The role of the CFO is changing: It’s moving away from compliance and optimization, towards a more strategic; customer facing
The role of the CFO is changing: It’s moving away from compliance and optimization, towards a more strategic; customer facing
By Grant Tait, Author, former Finance Director
Grant is a qualified chartered accountant with an MBA from INSEAD in France. His career included more than 25 years managing teams in Europe in multinational corporations whose headquarters were in USA, Italy, Switzerland and Japan and before that, he was an accountant in various professional firms in the UK and Europe. He has also been involved in three start-ups, and worked as a consultant and transition manager.
Grant also writes on Medium and LinkedIn. He has written a book about managers who never make decisions called ‘How to become a no-decision manager’ and has a blog on them: https://nodecisionmanager.co.uk/ He has a second blog making fun of accountants: https://boring accountants.co.uk/ He has also written humorous articles about life in multinationals, anonymously or as Grant Petrie to protect his employment. They were published in various professional magazines such as Management Today, Personnel Journal and Management Accounting. He now lives in France.
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