The modern chief financial officer’s toolkit includes more than just calculators, spreadsheets and paper invoices. In the face of ongoing macro landscape shifts, finance leaders are increasingly being called on to deploy everything they’ve got as they help their organizations strategically navigate business disruptions and...
The past few years have been a period of fundamental change and digital transformation. And as the business landscape continues to shift, executive leadership teams are themselves being transformed as leaders proactively adapt their departmental workflows, responsibilities and goals to meet ongoing macro challenges. “The...
When CFOs can capture new efficiencies while lowering legacy costs, that’s an easy organizational win. Faced with ongoing macro headwinds, and despite a somewhat softening environment, today’s finance teams are increasingly reprioritizing their efforts away from a growth-at-all-costs mindset to a firmer focus on financial...
It is no longer enough for businesses — and their employees — to simply meet expectations. After all, by the time those expectations have been met, they will likely have already been transformed by marketplace and operational realities. “Execution just matters so much,” Marc Greenberg,...
More has changed for chief financial officers (CFOs) over the past five years than in the past 50. “We’ve experienced things that we had not seen for decades, such as a global pandemic, an economic downturn, and constant geopolitical instability,” Vikas Mehta, CFO at Komodo...
The business landscape has transformed more in the past 20 years than the previous 60. And the pace of change over the past handful of years, particularly going into and coming out of the pandemic, has seen that pace accelerate into overdrive. That’s why Angela...
The ability to make tough decisions quickly is often the difference between success and failure. After all, if it were easy to be a leader, everyone would be one. “We had 16 million people pick up a guitar during the pandemic, 30 million worldwide. And...
FinTech giant FIS Global has announced the appointment of James Kehoe as its new chief financial officer (CFO), who began his new role Monday (Aug. 21). Kehoe takes over from Erik Hoag, who ends his 16-year tenure but will remain with the company as a non-executive officer...
Where a firm spends its money tends to be highly correlated to its business strategy. That makes the chief financial officer (CFO) role crucial for sustainable success – and underscores the importance for CFOs of being tapped into the macro climate, ready, able, and willing...