CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 15, 2024

She had excelled quickly, so much so that she was assigned to a leadership role in a major audit project just 2 years into her career. At Scrubbed, she gained broader experience in finance, and, as the company grew exponentially, so did her responsibilities. We can even help to prepare their 10-K’s for the SEC.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Finance and Strategy: Making Numbers Work for Your Vision Imagine this: Your company has a fantastic vision—perhaps it’s to dominate a new market, launch a groundbreaking product, or grow your team and profits. This is where aligning your finance with strategy comes in. So should your financial management.

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E78 Partners

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Overextended FP&A leaders with tactical burdens The Challenge: FP&A leaders often spend excessive time on manual data aggregation and spreadsheet maintenance, limiting their ability to provide strategic financial insights. Establish a dedicated analyst team for tactical financial modeling. Use operational KPIs (e.g.,

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CFO Leadership

APRIL 5, 2023

We’ve gathered a panel of CFOs and business leaders on how they succeed in bringing veterans into their organization and use finance training as the catalyst.) Even military personnel who have finance and budgeting as their job specialty aren’t practicing private sector finance principles and concepts. The contrast is stark.

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CFO Talks

MAY 14, 2025

A CFO’s personal credibility can be the deciding factor in whether the business secures financing or weather a reputational storm. When financial decisions are grounded in integrity, they tend to be more robust, less reactive, and ultimately more sustainable. The ethical bar in finance isnt just whats legal.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 16, 2025

You sit at the intersection of finance, ethics, regulation, and performance. Its about aligning leadership behaviour with company purpose, structuring accountability lines, and creating visibility into how decisions are madeand why. Who signs off on financial models? Model ethical behaviour.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Thobile’s passion for finance sparked in high school with her love for mathematics and the challenge of balancing financial statements. This interest solidified during her BCom studies, where she found satisfaction in analyzing financial statements and market trends. What sparked your interest in finance?

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E78 Partners

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This capability offers a significant advantage in today’s competitive environment, where agility and foresight are vital for maintaining strong financial health. This not only enhances performance outcomes but also supports dynamic forecasting, enabling leaders to adapt their plans as business conditions evolve.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The team helps clients understand each deal’s potential returns and risks by providing accurate valuations and financial models. They also work on structuring transactions to align with clients’ goals, minimizing tax implications, and ensuring efficient financing. The post What Are Transaction Services?

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Datarails, Vena, and Workday, leaders in the large and competitive field of FP&A software, all won multiple awards in the employee salary, benefits, and leadership categories. 6) Best leadership teams. Datarails is also , The Finance Weekly’s #1 FP&A software for 2022. Datarails - Didi Gurfinkel, CEO- came in at #19.

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CFO Talks

MAY 8, 2025

But while some risks are worth taking, others can be a fast track to financial disaster. But lets be honestevaluating investment risks isnt just about spreadsheets and financial models. As a CFO, your experience, intuition, and leadership play a critical role. The difference? But it also means getting your team on board.

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Bramasol

APRIL 15, 2024

In this new post, we get more granular to provide an update on how AI and Gen AI can enhance productivity, insights, and results in finance applications such as order-to-cash to compliance (OTC 2 ), along with a look at how new SAP AI initiatives are key to this transformation. to drive financial models.

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gradually revolutionizing various industries, including the field of accounting and finance. With the emergence of , AI tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and BERT, professionals in these fields can benefit from enhanced capabilities and streamlined processes.

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Future CFO

JUNE 24, 2024

It took me years to be skilled in financial planning and analysis. Not every finance professional can be sharp enough to detect key highlights and provide analysis for the financial statements. How do you dissect complex algorithms as compared to traditional financial models?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, finance-related jobs are predicted to experience an 8% annual growth rate until at least 2030. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , finance-related jobs are predicted to experience an 8% annual growth rate until at least 2030 – in line with other professional sectors.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 3, 2021

The pandemic gave new meaning to financial agility. It became vital as companies pivoted, recalibrated their financial models, and looked to withstand market shocks. For financial leaders, this shift in meaning created challenges. As a result, every company sought financial clarity. Source: FutureCIO-AFP, 2021.

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VCFO

MAY 30, 2022

Jose is a senior finance professional with more than 30 years of experience in financial management roles in manufacturing and international energy ventures. His leadership skills have been honed through years of working strategically with CEOs, executive leadership teams, boards of directors, and building and mentoring diverse teams.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 21, 2024

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? spoke to 20 finance teams for research on this article. spoke to 20 finance teams for research on this article. These processes vary.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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CFO Thought Leader

MAY 20, 2024

Back in 2001, Lafouge stepped into a pivotal finance leadership role with Technip, a technology provider to the energy industry. At Spendesk, he faced the task of restructuring the finance organization to support rapid growth. Our comprehensive spend management platform is very easy to implement for the finance team.

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

In this episode of Planning Episodes hosted by Jack Sweeney and Brett Knowles, three CFOs—Don McGuire of ADP, Scott Blackley of Oscar Health, and Patrick Fleury of TeraWulf—share their insights on financial planning and analysis (FP&A), with a focus on navigating complex business environments.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The job of managing a corporation’s cash flow typically falls to its FP&A team and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Corporate Finance Institute According to the Association of Finance Professionals , many of the skills that make FP&A a strategic partner to the business lead well into the skills that make the CFO a trusted advisor.

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Beacon CFO Plus

JANUARY 30, 2024

Our expertise in financial modeling, due diligence, and strategic planning can streamline the transition process and contribute to its success. Mergers, Acquisitions, or Restructuring An outsourced CFO can play a pivotal role during any period of significant change—such as a merger, acquisition, or internal reorganization.

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Centage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Driver-based modelling allows finance teams to nimbly adjust resource allocations and fine tune financial forecasting around the core drivers of the business. Driver-based budgeting definition Driver-based budgeting/forecasting is a financial planning approach with two major components.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 18, 2019

Their comments highlight a common theme of the need to elevate the technical expertise of finance to the level of strategy. Geetanjali Tandon, Digital & IT Transformation Finance Lead at Bayer Crop Science, Chair of the AFP FP&A Advisory Council. Also, a crystal ball to financially model the impact of the strategic options.

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Future CFO

JUNE 13, 2022

Editor’s note: Finance executives could no longer succeed by focusing simply on numbers. Grace Lim (pictured), CFO at KK Women's & Children's Hospital (KKH) in Singapore shared with FutureCFO audiences how female finance executives could become CFOs. This article is part of FutureCFO's Female Leadership in Finance Series.

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Collectiv

MARCH 5, 2025

Accurate Planning Requires a Single, Integrated Source of Truth Modernized planning is about transforming business processes holisticallyintegrating concepts of financial planning across all departments, whether its HR, supply chain, sales, or operations. However, this finance-centric approach left a lot of blind spots across the enterprise.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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Future CFO

MAY 22, 2024

The role of chief financial officers has long been evolving, especially following the drastic changes brought about by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategic finance management plays a pivotal role in the efficacious integration of digital technology, augmenting operational efficiency and propelling sustained growth,” Waty says.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The CFO role requires certain traits and skills, said Woranat Dumrongsiri (pictured), Country CFO, Deloitte Thailand and Deloitte Laos during an interview with FutureCFO for the publication’s Female Leadership in Finance Series. Future CFO: When did you start to become interested in finance? How would you want that to change?

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 5, 2023

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) involve a range of activities, including planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analytical tasks, all of which are vital in providing essential support for a company's major business decisions and overall financial well-being.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

“Ongoing uncertainty and instability will expose organisations to sudden cost surges in the coming years,” says Randeep Rathindran , distinguished vice president of research in the Gartner Finance practice. The post CFOs to face EBITDA margins challenges, Gartner says appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Jedox Finance

AUGUST 22, 2019

We must then repeat it so that it seeps into the finance culture for current employees and attracts the type of people you want to have. Crystal ball to financially model the impact of the strategic options. This will help you in your role of supporting the CEO and our daily activities with the business.

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Boston Startup CFO

JULY 10, 2016

To hold their own amongst established competitors, startups need strong leadership teams and effective business strategy. TK: The ability to communicate your thinking and decision-making rationale is absolutely critical to success in any finance role. JT: CallFire’s founding team remains active in the company.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

He or she must also review all formal finance, HR and IT related procedures. Angie Lin, co-founder and chief investment officer at Assured Asset Management adds that the CFO has to look beyond the traditional approaches towards managing the finances of the company – be open to new ways of doing things.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 23, 2019

These are often not “out of the box” solutions and will require us to spend time learning new skills in process automation, analytics and financial modeling. Especially clean data or even enriched data which brings financial and non-financial information together can be powerful. Financial Modeling.

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