We've encountered a lot of events in the past three years. Our ups and downs had a huge impact on our careers as finance professionals. If you think about it, it's a great opportunity to eat your share of the market pie of finance to excel in your career further. But priorities have changed over the past years and Senior Executives are looking for something exceptional in a candidate in order to hire them and hold them responsible for such a strategic role as a Chief Financial Officer.

Here are some of the important factors that determine your future outcome, and your road plan to becoming an exceptional candidate:

🧠Agility, Purpose-Driven Leader.

Agility in the mindset is what holds CFOs and Operations Directors back because mindset agility is the ability to think differently.

Working on various techniques to move forward with our foundational thinking, and transforming the way we see things into flexible and agile behavior towards financial planning is a key factor in organizations' success.

💼Influential, Connected Leader.

It's important to know how to connect with people. Although it's outside of our comfort zone, it will help in assessing different perspectives of your team members and how to categorize your team to be able to walk with them through their development plan. Knowing their strengths and weaknesses.

📚Capacity, Responsible Leader

Even if you hired the best people in the industry and adopted the most cutting-edge technologies, your FP&A department will not contribute value to the company unless you free up their time to communicate efficiently and extensively with the other departments.

⚙️Transformational, Strategic Leader.

There is a massive transformation change agenda that is ahead of us as finance professionals. Most of the important questions to ask ourselves when we're assigned with a heavy project are:

1. What is the project?

2. What can I do to really ensure that I will have success?

3. How do I have a better decision-making strategy even with limited information given?

💡Innovative, Intellectual Leader.

Innovation is the way forward. As the years of continuous improvement have long gone. These small steps will not get us where we want to be in the future. And asking ourselves:

1. How can we achieve that innovation?

2. How can we set ourselves up for success?

🖥️ Digitizing, Future Leader.

Finance digitalization means integrating a variety of technology and methods to help your finance department provide value in today's digital era.

👨🏻👩🏻Conscious, Reflective Leader.

We'll be less successful than we could be if we do not implement reflection or self-awareness. Walking through the needed development plan in order to make sure that you'll be able to do things that are necessary within your organization's needs from the business perspective.

There is nothing worse than not being able to implement things. Knowing a theory but not how to do it

—Talita Ferreira

There are some important questions that you'll ask yourself during your career at some point:

1. How can you apply what you've learned in your future career?
2. How can I transform my thinking into a leader-like one?
3. What other factors should I be worried about throughout my career?
4. Why not present insights from visualizing data to executive board members instead of descriptive values?
5. How to future-proof my career?

You must be wondering now if there are too many questions to ask! My brain stopped working. And now you're in panic mode, worrying about how your career might not jump to the point where you dreamed it would be.

Well, certainly not.

Acquiring general knowledge from external resources is a great self-study method. It will surely help you to put yourself on the right track, but with a low probability of success.

There is a great book that I read called "What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful" - by Marshall Goldsmith.

What this book discusses basically is that you've made a certain effort to reach from point A to point B. In order to reach point C, you'll have to change your mindset and the way you developed yourself in the past in order to reach new heights.

Some of the key points summarized are

• The higher you go in an organization, the more your suggestions become interpreted as orders.
• Delusional confidence causes you to resist change.
• Smart people know what to do. They need to know what to stop.

Those were part of the reasons why the Hub of Finance Transformation decided to create the Next Generation CFO Leadership Program .

This program will help you in your career growth to the ultimate level of finance. led by top-in-business finance leaders and CFOs to deliver the desired results you were looking for across your lifetime career.

Here's the program outline for the Next Generation CFO Leadership Program.

These are some of the things you'll learn during your educational time in the Next Generation CFO Leadership Program:

✈️CO-PILOT

Leads strategically facilitate change and influence people and decisions. actively involved in all significant business decisions and major initiatives to drive change and growth.

Module #1, #2

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Accelerated Financial Leadership

🛥NAVIGATOR

Steers an organization toward value creation and sustained profitability by providing decision-relevant & actionable insights.

Module #1, #4

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Data & Analytics for Finance Business Results

🤽BRAND PROTECTOR

Protect the organization and its reputation through stewardship of tangible & intangible assets & financial & non-financial performance.

Module #1, #5

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Performance Management & Reporting, including Integrated Reporting

🎤STORYTELLER

Enlighten internal and external stakeholders on the organization’s narrative, how it creates value over time, and the opportunities and challenges it faces.

Module #3, #4

• Finance, Digital Transformation
• Data & Analytics for Finance & Business Results

🚀M&A / BUSINESS EXPANSION ENABLER

“Getting M&A right is a challenge, particularly in the current climate of high valuations and stiff competition. An adept CFO can make the difference between a successful deal and an M&A disaster. ”

Module #5

• Performance Management & Reporting, including Integrated Reporting

📱DIGITAL & TECHNOLOGY ENABLER

It enables a cognitive and data-driven business that utilizes digitalization, including automation, artificial intelligence, and data, in ways that drive decisions and growth.

This program tackles various themes during the multimodal learning journey of 7–10 months structured around finance, business partnership, leadership, strategy & value creation, digital transformation, data analytics, performance management, and relevant skill development for the CFO role.

At the end of this program, participants will emerge equipped with the skills, tools, and frameworks needed to lead financial transformation and handle the increasingly complex challenges being faced by their organizations.

🛫 THE TAKEAWAY

After attending this program, you'll be able to:

• Enhance your strategic thinking skills outside traditional areas such as accounting and finance.
• Bolster your leadership skills to better communicate with non-financial colleagues by building an effective business partnership.
•  Be a better decision-maker who can assess disparate data from many areas of your company and help the CEO, board, and other leaders create a long-term path forward.
• Leverage digital and emerging technologies in finance and business in order to drive real business results.

Want to be a part of this great leadership program to transform your career to the next level? Hit me with a simple DM or comment below and I will get in contact as soon as possible. 📩

The Next Generation CFO Leadership Program Brochure and Details

Next Generation CFO Leadership Program 6 Months Virtual Sessions By Globally Renowned CFOs & Finance Thought Leaders

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