Nov 24, 2019
When Chris Sands accepted an investor relations position at a midsize health care firm, he did so with the understanding that he would be permitted to occasionally sink his teeth into some of the firm’s growing FP&A challenges. Having a resume rich with investment banking experience, Sands was now determined to add...
Nov 20, 2019
For every top sales leader who confides to friends that he or she is really a numbers freak at heart, there’s an Andrew Hicks, who, as CFO of Advanced, would be just as apt to boast about a sales funnel innovation as he would about the adoption of a new accounting rule.
In fact, it would probably not surprise...
Nov 17, 2019
As is the case with many finance leader resumes, Cort Townsend’s reveals a repetition of professional advancement and achievement that allows casual readers to quickly validate his CFO credentials. However, like those of many, Townsend self-tale is only a shorthand rendering of a career path filled with twists, turns,...
Nov 10, 2019
CFOTL: What are your top of mind metrics?
Karnes: I think about metrics sort of under three rubrics. The
first is what I would think of as a customer-centric layer. Then
there's the financial performance one that we all think about as
CFOs, and then there's a very distinct operational layer. On the
customer-centric...