Earlier in her career, Laura LaPeer reframed treasury and procurement from transactional functions into strategic levers—investing idle cash and aligning vendor decisions with business goals. The shift delivered tangible financial impact and taught her to zoom out, reassess timing, and connect everyday tasks to long-term strategic objectives.
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UHY CFO Laura LaPeer outlines a disciplined scale plan: reach $1B in four to five years, supported by a private-equity partnership. She’s unifying historically regional operations into “One UHY,” standardizing on Workday and a shared data layer to speed insight. Growth will blend targeted acquisitions with service expansion in CAS, valuation, SALT, and deal-adjacent work. Geographic focus includes West Coast entries sequenced to avoid busy-season resourcing gaps. Drawing on a prior career chapter, she recast “transactional” treasury and procurement into strategic levers—an approach she now applies by building the bench, nationalizing specialty offerings, and aligning partners around clear, business-led finance.
| CFO’s Strategy Playbook |
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| • Build the bench to unlock organizational leverage. |
| • Operate as one firm with unified systems. |
| • Recast transactions into strategy; invest with discipline. |