CONCLUSION
Don't forget finance
With everything and everyone on your mind, there’s one department that tends to slip — your own. When you own the numbers, you want the numbers to look really good — and sometimes, investments in finance — whether it be people, technology or process — are left off, according to Gorman. Investing in accounting and finance touches every challenge here — talent acquisition and retention, reducing fraud and increasing cybersecurity, enabling global expansion and reducing the burdens of legacy technology.
Bold CFOs are ready to go there. Are you?
Finance often gets last ups. A strategic decision is made and finalized, or everything is already budgeted, all departments have gone up to bat and there’s nothing left. And as the keeper of the books, you say, ‘There’s nothing left, I’m not going to take anything.’
JANELLE GORMAN CFO, YORK IE