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...
Automation allows both finance teams and entire organizations to focus on the bigger picture. By handling repetitive chores that had been done manually, automation frees the team to spend more time on analysis, talking with customers and other value-added undertakings. During interviews for the PYMNTS...
While chief financial officers (CFOs) have a lot on their plates when it comes to handling technology and data, one of their top challenges has to do with people — helping their companies retain talent. That’s a chore for companies across industries in the midst...
A majority of companies across all size ranges report that they have benefited from digitizing payments processes. Among the many benefits of digitizing payments processes they report is fraud reduction. In fact, 50% of chief financial officers (CFOs) say digitization benefited that part of their...
Over the last five years, the U.K. has seen Brexit, the pandemic and now the Russia-Ukraine war that is impacting all economies. These have made for strange times for chief financial officers (CFOs) in the banking space, Rajesh Gupta, CFO at OakNorth Bank, told PYMNTS....
“Chief collaborator.” “Resource.” “Service Provider.” Just some of the many ways chief financial officers (CFOs) describe their roles within their organizations. When interviewed for the PYMNTS series “A Day in the Life of a Digital-First CFO,” these finance leaders said today’s CFOs have responsibilities far...
Two decades at a trillion-dollar tech juggernaut provides a ringside seat to just how important liquidity and risk management really is when grappling with seismic, global events. Tahreem Kampton, who held the position of Microsoft treasurer until this month after 10 years in that department,...
Chief financial officers (CFOs) are always looking to refine the processes at their companies, but during times of economic headwinds, they sharpen their pencils just that much more. Those would be metaphorical pencils because manual methods are out and digitization is in as CFOs push...