Crunch time for CFOs: The CFO role isn’t just changing. It’s expanding.
CFOs, are you ready to be exponential?
“Change in the CFO role” is a familiar topic. But this change? At this pace? It’s exponential—and today’s Finance leaders will likely need to be exponential to meet it head-on. As macro dynamics and business implications interact to shape strategy, the enterprise of 2030 will likely expect more from the CFO. Are you ready?
The pressure to reinvent, rethink, and reshape is intensifying—and boards, CEOs, and other executives will look to the CFO and the Finance team to help plan for the future.
To answer this call, we are likely to see an exponential CFO take center stage—an executive who can lead the organization by accelerating value creation, driving enterprise-wide operational excellence, and shaping talent experience and culture.
The Exponential CFO
To face today's challenges, you should be an exponential CFO, an executive who can lead the organization through unprecedented changes, both in scale and speed. Are you ready to be exponential? Check out our latest video to learn more.
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Macro dynamics and business implications
As macro market forces shape the shifts in how businesses operate and create value, what is needed and expected of the CFO and the finance team is likely to not only evolve but expand. Change at this pace involves a constant interplay among macro forces bringing unique business implications.
Technology
Technological innovation and user adoption, overall, are accelerating at an extraordinary pace.
Demographics
Aging populations and generational differences tend to be driving new dynamics in the workforce and consumer behaviors.
Environment
Growing environmental instability appears to be driving behavior change across companies, investors, governments, and consumers.
Geopolitics
Rising economic nationalism and trade protectionism pose potential challenges to future international economic cooperation.
Capital markets
Shifting fiscal policy and quantitative tightening measures seem to have ended the era of zero-rate capital.
Business model disruption
Industry competition intensifies, forcing companies to innovate within and beyond industry boundaries, leading to new ways to grow and new business risks to manage.
Growing performance expectations
Rising pressure to deliver on a broad spectrum of performance beyond just financial measures.
Tougher capital decisions
Increasingly more complex and uncertain trade-offs between investments in short-term performance and long-term growth across M&A, IPO, and infrastructure.
Evolving regulatory requirements
Growing needs for greater transparency and frequency of reporting—often beyond financials—from regulatory bodies. Shifting stakeholder needs.
Shifting stakeholder needs
Customers, employees, network partners, and regulators have more influence over business decisions than ever before.
