Risk Mitigation

• How B&Q is planning beyond the 2020 retail rollercoaster

  The finance director at UK and Ireland retailer B&Q explains how frequent forecasting, scenario modelling, and contingencies are part of 2021 planning.

• 5 tactics to plan your way through the pandemic in 2021

  Many businesses are taking creative approaches to pandemic planning as they brace for a rocky ride through 2021.

• Banking CFO: Collaboration enabled teams to meet system challenges

  Syed Ahmad Taufik Albar, group CFO at RHB Bank, shares how the bank with a history of more than 100 years leveraged its agile way of working and collaborated across teams to manage the financial upheavals the pandemic caused.

• Pandemic increased the urgency to prepare business for growth

  The finance leader of a US-based software company talks about the limitations the pandemic imposed on the company’s global sales force at a time when demand for data analytics software is rising.

• Consumer goods finance leader: Safety first during pandemic

  By emphasising psychological safety, Mikateko Tshetshe, FCMA, CGMA, is nurturing true ‘diversity of thought’ within the finance function.

• Consumer goods CFO: Focused on growth and capturing Indian market

  Srinivas Phatak, finance chief at Hindustan Unilever Limited, shares his insights for managing present challenges posed by the pandemic and his focus on growth in 2021.

• Energy services finance leader: We had to manage cash in a crisis

  Japheth Jev, ACMA, CGMA, is the CFO at Triumph Power and Gas Systems Limited in Lagos, Nigeria, shares the strategies and tools he used to lead his finance team through the worst of the COVID-19 crisis.

• Pandemic lessons for the next global crisis

  Here are lessons from a year of disruption and uncertainty, compiled in a playbook or toolkit, for whatever challenges may lie ahead.

• Leading through COVID-19 upheaval in Nigeria

  An African finance executive explains how the pandemic is forcing the profession to be more flexible and to develop evergreen accounting strategies.

• Making strategic planning relevant in an uncertain world

  Resilience and realism should be the focus for forward-looking plans.

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