Finance Leadership Blog

Most finance professionals think they’re doing the right things to get promoted.

• They work hard. 
• They improve reporting. 
• They fix processes.
• They keep everything running.

And then they get ...

A lot of finance professionals assume that becoming a CFO is the natural next step in their career.

You move from Finance Manager to Financial Controller, then Finance Director… and then CFO.

But in...

If you’re working in finance at a startup and aiming for a CFO role, the gap isn’t technical.

Most people already have the accounting, reporting, and modelling skills.

The real shift is how you thin...

A lot of finance professionals have the same long-term goal: becoming a CFO.

But the path to becoming a CFO in a startup or scaleup looks very different to the traditional corporate route. In large c...

One of the quickest ways for a finance leader to lose credibility in a startup or scaleup is poor data quality.

The tricky part is that the numbers usually exist. There are reports. There’s a P&L. Th...

One of the most common and least talked about problems new CFOs or finance leaders face in startups and scaleups is this:

You arrive too late.

Not late in your career. Late in the company’s journey....

Starting a new finance role is one of the highest risk points in your career. Not because you are incapable, but because expectations are often unclear, timeframes are unrealistic, and you are expecte...

If you’re leading finance in a startup or scale-up, chances are you’ve been asked to set quarterly KPIs for your team.

But let’s be honest, this isn’t easy when you’re not driving revenue or churning...

The startup world doesn’t pause for summer holidays, but your energy probably did.

September always feels like a reset. The kids are back at school, inboxes are overflowing, and you’re staring down a...

It’s summer (in the Northern Hemisphere).

Your out-of-office is tempting you. But if you’re a solo finance lead in a startup, juggling reporting, payroll, board prep, and a few surprise “quick questi...

When you're the Finance Manager, Head of Finance, or even a newly promoted Finance Director in a startup, there’s a high chance you’re reporting into a founder with little finance experience and you'r...