What are your finance leader priorities over the next 12 months? Johanna: Over the next 12 months, would like to get my team to understand the different business operations in other areas of our organization to a larger extent. I also want to build APIs and dashboards that will help each area of the organization […]
229: Identifying Your Cost and Revenue Drivers, Joe Consul, CFO, Xactly
Join us when Joe Consul, CFO, Xactly explains how employees are the firm's greatest drivers of both cost and growth and why culture is essential for achieving the correct balance between the two. Joe's Site
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228: Retooling Your Planning Process, Dan Crumb, CFO, Kansas City Chiefs
Join us when Dan Crumb, CFO, Kansas City Chiefs, explains how finance professionals help to energize organizational culture as they actively build relationships and embed financial tools across the enterprise.
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227: When “Coin In” is the Mission-Critical Metric, Kurt Schmidt, CFO, San Carlos Apache Tribal Gaming Enterprise
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My 2016 Priorities: Nitin Gupta, CFO, Molecular Imaging Systems, Siemens Healthcare
My 2016 Priorities: Didier Aziza, CFO, Bel Brands, USA
Over the next 12 months, what are your priorities as a finance leader? Didier: As you understood, growth is a priority for Bel Brands, so here I’m really working with my team to best determine how the finance can contribute to fuel the growth and really help our growth drivers, who are sales and marketing […]
224: Rewiring Finance to Achieve Customer Success, Mike Picchi, CFO, Allconnect
Join us when Mike Picchi, CFO, Allconnect, exposes the innovative leadership path that made Allconnect’s customer experience a central component of its finance function. Take an in-depth look at a leadership path that allowed finance to expand its influence involving advanced technologies, savvy management practices and talent development; Learn how to validate the business case…
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223: Measuring Online Banking’s Steady Strides, Suk Shah, CFO, Avant
As the former CFO of HSBC’s commercial banking business in the U.S. and Canada, Suk Shah looks back at his traditional finance days as though he's peering down from the porthole of a spacecraft orbiting Earth. Join us when Suk charts his journey from large enterprise finance to Avant, a fast-growing online lender that has already originated over $3 billion…
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222: Charting the Entrepreneur’s Path, Robbie Sprechman, CFO, Fierce Brands
If you have only 10 listening minutes to spare, you won't feel cheated listening to Robbie Sprechman's opening anecdote about how he first entered the office of the CFO. There's little doubt that CFO Sprechman's unusual career path satisfied an entrepreneur itch, while at the same time steadily advancing his finance career. No small feat…
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221: Building a Global Brand’s U.S. Business, Didier Aziza, CFO, Bel Brands USA
As the maker of Laughing Cow cheese, Bel Brands USA today sells its cheese products in over 90 percent of retail grocery stores and warehouse clubs within the United States, a fact expected to help the cheesemaker reach its lofty goal of $500 million in annual revenue by 2020. Join us when Didier Aziza, CFO, Bel Brands,…
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The 8th Role of the CFO: How Customer Success Became Your CFO’s Magic Ring
Make no mistake, it’s a face-off that pits corporate finance leaders, the back-office number-crunching set – who at times seem more like nerdy comic book figures than true strategy-minded captains of industry – against a ticking clock intent on rendering the latest class of finance leaders irrelevant. You may recall that in our last post, […]