Automation is forcing finance professionals in Indian shared-service centres to change their mindset and skills. Rohit Kharbanda, FCMA, CGMA, a senior director at InterContinental Hotels Group, sees that as an opportunity.
Even with vaccination rates increasing and social-distancing restrictions easing, employees may be anxious about a return to busy offices in city centres, or the impact of a return to commuting on their work/life balance.
The head of finance operations and transformation program for a pan-African bank considers perseverance, vulnerability, and tech savvy as essential to success.
The CFO for PepsiCo’s CIS business says finance leaders need to develop professional resilience and business partnering skills and ‘see the big picture’.
Data is increasingly gaining in importance to understand and predict the business, particularly in retail industries. To keep up, finance professionals should learn continuously.
Even in this era of rapid technological change, foundational accounting skills are still among the most important career advantages for finance professionals, according to one CFO.
A finance executive at Yelp shares why he’s passionate about career development, what he considers his top professional challenge, and more in this Q&A.
Finance professionals need to adapt their skillsets to the market quickly, according to Unilever Poland AS finance director Magdalena Wereda-Kolasińska, FCMA, CGMA.
To influence tomorrow’s business decisions, finance talent must have a broad set of skills to manage risk and deal with uncertainty, the CFO of J&J’s pharma research-and-development unit suggests.
To emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, businesses should focus on the fundamentals of agility, technology, innovation, and resilient and visionary leadership.
Management accountants’ role in driving crisis recovery is backed by the Association’s advocacy work, says Andrew Harding, FCMA, CGMA, chief executive–Management Accounting at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.
