While many other tech companies are dealing with layoffs, staffing challenges are top of mind for Daniel de Haas, CFO of iBASEt. His company makes software that helps manufacturers manage their production operations from procurement to maintenance, with a heavy emphasis on the defense industry....
Global companies are facing macro challenges not seen for decades — war in Europe, inflation and labor challenges. Rumors of recession on the horizon and highly volatile currency fluctuations driven by interest rate hikes are also in the macro mix. That puts a lot of...
The current economic climate affects companies in countless ways. For chief financial officers (CFOs), it casts a new light on things like fundraising, hiring and customer retention. In recent interviews for the PYMNTS series “A Day in the Life of a Digital-First CFO,” finance leaders...
When companies suddenly had to adapt to remote-first work policies early in the pandemic, chief financial officers (CFOs) not only positioned them to weather the storm but also modernized back-office operations by leaps and bounds. Now that pandemic fears have subsided, the pressure is still...
As someone who has been in tech for a long time, Chia Network Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Misha Graboi has gotten accustomed to the cyclical nature of the business. Whenever the technological flavor of the day looks like a world-changer, people tend to overestimate its...
As a longtime chief financial officer (CFO), Kiran Hebbar, CFO at Alloy, said there are two sorts of tools he’s been looking for, and for which he sees great opportunities. First, a tool for consumption-based billing. “I personally believe that there’s a billion-dollar company to...
In order to keep up to date on what’s happening throughout the organization, chief financial officers (CFOs) must keep in touch with their own team, people from other departments and the company’s stakeholders. Collaboration with others is also an important part of identifying processes that...
Not so long ago, investors would tell companies to go full-bore in pursuit of customers and growth. That was especially true if the companies were tech disruptors — investors would tell them to take risks and hire fast. Over the last six months, all that...
Chief financial officers (CFO) positioning their companies to scale to the next level have their optimization work cut out for them. Dennis Schumacher, CFO at Coalfire, said he and his team have been adding automation, considering how the company’s employees work and the real estate...