The Future of Finance is Listening

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721: Every Transformation Begins with Listening | Melissa Ballenger, CFO, Mosaic

"It's all about integrity—always." –Melissa Ballenger, CFO, Mosaic When Melissa Ballenger stepped into a deputy CFO role for TD Bank’s U.S. subsidiary back in 2011, she did so knowing that she had been recruited to be a change agent. Having recently generated business headlines from acquiring two sizable banks in the U.S., TD Bank had…
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720: Build a Function That Drives | Beth Clymer, CFO, Jobcase, Inc.

"Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you and work hard to help them to grow and shine." – Beth Clymer, CFO, Jobcase, Inc. It was one of the last pieces of advice that CFO Beth Clymer left us with—an item that we snagged with one of our favorite questions: What advice do you…
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719: Achieving New Finance IT Synergies | Madhu Ranganathan, CFO, OpenText

“The aspiration to become a CFO was always there,” says Madhu Ranganathan, executive vice president and chief financial officer of OpenText, a leader in information management based in Waterloo, Ontario. “I just didn't know what the journey would look like." Along the way, Ranganathan says, she learned that while technical acumen remains critical to a successful career, collaboration…
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718: An Appetite for Impact | Sean Mulloy, CFO, Level Ex, Inc.

"Whenever you face setbacks and failures, view these as what they are—an opportunity to learn and grow. While talent and skill are certainly important, the most important skill is resiliency." –CFO Sean Mulloy When asked when he knew that he wanted to become a chief financial officer, Sean Mulloy tells us that he knew from…
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Ep 1: A Cut Above FP&A | Planning Aces

This Episode Features FP&A Insights & Commentary from: Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media Harmit Singh, CFO, Levi Strauss & Co. Andrew Kenny, CFO, Scoular Unedited Transcript This podcast has been made possible by Prophix software inside the financial planning and analysis realm. Long days often turn into long weeks for finance […]

717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies

Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare’s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career—a high-calorie leadership stint that would ultimately propel him into the CFO office at Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a publicly traded provider of digital workflow and tracking solutions. Says Winters: “It…
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716: Building Your Operational Model | Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft

Back in 2008, Chad Gold was working for Home Depot as an FP&A professional when the economic downturn upended the home building market and summoned him to the retailer’s forecasting front lines. “Finance had to be ahead of the business as far as thinking through all the different scenarios went because the housing markets were…
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715: Advancing Down a New Strategic Path | Todd McElhatton, CFO, Zuora

"Take risks and fail. The best learning experiences come from plans that didn’t turn out the way you thought, but force you to put them back on track." - CFO Todd McElhatton of Zuora Among the growing number of finance leaders who can be classified as cloud computing CFOs, few have arguably stayed in step…
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714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, Transfix

In March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an independent company. “As we spun off, we paid a massive dividend to the parent of $18 billion, and our central thought became: ‘How do we survive? How…
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713: Banker, Builder, Finance Leader | Stuart Henrickson, CFO, Bold Commerce

In the late 1990s, when Stuart Henrickson was CFO for Koch Industries’ Canadian operations, Chase Manhattan made him a job offer unlike any that he had received before. “It was a fork in the road for me. Koch had been consolidating and bringing many of its operations back to their head office in the U.S.,…
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712: Making an Impact One Employee at a Time | Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media

When Maria Manrique stepped into her first role as a CFO, she did so knowing that her finance leader mentor was still in the building—in fact, he was occupying the CEO office. “It would be unfair of me to not say that this was critical—being able to step into the role and have someone there…
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