The CFO’s changing role
Finance chiefs are confident their roles will change sooner rather than later, according to a Sage CFO survey. roup financial controller Jacqui Cartin: "we as finance organizations need to make sure we are constantly horizon-gazing and saying, ‘What needs to happen for us to be in trouble? What can we do to future-proof our company? Where’s the next ‘black swan’ event coming from?”
“I don’t necessarily have anxiety with the role of the CFO changing. I think it is a really exciting time, and having more of an opportunity for CFOs to be seen as a combination of stable, steady, guiding custodians, but with a really strong strategic, visionary mindset.”
Jacqui Cartin, executive vice president and group financial controller at Sage Group, producer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial software that primarily serves small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), knows the CFO role is changing, but embraces the opportunity it presents for her and like-minded finance chiefs.
