Registration is now open for the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, Gartner’s flagship CFO event, on 20-21 May 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland. Reserve your space today.

Listen to this exclusive preview of the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, which helps organizations unlock enterprise value by transforming finance’s top roles:

• CFO: Mastering digital transformation. Measuring AI initiative risks and opportunities.
• Financial planning and analysis (FP&A): Modernizing data architecture. Creating business partnership influences.
• Controllers: Revamping governance models. Discovering the future of blockchain and accounting.
• VP of Finance Transformation: Building future organizational models. Evaluating consulting firms and business process outsourcing (BPOs).

Episode highlights:

• The urgency behind the conference’s autonomous finance theme (1:25)
• The CFO role is expanding to AI initiatives and cybersecurity (6:29)
• FP&A skill sets for modernizing data architecture (9:25)
• Controllers are under serious pressure with governance models and automation (11:24)
• VPs of financial transformation must build future organizational models (13:02)
• Cutting through the AI hype with expert interactions (15:37)

Seventy-eight percent of CFOs ranked finance organization structure as one of their top priorities for 2024. However,r most CFOs find this a daunting task, given there is not single “correct” organization design and stakeholders often resist change. In this episode of the Gartner CFO Podcast, we talk to senior director of research Emily Connelly about how to effectively lead a finance org restructuring.

Reduced profitability is quickly becoming the new reality for CFOs. Moreover, the key areas where costs are rising most, such as digital transformation, are the same areas CEOs need financial leaders to prioritize investments and drive growth. Gartner VP of Research Dennis Gannon offers CFOs four critical trends and actions to successfully address these cost pressures and accurately forecast the approaching impacts on their organizations.

Gartner VP of Research Dennis Gannon works with research teams to address the shared challenges of CFOs and other finance leaders by bringing that research to life in one-on-one and group interactions with Gartner clients. Dennis is a regular presenter and keynote speaker at Gartner conferences and facilitates dozens of executive roundtables with CFOs and other finance leaders every year.