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CFO Weekly

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Looking to build an efficient accounting team so you can focus on strategy and business growth?
As the role of the CFO evolves to include long-term performance leadership, technology expertise, and company-wide strategic guidance, more and more accounting leaders are feeling overwhelmed.
Join us as we talk to CFOs, Controllers, and other industry veterans who share their expertise on how to streamline accounting processes, create greater efficiency, and move to a data-driven model, allowing you to focus on what matters.
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327
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Weekly
Typical length
26 min
On air since
2020
Latest episode
16 hours ago

Episodes

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  1. Greatest Hits: Building Leadership Through Community

    Episode 307

    Show notes

    Strong CFO leadership isn't built on financial expertise alone. It also requires the ability to navigate uncertainty, influence people across the organisation, and learn from others who understand the pressures of the role.

    In this Greatest Hits episode of CFO Weekly, Megan Weis speaks with Mark Dempster, Founder at The Circle by Founders Circle Capital, about the importance of peer communities for CFOs navigating the demands of pre-IPO growth.

    Drawing on his experience at the intersection of leadership, brand, and venture capital, including his time as a marketing partner at Sequoia Capital, Mark shares how The Circle evolved from informal CFO dinner conversations into a structured peer community supporting finance leaders at venture-backed companies.

    He explores why CFOs need trusted spaces to share challenges, embrace vulnerability, and develop the leadership capabilities required to take their companies through the IPO journey.

    Whether you're preparing for an IPO or looking to become a more effective finance leader, this episode offers valuable perspectives on building confidence, strengthening relationships, and scaling yourself alongside your company.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why CFOs in the IPO tractor beam face constant reinterviewing by their boards
    • How vulnerability and peer support combat the isolation inherent in the CFO role
    • The critical shift from individual contributor to leader and storyteller
    • Why the CFO role has the highest unfilled recruiting rate in venture capital
    • How community infrastructure helps CFOs avoid replacement at the IPO threshold
    • The power of lived experience over data alone in high-stakes decision-making

    Learn more about Mark:

    • Mark Dempster onLinkedIn
    • The Circle by Founders Circle CapitalWebsite

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

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    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    30 min
  2. Where Automation Works and Human Judgment Still Matters

    Episode 306

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Amy Wang, Chief Financial Officer at Procurify, joins Megan Weis to explore what AI in finance actually looks like inside mid-market companies, where automation genuinely adds value, and where human judgment still matters most. Amy brings a career that spans PwC, Solium, Morgan Stanley, Userful, and now Procurify, an AI-enhanced spend management platform built for mid-market organizations.

    With firsthand experience across audit, high-growth SaaS, fintech, and capital markets, Amy has seen finance from the auditor's chair, the scale-up, the enterprise, and now the CFO seat, where she oversees finance, people operations, legal, IT, and procurement. She shares why mid-market teams are moving faster on AI than their enterprise counterparts, how to separate real solutions from flashy demos, and why the CFO of the next two to three years will look less like a record keeper and more like a value architect.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why mid-market companies are adopting AI faster than the enterprise
    • How to separate genuinely useful AI applications from vendor hype
    • Where humans must stay in the loop, and where AI earns its place
    • How AI is changing entry-level finance roles and how learning must adapt
    • A simple three-question test for evaluating any new AI tool
    • How AI is shifting finance from gatekeeper to strategic partner
    • What the CFO role will look like over the next two to three years

    Learn More About Amy:

    • Amy Wang onLinkedIn
    • ProcurifyWebsite

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

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    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    25 min
  3. Where AI Delivers for Finance Teams and Where Fundamentals Still Win

    Episode 305

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, James Vanreusel, Founder and CEO of Vanreusel Ventures, joins Megan Weis to explore where AI is genuinely improving forecasting, reporting, and analysis, where the hype gets ahead of reality, and why fundamentals like pricing, margins, liquidity, and unit economics still matter more than many founders want to admit. James brings a career that spans Wall Street institutional equity sales, microfinance, and more than a decade of fractional CFO work with VC-backed companies and international nonprofits.

    Having served as the full-time CFO of a microfinance bank in Samoa before moving to San Francisco to launch his corporate finance consultancy, James has seen financial sophistication from both ends of the spectrum. He shares how his team uses AI to do higher quality work faster, why experienced judgment is still the filter that matters most, and how to tell a tool that solves a real business problem from the latest shiny object. He also explains why every financial decision comes back to return on investment and what the CFO role will look like over the next three to five years.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • Where AI is creating better outcomes in modeling, the accounting close, and forecasting
    • Why AI can create a false sense of precision without experienced human review
    • How to evaluate AI-native finance tools against established software that is adding AI
    • Why pricing, gross margin, and unit economics still matter in an AI-heavy environment
    • How to find low-hanging fruit when an income statement has become bloated
    • Why the CFO role will stay strategic and cross-functional

    Learn More About James:

    • James Vanreusel onLinkedIn
    • Vanreusel VenturesWebsite

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
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    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    21 min
  4. Agentic AI Starts with the Process, Not the Technology

    Episode 304

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Courtney Stoner, who has held executive leadership roles at iron mountain, ge vernova, and ge Aerospace joins to discuss The CFOs playbook for Agentic AI & ROI.

    With a foundation built as an operational forecast analyst and a three-year stint as a technical auditor, Courtney has spent her career connecting how a business runs with how it creates financial value. She shares a practical framework for evaluating AI use cases, explains where agentic AI can run on its own and where human judgment must stay in the loop, and unpacks the metrics CFOs should track beyond hours saved. She also covers how to redesign controls for an agentic world, how to keep AI from becoming a black box, and why a messy data foundation is no reason to sit on the sidelines.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why process re-engineering must come before any technology decision
    • How to evaluate AI use cases with a diagnostic that ties directly to revenue or EBITDA
    • Where agentic AI works best in shared services, and where to stay cautious
    • The ROI metrics that matter beyond hours saved and headcount avoided
    • How to design controls, audit plans, and oversight for AI agents
    • How to start with AI when your data foundation isn't perfect
    • Why every finance leader needs to become a student again

    Learn More About Courtney:

    • Courtney Stoner on LinkedIn
    • Iron Mountain Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
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    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    24 min
  5. Why Professional Judgment Is the Accountant’s Greatest Differentiator

    Episode 303

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Kerrie Jones, Financial Controller at Peak Living, joins Megan Weis to explore why accountants remain among the most trusted business advisors and how finance leaders build credibility through sound judgment rather than technical expertise alone. Kerrie brings a career built around strengthening financial controls, improving reporting, and leading high-performing accounting teams through periods of growth and change.

    With more than eight years of experience hiring and developing accountants, and having advised organizations on accounting structure and process improvement, Kerrie shares how she turned the lesson “compliance asks whether we followed the steps, judgment asks whether the result makes sense” into a leadership philosophy. She also serves on the board of a nonprofit supporting adults with multiple disabilities, where financial stewardship and governance are equally critical. She unpacks how to build confidence in newer accountants, why AI can inform decisions but never own them, how to communicate an unpopular judgment call, and why the human element is becoming even more valuable in an AI-enabled world.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • The difference between compliance and professional judgment, and why it matters
    • How to help new accountants move beyond checklists and trust their own analysis
    • Which aspects of judgment will remain uniquely human as AI becomes more capable
    • How finance leaders can use AI as a decision support tool without surrendering accountability
    • How to communicate a difficult judgment call when stakeholders are likely to disagree
    • What behaviors consistently build trust between finance leaders and the rest of the organization
    • How the CFO and controller roles will evolve over the next three to five years

    Learn More About Kerrie:

    • Kerrie Jones on LinkedIn
    • Peak Living Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
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    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    21 min
  6. The CFO as Decision Architect

    Episode 302

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Shirley Shu-Hurley, Chief Financial Officer at Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART), joins Megan Weis to explore why the finance seat is evolving from scorekeeper and controller into what Shirley calls the “decision architect” of the organization. Shirley is a finance leader with two decades of experience helping organizations navigate complexity, transformation, and growth. With credentials as a CPA, CFA, and MBA, she has built her career at the intersection of finance, operations, governance, and strategy, partnering with executive teams and boards to build scalable financial infrastructure, strengthen decision making, and create long-term value.

    Drawing on a career that spans the energy sector, an entrepreneurship-focused MBA at Durham University Business School, a fractional CFO and strategy consulting practice, and finance leadership at a global donor-advised fund foundation, Shirley shares how she now applies that experience to public finance at HART. She unpacks her framework for evaluating organizational capacity, why she reframes finance's role from gatekeeper to system thinker, how governance can accelerate rather than slow decision making, and what mindset the CFO of the future will need.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why the CFO role is evolving from financial operator to decision architect

    • How to evaluate an organization's true capacity to execute its strategy

    • A framework for classifying constraints as hard, policy, or preference

    • Why an action-biased mindset produces better decisions under uncertainty

    • How grassroots AI literacy programs build trust and adoption across teams

    • Why system thinking will separate strategic CFOs from financial operators

    • What the CFO role will look like in the next two to three years

    Learn More About Shirley:

    • Shirley Shu-Hurley on LinkedIn

    • Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART) Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
    • Follow on Spotify

    Instructions on following, rating, and reviewing CFO Weekly are here.

    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    29 min
  7. Why CPAs Make Great CFOs

    Episode 301

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, John Wise, Director of Finance and Accounting at The Armstrong Company, joins Megan Weis to unpack how the CPA designation can become a launchpad for strategic business leadership rather than a lifelong ticket to the back office. John brings a career built across Fortune 500 rotational programs, regional public accounting, and FP&A leadership before landing at The Armstrong Company, a family-held, fourth-generation moving and storage business with roots stretching back to 1957.

    With hands-on experience in lease accounting, financial reporting, M&A due diligence, and finance modernization, John shares how he approaches transforming a decentralized, founder-led finance function into a scalable, data-driven operation. He unpacks the cultural growing pains that hit middle-market companies as they scale, the warning signs that a process has been outgrown, and why he believes the traditional linear path from accountant to controller to CFO is being disrupted by FP&A and cross-functional business partnership.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why the CPA designation opens doors far beyond traditional accounting and auditing
    • The biggest cultural and operational growing pains middle-market companies face as they scale
    • How to know when a finance process has been outgrown and needs to change
    • Where to start when transforming or centralizing a finance function
    • How a CPA background helps uncover risks that others miss during M&A due diligence
    • How to balance strong financial controls with the flexibility middle-market businesses need to grow
    • How the CFO and CAO roles will evolve over the next three to five years

    Learn More About John:

    • John Wise on LinkedIn
    • The Armstrong Company Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
    • Follow on Spotify

    Instructions on following, rating, and reviewing CFO Weekly are here.

    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    30 min
  8. How CFOs Use AI and Real-Time Data to Make Faster Decisions

    Episode 300

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Mark Gaudiosi, Chief Financial Officer at Burro, joins Megan Weis to unpack why AI adoption in finance comes down to one deceptively simple question: what decision does this actually change? Mark brings more than twenty-five years of finance leadership across technology, health care, retail, and high-growth companies, including scaling Gopuff's finance function through 1,200% revenue growth and a 25x valuation increase, guiding Medical Guardian through a $200 million acquisition, and now sitting at the intersection of finance, robotics, and AI at Burro, an outdoor autonomous robotics company tackling the $2 trillion global labor shortage.

    With a career that spans a startup's full life cycle, from IPO to bankruptcy at Zany Brainy, to hyper-scaling a delivery unicorn, to now translating terabytes of robot telemetry into financial decisions, Mark shares how CFOs can separate genuine AI value from hype, why the finance function is inheriting data ownership from IT, and how disciplined intuition, not just dashboards, still drives the best calls in the room.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why AI adoption in finance is genuinely different this time, not just another hype cycle
    • The single litmus test Mark uses to evaluate every AI investment
    • Why data ownership is shifting from IT to finance, and what that means for the CFO
    • How operational data from autonomous robots becomes a financial metric
    • Why intuition and data need to coexist, not compete, in a data-driven culture
    • How the CFO role evolves from historian to copilot over the next five to ten years

    Learn More About Mark:

    • Mark Gaudiosi on LinkedIn
    • Burro Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
    • Follow on Spotify

    Instructions on following, rating, and reviewing CFO Weekly are here.

    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    28 min
  9. Why AI ROI Has Become a CFO Problem, Not a Tech Problem

    Episode 299

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Mike DePrisco, President and CEO of IMA (Institute of Management Accountants), joins Megan Weese to explore why AI cost and ROI are increasingly becoming CFO problems, not just technology problems, and how finance leaders can evaluate AI investments, manage pricing uncertainty, and tie adoption to measurable business value. Mike brings more than thirty years of executive leadership experience across professional associations, certification, and higher education, including a decade of leadership roles at the Project Management Institute (PMI), before joining IMA in 2023.

    Drawing on IMA's own research into AI adoption among finance professionals, Mike shares why so many CFOs still don't trust their own data, how AI amplifies a broken process instead of fixing it, and why starting small and proving value beats waiting for a perfect deployment. He also unpacks the governance structures forward-thinking finance teams are building around AI and explains how the CFO role is expanding well beyond the traditional scorekeeper function.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why evaluating AI cost and ROI is uniquely challenging compared to other technology investments
    • How finance's AI adoption has accelerated from early skepticism to mainstream deployment
    • Why 37% of CFOs say they don't trust their own data, and what that means for AI readiness
    • How to measure the real business value of AI beyond productivity and vendor promises
    • Why AI governance belongs in the boardroom and in a dedicated AI center of excellence
    • How the CFO role is evolving into a broader enterprise leadership function over the next three to five years

    Learn More About Mike:

    • Mike DePrisco on LinkedIn
    • IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
    • Follow on Spotify

    Instructions on following, rating, and reviewing CFO Weekly are here.

    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    27 min
  10. Why AI-Native Finance Beats Bolted-On AI Tools

    Episode 298

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Bojan Belejkovski, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Voltava, joins Megan Weis to unpack what it actually takes to build an AI-native finance operating model, and why bolting AI tools onto broken processes is the fastest way to fail. Bojan brings a rare, non-linear path into finance, starting with a law degree and a master's in international law before an operations management course at Wharton pulled him toward treasury, M&A integration, and enterprise finance transformation.

    Bojan has led multibillion-dollar restructurings, post-merger integrations, and ERP transformations including SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion, and Kyriba. He is the author of Treasury 2.0: Future-Proofing Finance with AI, built around his own D.A.S.H. framework: Digitize, Automate, Streamline, Harness AI. In this conversation, he explains why finance's real opportunity with AI isn't speed, it's turning finance from a backward-looking reporting function into a forward-looking decision engine, and why the failures of AI adoption are far quieter and more expensive than the failures of a bad ERP rollout.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why an AI-native finance operating model is built differently than one with AI tools bolted on
    • The D.A.S.H. framework for digitizing, automating, streamlining, and harnessing AI in treasury
    • Where AI genuinely improves forecasting and scenario planning, and where human judgment must stay in control
    • What separates organizations that truly operationalize AI from those stuck running endless pilots
    • Why AI failures in finance are silent, and how strong data discipline prevents them
    • How AI is reshaping treasury's role in enterprise decision-making
    • The skills finance leaders will need most over the next three to five years

    Learn More About Bojan:

    • Bojan Belejkovski on LinkedIn
    • Treasury 2.0: Future-Proofing Finance with AI (Book)
    • Voltava Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

    If you enjoyed this episode, then please either:

    • Follow, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts
    • Follow on Spotify

    Instructions on following, rating, and reviewing CFO Weekly are here.

    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

    If you are interested in joining CFO Weekly as a guest, please complete this form: fame.so/cfo-guest

    CFO Weekly is handcrafted by our friends over at: https://www.fame.so/

    26 min
  11. Building a Scalable Finance Function

    Episode 297

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jessica Trimmer, Senior Director of Revenue and Transformation at Intapp, joins Megan Weis to explore what it really takes to build a finance organization that scales. Jessica is a finance transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations build scalable finance operations across revenue, lead to cash, and record to report processes. Throughout her career, she has led enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, modernized finance systems, strengthened governance, and helped high-growth organizations scale while maintaining strong controls and compliance.

    Jessica unpacks why the biggest constraint to scaling finance is rarely headcount and almost always the operating model itself. She shares the early warning signs that a finance organization has outgrown its current design, the right sequence for tackling people, process, technology, and governance, and why she would refuse to build an organization where people are the integration layer between systems. She also explores how finance can build compliance into the business rather than bolt it on, and what the best CFOs and Chief Accounting Officers will spend their time on as automation takes over the transactional work.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why the biggest constraint to scaling finance is the operating model, not headcount
    • The early warning signs that a finance organization has outgrown its current design
    • The right sequence for tackling people, process, technology, and governance
    • Why automating a broken process just makes the wrong process faster
    • How to build compliance into the business instead of bolting it on
    • What the best CFOs and Chief Accounting Officers will spend their time on next

    Learn More About Jessica:

    • Jessica Trimmer on LinkedIn
    • Intapp Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    23 min
  12. Why the Best CFOs Think Like CEOs

    Episode 296

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Abir Syed, Co-Founder of UpCounting, joins Megan Weis to explore why the best finance leaders stop producing numbers and start driving decisions. A CPA by training, Abir built his career at the intersection of finance and marketing, helping direct-to-consumer brands balance profitable growth with smart investment.

    With hands-on experience spanning Big Four auditing, startup finance, hands-on ecommerce operations, and paid media, Abir shares how he learned that handing founders a set of numbers is never enough. He unpacks why founders consistently lack clarity rather than data, why marketing is often the single constraint holding a growing brand back, why unit economics gets overlooked even by sophisticated operators, and why the CFO of the future needs to think and act like a CEO.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why giving founders raw financial data isn't enough, and how finance leaders must bridge the gap to decision-making
    • How Abir's unconventional path from Big Four auditor to hands-on ecommerce operator shaped his approach to finance
    • Why finance and marketing teams talk past each other, and how “peak cohort profit” gives both sides a shared language
    • Why marketing, not cash flow or profitability, is often a growing brand's real constraint
    • Why unit economics is the most overlooked metric in ecommerce finance
    • How the CFO role is evolving toward CEO-level responsibility as AI automates the mundane work of finance

    Learn More About Abir:

    • Abir Syed onLinkedIn
    • UpCountingWebsite

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    24 min
  13. How to Keep Finance Teams Engaged During a Merger

    Episode 295

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Rick Hasselman, Chief Financial Officer at Clari + Salesloft, joins Megan Weis to explore what it takes to lead a finance organization through a major merger, why collaboration between finance and go-to-market teams has become essential for scaling modern SaaS businesses, and how an unconventional path through mergers and acquisitions can prepare leaders for today's CFO role. Rick brings more than thirty years of finance and operational leadership experience with a career that spans audit and transaction services at PwC, mergers and acquisitions at Google, and CFO leadership at high-growth technology companies including Sumo Logic, Podium, and Expel.

    With hands-on experience guiding teams through system integrations, cross-functional alignment, and the emotional uncertainty that comes with organizational change, Rick shares how he keeps finance teams focused and engaged during a merger, why guardrails matter more than rigid rules when balancing growth and risk, and why the biggest lesson from every deal he has closed is that integration always takes longer than the plan says it will. He also unpacks how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape the relationship between finance and revenue teams, and what it means for a CFO to become an orchestrator of AI agents rather than just a steward of the numbers.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why finance leaders need to communicate the strategic "why" behind a merger, not just the timeline
    • How framing integration work as a career opportunity keeps finance teams engaged through uncertainty
    • Why finance and sales must operate as true partners who "all own the number"
    • How to set guardrails that let a business move fast without losing financial discipline
    • Why every integration takes longer than planned and how to protect morale along the way
    • How AI and agents are turning the CFO into an orchestrator of finance workflows

    Learn More About Rick:

    • Rick Hasselman on LinkedIn
    • Clari + Salesloft Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    35 min
  14. The Skills That Separate CFOs from Finance Experts

    Episode 294

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Wassia Kamon, Chief Financial Officer at ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Georgia's largest nonprofit community development financial institution, joins Megan Weis to explore the journey from controller or FP&A leader to modern CFO. Wassia is an award-winning finance leader with more than fifteen years of experience across manufacturing, technology, pharmaceuticals, and the nonprofit sector. Her career has spanned both accounting and FP&A, giving her a unique perspective on what it really takes to grow into the modern CFO role.

    Wassia shares the experiences that prepared her for the transition, from serving as interim CFO to joining a nonprofit board to working with an executive coach. She unpacks the very different mindset shifts required of controllers and FP&A leaders as they step into the CFO seat, why building a personal board of directors is essential, and why systems, governance, and team building matter just as much as technical expertise. She also discusses how she thinks about AI as a tool rather than a replacement, how she avoids burnout while leading at a high level, and where she sees the CFO role heading over the next three to five years.

    What You'll Learn:

    • The experiences that best prepare finance professionals for the CFO seat

    • The mindset shift required when moving from controller or FP&A leader to CFO

    • How to build a personal board of directors that rounds out your blind spots

    • Why cross-functional relationships should start on day one, not after the promotion

    • Why systems, governance, and team building matter as much as technical expertise

    • How to use AI as a tool without losing sight of leadership and people

    • Habits that help CFOs sustain performance and avoid burnout

    • Where the CFO role is headed over the next three to five years

    Learn More About Wassia:

    • Wassia Kamon on LinkedIn

    • ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Website

    • Wassia Kamon's Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    21 min
  15. General-Purpose AI Agents Are Not Built for High-Stakes Finance

    Episode 293

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer at BlackLine, joins Megan Weis to explore why general-purpose AI agents are not automatically safe enough for high-stakes financial operations. Jeremy brings more than two decades of software engineering, product management, and enterprise technology leadership, including senior roles at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Apptio.

    At BlackLine, Jeremy oversees the company's global technology direction, focusing on connected data, AI-powered platforms, and what BlackLine calls Agentic Financial Operations, where digital AI workforces operate alongside finance teams with explainability, governance, and human oversight built in. Jeremy unpacks why deploying AI agents is closer to onboarding a new employee than installing new software, why finance demands a higher bar for auditability than almost any other business function, and how BlackLine is reimagining its own platform for a future where the primary users of finance software may be agents rather than people.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why AI agents should be treated as workforce augmentation, not traditional software
    • The real costs and risks of building AI agents in-house versus buying purpose-built solutions
    • Why explainability, governance, and human oversight are non-negotiable in finance
    • What full auditability and transparency actually require from an AI system
    • How finance teams are shifting from doing the work to steering teams of AI agents
    • How BlackLine is evolving its platform for a future built around agentic users

    Learn More About Jeremy:

    • Jeremy Ung on LinkedIn
    • BlackLine Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Previous guests include: Tom McDermott, CFO at Career Certified, Claire Bramley, CFO at Teradata, Chris Miles, Founder of Money Ripples, Ranil DeSilva, CFO & COO at CARE, Jordan Grumet, Financial Independence Expert & Host of Earn & Invest & William Washington, Global CFO at Baker McKenzie

    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    20 min
  16. The Rodman Paradox: Why Your Most Valuable Employee May Not Be Your Best One

    Episode 292

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jack McCullough, Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council, joins Megan Weis to unpack the Rodman Paradox: the idea that a company's most valuable employee may not be its best-performing one, but rather the person whose skill set is the most irreplaceable. Jack brings decades of experience as a CFO, CEO, board advisor, and leadership author, along with nearly two decades leading the CFO Leadership Council, one of the largest and most influential communities of senior finance executives in North America.

    Jack is the author of several acclaimed leadership books, including Secrets of Rockstar CFOs and his newest release, The Rodman Paradox. Named after legendary NBA rebounder Dennis Rodman, the paradox challenges leaders, and CFOs in particular, to look past traditional metrics and org charts to identify the quiet specialists, crisis preventers, and irreplaceable “glue” employees who keep an organization running, even when they never show up as the highest performer on paper.

    What You'll Learn:

    • What the Rodman Paradox is and why it's named after NBA legend Dennis Rodman
    • Why finance organizations are especially prone to overlooking their most irreplaceable talent
    • The leadership biases that cause executives to miss quiet specialists and “crisis preventers”
    • Why promoting your best specialist is often the biggest managerial mistake a CFO can make
    • How organizational network analysis reveals hidden influence that traditional org charts miss
    • Why AI is making the Rodman Paradox more relevant, not less, in finance today

    Learn More About Jack:

    • Jack McCullough on LinkedIn
    • The CFO Leadership Council Website
    • The Rodman Paradox onAmazon

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    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    27 min
  17. How Finance Leaders Help Mid-Sized Businesses Scale Without Stalling

    Episode 291

    Show notes

    In this episode of CFO Weekly, Mike McLain, Chief Accounting Officer at Transwestern, joins Megan Weis to explore what separates mid-sized businesses that scale successfully from those that stall out, and how finance leaders can help their organizations grow with both discipline and agility. Mike brings over two decades of experience shaped by his early exposure to the complexities of running a business, his public accounting career at Arthur Andersen and Grant Thornton working with emerging and middle-market companies, and his fourteen years leading finance and accounting at Transwestern, a founder-led commercial real estate firm that has grown revenue 40 to 50 percent higher since he joined.

    Mike shares the warning signs that tell a company it has outgrown its systems, the universal stall points that limit growth across every industry, and why cash flow discipline, servant leadership, and a well-run data governance process separate companies that navigate growth successfully from those that struggle. He also unpacks why the finance function of the future must evolve from reporting on what happened to solving problems before they occur.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why managing complexity, not just growing revenue, is what truly separates successful mid-sized businesses from those that stall
    • The universal stall points every growing company eventually hits, and how to plan around them
    • How to choose between equity and debt capital depending on your growth stage
    • The early warning signs that a company has outgrown its systems and processes
    • Why cash flow discipline and a rolling cash forecast are essential to funding growth responsibly
    • How servant leadership helps companies navigate downturns without losing trust
    • Why finance must evolve from a reporting function into a strategic storyteller and problem solver

    Learn More About Mike:

    • Mike McLain on LinkedIn
    • Transwestern Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    38 min
  18. Greatest Hits: How New Finance Leaders Navigate Transition and Build Confidence

    Show notes

    In this greatest hits episode of CFO Weekly, Kevin Appleby, Head of Partnerships at GrowCFO and host of the GrowCFO Show podcast, joins Megan Weis to explore how new CFOs can successfully navigate their critical first hundred days in the role. Kevin brings extensive experience mentoring finance leaders through one of the most challenging career transitions, drawing from his years supporting aspiring and newly appointed CFOs as they shift from technical finance roles to strategic enterprise leadership.

    With his deep background in management consulting and finance education, Kevin shares how new CFOs can overcome imposter syndrome, build effective peer networks, and establish credibility while managing the overwhelming demands of business-as-usual operations. Currently serving as Head of Partnerships at GrowCFO, Kevin oversees programs that help finance professionals develop the strategic thinking, leadership presence, and operational expertise needed to thrive in the CFO seat.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why the transition from finance director to CFO represents such a significant cultural shift
    • How to structure your first hundred days for maximum impact and credibility
    • Strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome and building genuine confidence
    • The importance of peer networks and mentorship for isolated finance leaders
    • How to balance strategic planning with immediate operational demands
    • Why filling the "blank sheet of paper" on team culture matters from day one

    Learn more about Kevin:

    • Kevin Appleby on LinkedIn
    • GrowCFO Website

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    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    30 min
  19. Greatest Hits: Why CFOs Must Embrace AI

    Show notes

    In this greatest hits episode of CFO Weekly, Keith Causey, SVP of Cloud ERP Transformation at Oracle, joins Megan Weis to discuss the transformative impact of AI on finance, how AI-driven tools are enabling touchless operations, and the role of CFOs as change agents, while offering actionable advice for overcoming resistance to innovation.

    Keith is a strategic and highly accomplished senior executive specializing in cloud technologies and digital transformation within the finance sector. With a career spanning over 35 years, Keith has held pivotal roles in various industries, including his tenure as Chief Accounting Officer at Caesars Entertainment, where he led a groundbreaking transition to cloud ERP systems, becoming the first in the industry to do so.

    In this episode, we discuss:

    • The significant role of cloud technology in modern finance
    • How AI is revolutionizing traditional finance functions
    • Cultural challenges that organizations face when implementing AI
    • The future of finance and exciting trends in AI

    Learn more about Keith:

    • Keith Causey on LinkedIn
    • Oracle Website

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    • Personiv's Website
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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    30 min
  20. Greatest Hits: Operational Finance and How CFOs Drive Performance with Devin Weil, CFO at ShipMonk

    Show notes

    In this greatest hits episode of CFO Weekly, Devin Weil, Chief Financial Officer at ShipMonk, joins Megan Weis to explore how modern CFOs are revolutionizing operational finance by becoming true partners to warehouse and logistics operations. Devin brings extensive experience as a finance leader across organizations like XPO and Carrier, where he built his career inside some of the most operationally complex environments in the supply chain and logistics space.

    With his deep background spanning corporate finance, performance improvement, and network operations, Devin shares how finance teams can leverage data to diagnose performance issues, drive meaningful KPIs, and build field finance organizations that sit alongside operators. Currently serving as CFO of ShipMonk, Devin oversees finance for one of the fastest-growing tech-enabled fulfillment platforms in the world, managing 12 warehouses and 1,600 employees across the globe.

    What You'll Learn:

    • Why CFOs must embed finance resources directly in operations for maximum impact
    • How to balance top-down targets with bottoms-up planning to drive operator buy-in
    • The critical role of granular unit economics in high-volume logistics businesses
    • Strategies for rapid performance intervention without becoming a bottleneck
    • How robust data infrastructure enables both visibility and speed
    • The evolution of the CFO role from financial oversight to operational partnership

    Learn more about Devin:

    • Devin Weil on LinkedIn
    • ShipMonk Website

    Episode resources:

    • Personiv's Website
    • Personiv on LinkedIn
    • Personiv on Facebook
    • Personiv on Twitter

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    Check out some of our most recent episodes:

    • Driving Value Beyond Finance with Tom McDermott
    • Why CFOs Are the Chief Everything Officers with Claire Bramley
    • Why Traditional Financial Advice Fails and What To Do Instead with Chris Miles
    • NGO Finance Secrets: CARE’s $900M Strategy with Ranil DeSilva
    • What Lights You Up? with Jordan Grumet
    • Become a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with William Washington

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    22 min

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