McCauley: When you have such a heterogeneous install base that Calendly has, we have so many different use cases in so many different industries with so many different levels of complexity. When you look at our data at a consolidated basis, it has nominal value. It’s hard to take action on this heterogeneous group that […]
Where FP&A Resides | Gary Zyla, CFO, AssetMark
Zyla: The Finance team I oversee, it’s fun and it’s broad. You have Business Intelligence, I have Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Communications, and PR are part of our Finance team, which is somewhat unusual. Sometimes, we have FP&A, of course, we have Controllership. But, the Business Intelligence is amazing. And, I think in many companies, […]
885: Landing Your Career’s “Pivot Position” | Robert Mitchell, CFO, Zepz
Robert Mitchell had been sizing up new venture opportunities for PayPal for roughly 3 years when the door to an operations role swung open. Impressed by his financial modeling know-how, Mitchell tells us, PayPal’s credit bosses “handpicked” him to create a framework for launching and monitoring new credit offerings. For Mitchell, there was no turning…
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883: The Confidence That Only Experience Brings | Javier Echave, CFO, Heathrow
When Heathrow CFO Javier Echave tells us that one of his greatest career lessons was learned from being passed over for the giant airport’s CFO position, we wonder whether we misunderstood him. He continues: “It was then that I learned in the most painful way that securing my own succession to the CFO office…
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Achieving a Strategic Alignment | Teodora Gouneva, CFO, NEXT Insurance
Machine generated transcript Gouneva: I would probably say until a few months after I joined, we were very focused on top line growth, and majority of what we report and how we will report is premium, which for us is indication of top line growth. And we had to make a shift given everything else […]
880: When Success Begets Risk | Teodora Gouneva, CFO, NEXT Insurance
Teodora Gouneva was enjoying one of the more satisfying chapters of a 25-year finance career when she began hearing voices again. She tells us that although for most of her work trajectory she had been able to ignore them, on this occasion the contentment that she had so carefully guarded began to give way. The…
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879: Where SaaS Roots Run Deep | Bas Brukx, CFO, Allego
With regard to finance leaders who are counted among the ranks of today's SaaS CFOs, it goes without saying that 20 years ago, most were somewhere other than at SaaS companies. In fact, many of them have no doubt arrived inside the SaaS realm only within the past 10 years or so as part of…
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878: When the Path Rises to Meet You | Don Bassell, CFO, ARKO Corp.
As we have been interviewing CFOs from different industries, many finance leaders have told us that they had bracketed the CFO office as their preferred career destination beginning from Day One of their professional lives. Still others have reported that it was only due to the intervention of a determined mentor that they were able…
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877: The Transformative Transaction | Gary Zyla, CFO, AssetMark
It was the type of CFO position that Gary Zyla probably would not have been able to find outside of Genworth Financial, a financial services company that he had first joined in 2004. Not that his resume didn’t already have some solid CFO prerequisites, but the leadership challenge that Zyla was about to take on…
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Here’s Where We Drive Value | Jim Young, CFO, Coalition
CFO GUEST: Jim Young of Coalition, Inc. EPISODE: 876: Exposing Where Business Value Resides
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876: Exposing Where Business Value Resides | Jim Young, CFO, Coalition
Looking back on their career-building years, few finance leaders ever forget the first time that they presented to a board of directors. For many, the stares of the individual directors around the table remain locked in time, forever evergreen. For Jim Young, the gazes that stay ever-present are some that were cast not from across…
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