119. CFO Stories: Finance’s hierarchy of needs with Darren Woods

Back due to popular demand, Darren Woods, CFO at Freedom Fibre sits down with Hannah Munro to discuss useful tips and advice for both brand new and new into role CFOs! 


Together they discuss the influence you have as a CFO that is new into role, how soon is too soon to start that financial transformation journey and how to prioritise your transformation efforts. 

Also covered in this session:
  • Darren’s ambition for finance
  • What is finance’s hierarchy of needs?
  • Why you need to understand the problem you are trying to solve before you try to solve it?
  • How do you speed up your time to value as a CFO?
  • Why you need to know the 3 things that keep your CEO awake at night
  • What is the change that we’re seeing in finance teams and what does that have to do with value?
  • How do we define value?
  • How value goes beyond economic impact
  • What are the components of economic value identification?
  • Examples of the value identification conversation
  • What this means for the skills in finance
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