Strategic Finance Lab

Fresh Takes: Cash Flow, Spending Discipline, Profits and People


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Timely insights on liquidity and how finance can add value to the business from Chris Ortega of Fresh FP&A.


“Profits are a dream but cash is a reality.” That’s among the timely, on-target insights aimed at CFOs, treasurers and other finance executives in this episode of NeuGroup’s Strategic Finance Lab podcast.

It’s delivered by Chris Ortega, the CEO of Fresh FP&A, a consultancy focused on finance transformation that provides businesses with fractional CFO, FP&A and finance support. Mr. Ortega’s insights are grounded in his extensive background in accounting, audit, FP&A and finance leadership at high-growth companies.

  • In an interview with NeuGroup’s Nilly Essaides, he makes clear and compelling the need for finance teams to adjust to volatile capital markets and a shifting economic landscape by building paths to cash flow sustainability and optimizing working capital management. It’s all about liquidity.
  • Equally critical for finance leaders: partnering with business units and providing value amid rising inflation, higher interest rates and the likelihood of recession.
  • And as you’ll hear, Chris Ortega is passionate about urging finance leaders to put “people before the profits,” in part by taking a hard look at what they spend— on technology and consultants for starters—before reflexively turning to head count reductions. “At the end of all your analysis,” he says, “there’s a human element involved.

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