CFOTL: When it comes to the Corona virus, what steps are you taking to prepare and manage your business going forward? Nestor: We so happen to have a fair amount of our product sourced out of China. So we’ve been thinking about this for quite some time. The impact of it, basically since the country […]
578: The Awesome Power of FP&A | Jason Child, CFO, Splunk
Less than a year after his arrival at Splunk—a fast-growing, San Francisco–based software developer—CFO Jason Child appears to have been fully repatriated to his native land. To be clear: The “land” to which we refer is not the code-crunching zone of software development but the turf of business growth and scale—a locale in which Child…
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Boomi CFO Says That Sales Productivity Often Suffers A Death Of A Thousand Tweaks
This article was originally published on Forbes.com For those finance chiefs who are apt to tweak their company’s sales compensation plan, Boomi CFO Carolyn Koehn has some curt advice: Stop. Or at least make your tweaks sparingly. “If you want to lose sales and have the sales team off doing exercises in game theory or whatever, […]
How Free Shipping Greased Amazon’s Flywheel
This article was originally published on Forbes.com A Finance Leader Looks Back at a Game-Changing Decision Inside the conference rooms of 21st-century businesses, few strategy debates have led to a decision as impactful as the one Amazon.com made in 2001. In the wake of the dot-com crash, members of Amazon’s fledgling financial planning and analysis, or FP&A, […]
When His Leadership Moment Arrived, Synchrony’s Future CFO Was Ready
This article was originally published on Forbes.com Before entering Synchrony’s CFO office, Brian Wenzel’s finance career had to maneuver through a downturn and a massive GE restructuring. It was roughly 10 years ago when Brian Wenzel realized that his coveted and time-tested career path inside GE Capital had become somewhat fogged over. He was not alone. […]
AFTERPOD: Putting a Fine Point on FP&A | An Interview with Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful
(A shortened version of this interview was originally released on CFOTL Episode #564. The following transcript is an edited version of the extended Interview.) CFOTL: We’re happy to catch up with our guest Grant Halloran this week. Grant is a course CEO of Host Analytics, which this week is rebranding as Planful. Now when a […]
555: Two Worlds, One Career | Mike Kaseta, CFO, Aerami Therapeutics
Few megadeals within the past decade have received as many recurring kudos as the acquisition of Genzyme, of Cambridge, MA by France’s biggest pharmaceutical company, Sanofi. The marriage of Sanofi and Genzyme appears to have exceeded expectations, allowing all of those involved in minting the newly merged entity to rightfully keep a feather in their…
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No Longer Serving the Metric-Savvy Few, FP&A Enters a New Data Dimension to Feed the Masses
At Digital Realty, the FP&A team wants to help its business leaders “complete the story” by supplying data that brings greater context to decision-making. We spoke with Glenn Snyder, Vice President, Corporate FP&A, at Digital Realty about the company’s push to help business leaders tell the whole story. (This interview was originally released on Episode […]
Finding Efficiencies in Cost Containment | Pavan Makhija, CFO, Possible Health
Monitoring Your Labor Targets | Celine Okoh, CFO, The White Ribbon Alliance
Why Talent Must be Top of Mind for Finance – Paul Burrin, VP, Sage People
This discussion was released on Episode 546 of the CFO Thought Leader Podcast CFOTL: It seems to us that many finance leaders are not as focused on workforce challenges as they are perhaps with measuring customer retention and other customer-related areas. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind sharing some thoughts on my observation? Burrin: […]