Maintaining strong leadership of an entire finance team is hard, no question about it. But as CFOs have seen lately, remote leadership can present even more challenges. When the pandemic hit, finance operations everywhere moved from corporate buildings and conference rooms to home offices and kitchen tables. And while some CFOs may…...
Millennial Workforce: How to survive in the corporate world?
In today’s era, millennials and Gen Z make most of the workforce in corporate organizations. Born in the 1980s and 1990s, millennials comprise 30 percent of the population and they will represent 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025.workforce, Millennial Workforce An increasing number of corporate organizations are into…...
The Return of the Finance Talent War
Senior executive hiring has returned at an increased pace over pre-pandemic levels in recent months. Pent-up demand, stimulus-induced growth, and less-than-predicted economic damage have many organizations aggressively seeking to bring in new leadership talent. This year is already among the top five years of recruitment activity I have observed in…...
Who Should Your First Accounting Hire Be: Controller, Senior Accountant, or CFO?
Congratulations on successfully establishing your business and beginning operations! Now that you’re up and running, you may be considering your first accounting hire. But, how do you know what position to fill first? How can you be confident that your course of action is the right one? At Aronson, we…...
CFO Digital Transformation: Digitalization Involving Finance
CFO Digital Transformation. What is a CFO? And what is its role in the company’s journey to digital transformation? Today’s CFOs also play a leading role in digital transformation. This post will tell you more. What Is A CFO? CFO means “Chief Finance Officer.” It is an executive officer which…...
Remote Recruitment
Managers can interview and onboard new employees from a distance during these unprecedented times. Many accounting and finance organizations have been forced to close their physical offices and conduct work remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and these companies have had to come up with new ways of hiring staff.…...
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…...
3 skills finance professionals cannot go without in 2021 and beyond
The accountancy and audit industries are on the cusp of an automation transformation, guided by the incredible growth of emerging technologies like robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI). What’s more, the world is experiencing the most significant global recession since the 1930s Great Depression. The evolution of the…...
How to re-enter finance after an extended leave
People take career breaks for many reasons: To raise children, care for ailing relatives, manage their own health issues, or even explore personal growth opportunities (think travel and volunteer work). Regardless of why an accounting or finance professional temporarily leaves the workforce, figuring out how to re-engage after a long…...
Career Changes During the Pandemic
Shifting priorities during the global pandemic provide new job opportunities for finance professionals equipped to adapt to change. We’re living through a period of immense economic uncertainty as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to play out. In times like these, it might seem cavalier for finance professionals…...
The finance strategist: A new paradigm for a new world
Payables, receivables, closing the books, creating budgets, analysing variances — for decades these have been the core of the accountant's job. But times are changing. While assuring the integrity of financial statements remains job one, it is becoming an increasingly smaller part of the accountant's role. The combination of process…...
3 Predictions for Accounting & Finance in 2021
Everything changed in 2020—the way we work, the way we shop, the way we learn, the way we socialize and celebrate, and hopefully, the way we look out for each other. 2020 has challenged us to adapt quickly and rethink everything. And yet, in other areas, 2020 has changed nothing:…...
Finding the next generation of CFOs
When we predict the future of the C-suite, the chief financial officer (CFO) looks set to be pivotal. In this choppy economic world with workforce and investment priorities ever-changing, their brief may even become more influential, and more powerful, than that of the chief executive. But many believe not enough…...
Managing and Building Remote Finance Teams
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it challenging for leaders to manage, hire, and train new employees while working remotely. Using digital technology during the COVID-19 crisis to allow remote work has helped many financial professionals, enabled companies to continue serving customers, and made it possible for some businesses to…...
2021 Hiring Trends for Finance
The organizational changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have shaped hiring strategies and requirements for finance and accounting companies. As businesses grapple with the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, they must become more agile, efficient, and innovative than ever. The pool of available talent is much more robust…...
How Finance Leaders Can Equip Their Team To Tackle Change
In the face of economic turmoil, agility has taken on a new meaning for organisations. For modern enterprises, agility has become a defining characteristic of businesses that can better anticipate what is coming, act quickly when faced with change, and more decisively respond to the demands of customers, market shifts,…...
