Steve and Jack discuss how the goal of planning teams and organizations should always be moving beyond the accepted practices or tools to something better. Featuring commentary and FP&A insights from Planning Aces: CFO Bill Zerella of ACV Auctions , CFO Scott Walker of Clarity Software & CFO Michael High of Deep Water Gulf of […]
776: Assessing Risks Beyond the Numbers | Nipun Soni, CFO, BillionToOne
When Nipun Soni tells us that he spent 5 years at Oracle Corp., during which time he helped to perform due diligence on some 40-plus M&A transactions, we can’t resist asking about the “big" deals that grabbed business headlines—such as Oracle’s 2009 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Although Soni no doubt understands our curiosity, he…
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775: Back to the Future | Joan Hilson, CFO, Signet Jewelers Limited
Of all the CFO career routes that our finance leader guests have shared with us, very few have rendered a path as circuitous as the one blazed by Joan Hilson, CFO of Signet Jewelers Limited, the world’s largest specialty jewelry company. When Hilson assumed the CFO role at gem giant Signet in 2019, she was…
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774: How You Tell It Matters | Heather Dixon, CFO, Everside Health
It was a moment of insight that Heather Dixon remembers having not once but twice during the untold number of hours she has spent in examining how divisional numbers were being “rolled up” to be reported. In the process of rolling up certain numbers, Dixon noted that parts of a division’s business would be exhibiting…
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773: Serving an Organization of Proactive Decision-Makers | Darrell Cox, CFO, Vena
For many organizations, capturing real-time data is no longer a goal but now a reality. However, for those firms determined to accumulate these real-time bits and digital details, the old adage about house guests and fish seems to apply: After 3 days, the former begin to smell like the latter. This is an aroma that…
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The Quarterly | Spring 2022
Featuring CFO THOUGHT LEADERs: Tania Secor CFO, R/GA | Pete Mariani CFO, AXOGEN | Jen Herdler CFO, IMPACT HEALTH | Jean Lavigueur CFO, COVEO | Cassandra Hudson CFO, ENGAGESMART | Bill Zerella CFO, ACV AUCTIONS | Michael High CFO, DEEP WATER GULF OF MEXICO, SHELL | Herald Chen CFO, APPLOVIN | Nitesh Sharan, CFO, SOUNDHOUND, INC. | Brian Kinion CFO, MX | Andy Watts CFO, BROWN & BROWN […]