The four dimensions of awesomeness in the Finance function
By Andy Burrows
Do you want to be awesome in your work in Finance?
Perhaps you roll your eyes cynically? Perhaps ‘awesome’ seems to be a bit over-the-top?
I mean, ok, so you’d rather be ‘a little bit good’, ‘in the upper quartile’ or ‘showing signs of improvement’? Yawn...
Well, whatever you think of this article, I hope you’ll come away picturing what a Finance team would be like to work in if it was really [insert your own favoured superlative].
And when you’re thinking about Finance transformation, that picture could form the basis for the vision. That’s what you want to transform into. When you close your eyes and visualise an awesome Finance team, you don’t normally visualise a brand new shiny SAP instance or an offshore service centre. So, what do you visualise?
A new paradigm for working in Finance
Anyway, this article is really all about defining the new paradigm for working in Finance.
A paradigm...
The Purpose-Driven CFO Part 9: Developing Finance Business Partnering
By Andy Burrows
[First published 20th July 2017]
[This article is also on LinkedIn - why not "Follow+" Andy and give the article a "like"?]
I don’t take it for granted that anyone reading this will have read the other articles in this series. Perhaps you have a particular interest in Finance Business Partnering. So, for new readers, I’ll just briefly reiterate the premise of The Purpose-Driven CFO.
That is, what I set out to do was to investigate what difference it makes going back to first principles with the things we do in Finance, and asking “why?” I know from experience that understanding why we do things can increase our motivation in doing them. Once you can see the end goal, and see the benefits of that goal, any tedious, mundane, difficult or complex steps towards it become less burdensome. And often asking “why” reveals implications that will change the way we do things. That has certainly been the case with all the...
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