Four Faces of the CFO - Strategist

The Strategist is a director, focused on defining the future of the company to enhance business performance and shareholder value. The Strategist provides a financial perspective on innovation and profitable growth; leverages this perspective to improve risk-awareness, strategic decision-making and performance management integration; and translates the expectations of the capital markets into internal business imperatives.

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Definition
Provide financial leadership in determining strategic business direction and align financial strategies

Resources:

Finance Transformation in the Global Corporation
Real-life examples of how finance transformation can provide opportunities to improve strategies, operations and drive business performance.

CFO and Tax Executives’ Perspectives on Corporate Tax
A Deloitte Tax LLP and CFO Research survey of more than 225 senior tax and finance executives' views on how tax, finance and general management can collaborate to improve business decision making.

The Finance Talent Challenge: How leading CFOs are taking charge
A global survey of senior finance executives that explores how CFOs are tapping the people side of finance to assume a more strategic role.

Strategy Execution: Linking Value, Metrics, and Rewards
In this report, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and CFO Research Services examine how successful companies use performance management to generate value.

Investigative Due Diligence in International Business Relationships: Look Before You Leap
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP surveyed 565 executives from companies involved in investing and developing business relationships internationally

Integrated Performance Management
The key to generating business insight

Merging Alliances: Ignore at Your Own Risk
Six tips that can help you overcome common alliance-related pitfalls in a post-transaction integration

Disarming the Value Killers
A risk management study

The Risk Intelligent Enterprise
ERM done right

Different Paths to One Truth: Finance Brings Value Discipline to Strategy Execution
How can your finance function increase its contribution to strategy execution?

Breathing Lessons (How CFOs can thrive under pressure)
Our seventh book in the Straight Talk Series is dedicated to the CFO who, more than ever, faces mounting pressures for performance and accountability – and whose turnover rate has never been higher. Learn more

Case Studies:

Finance Transformation in Pharmaceuticals: From the F Troop to the 82nd Airborne
How the finance function at a leading pharmaceutical company generated considerable business value and improved efficiency.

In the News:

Deloitte Thought Leaders Discuss Issues Facing the CFO and Finance Function

Industry Focus

Federal Financial Management Solutions Center
The Deloitte Federal Financial Management Solutions Center provides innovative, practical solutions for the Federal Chief Financial Officers' (CFO) most pressing financial management and financial transformation challenges.

Consumer Business
The Retail Growth Challenge Framework Series
This series focuses on key issues that consumer product manufacturers should be thinking about to achieve sustained, profitable growth in the years ahead.

Bridging the Gap
This article explores the importance of developing a responsive and flexible organizational structure to support multichannel effectiveness.

Going Green – Staying Green
Retailers and wholesalers can reap significant tax benefits by adopting environmentally friendly business practices.

Being Good is Good Business
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has taken hold; in fact, 25 percent of the Fortune 500 now publish annual CSR reports.

Life Sciences & Health Care
Clinical Information Systems: The Key to Transforming Tomorrow’s Hospital
Requires a business case value approach

2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers
The study found many U.S. consumers want major changes in health care design and delivery with implications for providers, health plans, life science companies, policy makers and employers.

Industry Compass 2005
An interactive resource for navigating the Life Sciences & Health Care landscape

Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Competition at the Crossroads: Strategic Planning and Action in Disruptive Markets
Understand the changing nature of competition and implications for strategic planning. This study is based on in-depth conversations with senior executives closely involved in strategic planning and a quantitative survey of 181 executives representing major technology sectors.