Cfo Thought Leader
534: Finding Your Operational Footing | Constance Minc, CFO, IFS
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:28:48
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Synopsis
When a company opts to recruit a finance leader from the “outside world,” it’s not uncommon these days for the future CFO to first serve in a provisional role—one that can provide a wide view of the business while allocating a little extra time for on-the-job learning. So it was for Constance Minc, a veteran investment banker who logged 12 months as head of business operations for IFS before entering the ERP vendor’s CFO office last May. According to Minc, her 12-month stint in operations was as much about building bridges as it was about learning. “I was able to build trust with our key business stakeholders and create a bridge between the business and finance that has enabled us to transform finance,” she explains, while also noting that she used her stint in operations to develop a three-year business plan that now serves as her road map as IFS CFO. “This helped me to understand how our customer strategy needed to evolve and allowed me to build the business model with the business,” says Minc, who also s