Listen, Observe, Connect: Priorities For A CFO’s First 90 Days
Delve deep into your new employer’s operations, follow the customer journey and establish genuine connections with new colleagues, says Arthur Carrier of Ziplines Education.
Delve deep into your new employer’s operations, follow the customer journey and establish genuine connections with new colleagues, says Arthur Carrier of Ziplines Education.
“We need the right chemistry and diversity in teams to determine what will help the client grow their business the best and to have those teams work in a way that will ignite ideas,” says the ad agency’s global CFO.
“The challenge is creating the universal framework that lets systems communicate, alleviating data inconsistencies caused by human error and achieving a single source of truth,” says Qu CFO Peter “Reyn” Holden.
“CFOs should already be demonstrating their competency level in their daily role if they want to transition seamlessly to CEO when the time comes,” says Arun Dhingra of Egon Zehnder.
“Our restaurant team members create exceptional experiences for guests; those of us in support roles at the home office want to do the same for our team members,” says Dewey’s Pizza CFO MaryAnn Waltz.
To secure young talent, many CFOs have had to adjust compensation and position accounting more thoughtfully to potential hires, says Nicholas Malone, CFO of E78 Partners.