs are strategizers, analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses from a financial perspective and helping direct decision making.

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898: Making Finance Proactively Persuasive | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay

CFO Thought Leader

He told me that he thought that I was already ‘doing the work’ and that I should have a conversation with board—so I did,” explains Lester, who would be named CFO of Keap in early 2020. Asking the right questions is key to effective leadership. Lester: Versapay is the leader in collaborative accounts receivable.

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Survey: Executives Optimistic Despite Financial Disruption, Prioritizing Technology Adoption to Combat Talent Shortage

CFO Leadership

Data analysis and leadership were ranked by CFOs as the most important skills for new team members, outpacing more traditional competencies like accounting and project management. Inflation moved down to the third-ranked impact, tied with the US regulatory environment at 13%.

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887: From Tech to Biotech: Enjoying Today’s Journey | Galit Yaakobovitz, CFO, AmyriAD

CFO Thought Leader

This was a huge leap for me as far as understanding the business through data analysis and other aspects went,” observes Yaakobovitz, who—after 7 years with SanDisk—next sought to slow things down for a year or two as her young family grew by joining an M&A consultancy promising more manageable hours. 48:06] Working with mentors.

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What it takes to be a leader with competence and capabilities

Future CFO

“I think we need to recognise that the CFO role can mean a lot of different things in different businesses. It really depends on the type of business, their strategy and the type of skills they want the CFO to lead on.” Dan Wells, CFO at GrowCFO Charisma. Persuasive. These are qualities we often equate with leaders of the past.

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