If you could bolster your finance team with one particular skill set or expertise, which would it be? Deloitte reports on what the top finance executives are thinking and doing. Below is an extract from their findings.
Very strong demand for people who can effectively use data to influence business decisions:
• Strong demand for analytics expertise: about one-quarter of CFO’s say they would like to bolster their team with expertise around the gathering, analysis, and presentation aspects of analytics.
• Business acumen over technical finance skills: While some CFO’s mention a desire to add technical skills to their finance team [especially around FP&A and tax], many more voice a need for stronger business understanding and acumen.
• Leadership and influence highly valued: CFO’s voice a strong demand for people who can not only analyze and synthesize data, but also for those who can persuasively communicate insights and ideas to people throughout the business. Central to their comments, traits they believe go along with influential staff – curiosity, confidence, consultative skills, and big-picture thinking.
If you could bolster your finance team with one particular skill set or expertise, which would it be?
* This chart presents a summary of CFO’s free-form responses. CFO comments have been consolidated and paraphrased.
Extract taken from Deloitte