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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. It involves analyzing financial statements and data from different business units.

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The Future of Finance and Sustainability with Elizabeth Burns

CFO Talks

The Future of Finance and Sustainability with Elizabeth Burns The evolving demands of sustainability and financial performance are reshaping the role of CFOs in the energy sector. Elizabeth Burns, CFO of Gas du Cameroon (GDC), exemplifies this balance, demonstrating how strategic financial leadership can support environmental responsibility.

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1,043: Career Redefined: A CFO’s Move from Corporate Promise to Start-up Leadership | Aira Pineda, CFO, Scrubbed

CFO Thought Leader

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. Her leap for personal reasons ultimately led her to a leadership role that she hadn’t anticipated—a twist in her journey that eventually set her on the path to becoming a CFO.

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FP&A’s Scope: What Is In And What Is Out?

Fpanda Club

FP&As role is to connect those insights to financial models and forecasts. FP&As expertise in financial modeling and scenario analysis makes it the ideal function to assess these cases. By projecting costs, revenues, and risks, FP&A can provide a clear picture of the potential financial outcomes.

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Overcoming Cultural Integration Challenges in M&A

E78 Partners

Cultural integration refers to the process of aligning values, behaviors, communication styles, and leadership expectations between merging entities. Cultural misalignment can result in leadership turnover, stalled productivity, and lost momentum. Align Leadership First Start at the top.

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Why PE-Backed Companies Struggle with FP&A—and How to Fix It

E78 Partners

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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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2025

The Finance Weekly

Some 41% of finance teams have issues Identifying and correcting errors, 31% have problems finding and gathering necessary data, 24% have challenging questions on sources of data, 23% face challenges tracking multiple Excel versions, 20% have a bugbear of broken formulas, 19% are far from confident presenting this data to non-finance leadership.