Finance isn't just a cost centre... but how do you convince management?
By Andy Burrows
One thing I’ve realised recently is that, in the minds of Finance professionals, the questions over the place and value of the Finance function are closely linked with questions about their careers.
I don’t know why it suddenly dawned on me. It’s kind of obvious when I think about it!
Perhaps it’s just that when I asked a little while ago what questions people had about Finance careers, I didn’t expect to get questions like this one:
“How can you convince top management that the Finance department is not just a cost centre, but way more?”
There were other questions similar to that, but I’ll write about those perhaps in other articles.
Being merely a cost is a career dead-end
Clearly, if we are just seen as costs in the business, then that’s a bit of a dead-end in terms of careers.
The thing any business wants to do with costs is to reduce them. So, if Finance is just a cost, then the only thing you’d want to...
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