- September 23, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
Good morning.
The job of CFOs has changed dramatically in recent years. As the keepers of metrics, they’ve had to adjust to both an explosion in data and data analytics, and also to a proliferation of goals measuring environmental and social as well as financial outcomes. That was the topic of a lively dinner conversation held in Chicago last night by the Fortune CFO Collaborative, in partnership with Workday and Deloitte. Most of the discussion was off-the-record. But Clem Johnson, president of the search firm Crist/Kolder, made some opening remarks to spark the conversation. Some excerpts:
On whether the battle for financial talent will continue, even if the economy slows:
“I certainly think we will be living with this demand pace that we’ve seen for at least the next five years…The increase in the sophistication, the complexity, the bandwidth of the CFO role, I don’t have to tell this group how incredibly demanding the role has…
