The chief financial officer (CFO) plays a critical role in any major organization. The specific duties of a CFO can vary somewhat from one company to the next. However, in general, a CFO is tasked primarily with ensuring an organization remains financially strong. It’s also worth noting that the nature of…...
What Does a CFO Do?
CFO, CEO, CRO, CMO, COO, it seems like the list never ends for these C-level executives. Knowing what role each person plays in the company can be challenging, whether it’s your first day or your fifteenth year. If you have set your heart on the CFO position, but you aren’t…...
How Much Industry Experience Does Your New CFO Need?
While exceptions can be made, industry experience matters more for upper-level finance hires than for other hires in an organization. Ask any group of talent acquisition professionals how essential industry experience is when hiring senior to C-level finance talent, and you get responses ranging from “less important than financial expertise”…...
CFO Qualities to Look for When Hiring for Your Organization
The chief financial officer (CFO) plays a critical role in any major organization. The specific duties of a CFO can vary somewhat from one company to the next. However, in general, a CFO is tasked primarily with ensuring an organization remains financially strong. It’s also worth noting that the nature of…...
Rising Turnover? CFOs May Need To Update Their Management Playbook
A sudden exodus of skilled talent is the last thing an organization needs these days. Businesses must have all hands on deck if they are to accelerate the changes and innovations that will help them compete and move forward. Yet in many companies right now, turnover is exactly what’s happening.…...
The Changing CFO: An Organization’s Voice Of Conscience
The global economy has put the spotlight firmly on the CFO. They will be the main strategist and driver behind organizational restructuring, divestments, and acquisitions. Today, however, a CFO’s top priority is to ensure their business survives during the pandemic. Being the CFO requires a tough mentality and the ability…...
How CFOs Are Successfully Navigating the New Reality of Uncertainty & Change
For higher education institutions across the globe, change is the new normal. And while change always brings new opportunities, it also creates tremendous uncertainty. From volatile political climates to increases in regulation, the rapid proliferation of new competitors to anticipated labor shortages, every CFO today must be ready to face and manage…...
What does it take to become CFO?
The pursuit to become a CFO can be a long, uncertain process. Few people will eventually reach this role in their companies, but a group of CFO panelists at the CFO Live virtual event Tuesday provided insights and key pieces of advice. For those who eventually make the cut, the first 30…...
How to become a Chief Financial Officer?
An accounting or finance professional aspiring to be a chief financial officer (CFO), must reflect a little to be certain they understand what it takes to become a CFO. CFO is generally the most sought-after job title to possess in anyone’s finance career. CFO is an executive-level professional financial professional…...
10 Vital Roles for CFOs
If CFOs have learned anything in the past year, it’s that they must be agile and innovative leaders skilled at predicting and planning for a future that is anything but predictable. The essential skills for CFO success go far beyond mastery of the financial basics, the ability to adopt popular…...
If Your Business Needs To Hire A CFO, Move Fast To Find A Great One
Many companies would not have survived 2020 if it weren’t for the guiding hand of a fully engaged CFO working closely alongside other senior executives to stabilize the business. These leaders have been on the front line in helping their organizations transition to new ways of operating, while also finding…...
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – Multifamily – LIHTC – Alpharetta, GA
Our client is a prominent, progressive and growing Real Estate Development, Construction and Management Company in Alpharetta, GA who has an immediate opening for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Multifamily – LIHTC to join their team. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Multifamily - LIHTC Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree…...
Taking on Too Much? How to Succeed as a CFO
Being a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a company can take a lot out of you. Studies show that stress keeps one in three Americans up at night. As a CFO, taking on stress is a part of the job, but how do you know when you should delegate? Knowing…...
5 Essential Traits To Look For When Hiring Your Next CFO
The role of the CFO has always been unique. CFOs are expected to strike a perfect balance between leadership, finance, strategy, and analytics — all with a healthy layer of governance and automation for good measure. That’s a tall order, but it’s in pursuit of scaling while creating repeatable, dependable…...
If you want to be a CFO, develop these 3 skills…
There are three areas of skills you need to develop if you want to be a good Chief Financial Officer or Finance business partner – business acumen, technical skills and behavioural skills. And my intention is to unpack these three areas a little bit, so that you can get to…...
Reshaping the Role
Surveys conducted before and during the pandemic show the coronavirus crisis may be reshaping the role of the CFO, with senior finance executives shifting their focus to crafting strategy and generating business value. CFO Research (part of Argyle Advisory and Research Services) and Grant Thornton surveyed 631 CFOs and other…...
