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869: Sharpening its Customer Focus | Ravi Narula, CFO, FinancialForce

Looking back, CFO Ravi Narula tells us that he wishes that he had become a “servant leader” sooner, as he references the familiar leadership tag signaling a mind-set focused on serving others. “If you asked me 15 years ago, ‘Do you have a servant leader mind-set?,’ unfortunately, I would have said ‘No,’” comments Narula, who…
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866: Metrics for the Masses | Jeremy Klaperman, CFO, Rho

Not unlike many of his CFO peers, Jeremy Klaperman spent the early years of his finance career in trying to rectify the damage brought on by the irrational market behaviors of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Unlike most, though, he found that his repair duties frequently involved visits to a remote Japanese fishing village.…
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How a Short Term Scorecard Became an Early Warning System | Patrick McClymont, CFO, Hagerty

CFO GUEST: Patrick McClymont of Hagerty EPISODE: #862: The Numbers Don’t Lie Machine Generated Transcript CFOTL: Does anything comes to mind when we ask for a finance strategic moment of insight? McClymont: The thing about this one, I go back to my time at IMAX, and so when I was hired at IMAX, the company […]

856: Understanding What’s in Your Control and What’s Not | Céline Dufétel, CFO, Checkout.com

When Checkout.com CFO Céline Dufétel tells us that her career decision-making has been driven not so much by titles or status but by an inner push to acquire the next level of skills or types of skills, we can’t help but note a mysterious coincidence. It seems that a former McKinsey & Company partner had…
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Ep 17: Legibility & Levers 

To grow efficiently businesses must have legibility across the organization, explains Airtable CFO Ambereen Toubassy, who tells us legibility can only be achieved by having everyone throughout the business using the same metrics. Along the way, Toubassy says finance leaders must ensure their organization’s data capture is being conducted correctly and consistently.   It may sound easy, but […]

830: Riding the Winds of Technology Convergence | Sandra Rowland, CFO, Xylem

When Samsung acquired Stamford, Connecticut-based Harman International for $8 billion in cash in 2017, it was not the first time that the South Korean company’s appetite for convergence IP had intersected with the career path of Harman CFO Sandra Rowland. A little more than 7 years earlier, Samsung executives had sat across the table from…
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Ep 14: Let RPA Lead Rather Than Replace

Steve and Jack discuss how the FP&A realm is becoming a world where data expertise and insights are as widely sought after as traditional budgeting and forecasting skills. Meanwhile, Steve urges finance professionals to take an enlightened view of robotic process automation (RPA). Rather than replace the work of humans, the adoption of RPA offers […]