66% of finance leaders believe the digital competency gap within their finance team is widening. As technology continues to evolve and digital investments grow, finance leaders must build their team's digital competencies to deliver impact.
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Talent supply and demand increasingly concerns CEOs. CFOs worry too. Three in four finance organizations are likely to face a capability shortage because the finance team hasn’t yet mastered nontechnical skills like innovation and digital dexterity. And few finance-specific competency models and career paths exist. But, successful finance teams help CFOs reduce costs, increase clock speed and make more financially sound decisions.
Advanced technology, matrixed decision making and new service delivery models are changing the skills, competencies and behaviors that the finance team needs for success. It’s critical that finance leaders undergoing finance transformation expand finance team recruitment beyond traditional finance backgrounds and deploy an employability- and experience-based development model, not a ladder- and training-based framework.
To build a successful finance team and lead the next-generation workforce, CFOs take four steps:
Ethnic diversity in finance is one of the lowest across corporate functions, and the news is mixed when it comes to gender diversity. Finance leaders have a direct impact on this issue not only in managing their own function, but also through the extent to which they prioritize funding for corporate-level DEI initiatives.
Read the report to learn more about the measures finance leaders can take to move the needle.
While 80% of finance leaders believe the pace of digital technology implementation within finance will accelerate in the next few years, more than 70% of finance leaders lack digital competency specificity or training plans for developing these digital competencies.
Watch this complimentary session to see how finance organizations can identify critical digital competencies and provide tailored training for teams to develop in these areas, so they avoid losing ROI on their digital technology investments.
Change has become the new normal for all finance and accounting organizations, but during times of change employees exert more effort to get their work done, impacting their mental energy.
Uncover how leading senior finance executives equip their employees with tools and support to not just cope with, but thrive in the face of continuous change.
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