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By 2025, CFOs without a finance transformation strategy will be three times less likely to meet their objectives. To help your finance transformation avoid these risks, listen to this conversation with Gartner expert Peter Brannigan.
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Peter Brannigan is a senior director analyst in the Gartner finance research and advisory practice. He supports CFOs and their teams with actionable, objective insights on leading enterprise wide finance and compliance transformation initiatives and leveraging digital platforms with standard processes and sustainable operating models.
“CFOs can’t just view FP&A as a team in finance. They need to turn FP&A strengths into an enterprise capability.” (4:58) — Randeep Rathindran, Gartner Distinguished VP
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Gartner Distinguished VP Randeep Rathindran has a primary research focus on the CFO and FP&A leader roles, covering the key initiatives of Enterprise Growth and Cost, Financial Data and Analytics, and Finance Organization Transformation. He led syndicated research in a number of practice areas, including research and technology, corporate strategy, operations, and shared services, prior to joining Gartner’s finance research and advisory practice in 2014. He has extensive experience in quantitative research and econometric modeling.
“We should never start by looking at what data we have. But we should always start by asking ourselves one question … .” (7:03 in this podcast)
— Valeria Di Maso, director analyst, Gartner finance research and advisory
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Valeria Di Maso is a director analyst in Gartner’s finance research and advisory practice. Based in the U.K., Valeria supports CFOs and finance teams in addressing their key priorities in the finance data and analytics space. Her focus areas include finance data and analytics (D&A), management reporting optimization, dashboarding and visualization, global metrics and KPIs, and the invoice-to-cash process.
Valeria is a senior finance professional with 15 years’ experience in financial services, shared services and the energy industry at General Electric (GE). She held a number of progressive leadership positions in Italy, the Netherlands and the U.K., and she has a diverse background in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), pricing, finance transformation, analytics and reporting, and treasury and order-to-cash management. In her last assignment at GE Gas Power, Valeria led global initiatives to drive data visibility and actions around past due, billing and collections on a more than $3 billion account receivables balance portfolio.
“To get this off the ground, we’re going to have some spend that doesn't actually materialize into impact on the top or bottom line.” — Alexander Bant, Gartner Chief of Finance Research
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Nearly every CFO will spend more on AI in 2024. But for many organizations, this gold rush for new revenue and efficiency will have unintended consequences that extend well beyond operations. Alexander Bant, Chief of Finance Research at Gartner, breaks down how CFOs can manage and even control the four AI stalls putting enterprise growth at risk.
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Seventy-eight percent of CFOs ranked finance organization structure as one of their top priorities for 2024. However,r most CFOs find this a daunting task, given there is not single “correct” organization design and stakeholders often resist change. In this episode of the Gartner CFO Podcast, we talk to senior director of research Emily Connelly about how to effectively lead a finance org restructuring.
Reduced profitability is quickly becoming the new reality for CFOs. Moreover, the key areas where costs are rising most, such as digital transformation, are the same areas CEOs need financial leaders to prioritize investments and drive growth. Gartner VP of Research Dennis Gannon offers CFOs four critical trends and actions to successfully address these cost pressures and accurately forecast the approaching impacts on their organizations.
Gartner VP of Research Dennis Gannon works with research teams to address the shared challenges of CFOs and other finance leaders by bringing that research to life in one-on-one and group interactions with Gartner clients. Dennis is a regular presenter and keynote speaker at Gartner conferences and facilitates dozens of executive roundtables with CFOs and other finance leaders every year.
CFOs of top-performing enterprises exhibit specific traits — agreeableness, empowerment, accountability — and take specific actions, such as tying learning and development to strategic objectives. Listen now to discover how you can use these critical traits and actions to achieve positive business outcomes and growth.
In 2024, CFOs will be inundated by difficult challenges that determine success. As guest Marko Horvat explains, “CFOs are being tugged from a million different directions. So how do you allocate your time to make sure you're spending it on the right thing?”
Listen now to discover how you can improve the financial function, boost growth through productivity and enhance CFO effectiveness across the enterprise as well as additional key priorities in this critical episode of the CFO Podcast.
Marko Horvat is a vice president in Gartner’s Research and Advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation leaders. Marko has been a CFO, controller and head of financial planning and analysis, and led several transformation efforts in many industries, including public, private and nonprofit entities. Marko is a licensed CPA in California, where he resides.
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