This Episode Features FP&A Insights & Commentary from: Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media Harmit Singh, CFO, Levi Strauss & Co. Andrew Kenny, CFO, Scoular Unedited Transcript This podcast has been made possible by Prophix software inside the financial planning and analysis realm. Long days often turn into long weeks for finance […]
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717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies
Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare’s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career—a high-calorie leadership stint that would ultimately propel him into the CFO office at Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a publicly traded provider of digital workflow and tracking solutions. Says Winters: “It…
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716: Building Your Operational Model | Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft
Back in 2008, Chad Gold was working for Home Depot as an FP&A professional when the economic downturn upended the home building market and summoned him to the retailer’s forecasting front lines. “Finance had to be ahead of the business as far as thinking through all the different scenarios went because the housing markets were…
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715: Advancing Down a New Strategic Path | Todd McElhatton, CFO, Zuora
"Take risks and fail. The best learning experiences come from plans that didn’t turn out the way you thought, but force you to put them back on track." - CFO Todd McElhatton of Zuora Among the growing number of finance leaders who can be classified as cloud computing CFOs, few have arguably stayed in step…
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714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, Transfix
In March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an independent company. “As we spun off, we paid a massive dividend to the parent of $18 billion, and our central thought became: ‘How do we survive? How…
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713: Banker, Builder, Finance Leader | Stuart Henrickson, CFO, Bold Commerce
In the late 1990s, when Stuart Henrickson was CFO for Koch Industries’ Canadian operations, Chase Manhattan made him a job offer unlike any that he had received before. “It was a fork in the road for me. Koch had been consolidating and bringing many of its operations back to their head office in the U.S.,…
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