As finance becomes increasingly complex, roles in finance teams must evolve with a stronger emphasis on specialization. This shift also intensifies the need for effective business partnering within finance. Finance professionals are not only required to have technical expertise but must also act as strategic advisors. There’s quite a gap to cover between the two, so join this week’s #FinanceMaster Show to learn more about strategic business partnering and how to make the jump.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have become central to business strategy and stakeholder expectations. What was once a “nice-to-have” is now a critical part of how companies operate, attract investors, and comply with increasingly stringent regulations. Organizations must go beyond annual ESG reports to demonstrate real-time accountability and transparency in this new landscape. Enter real-time ESG auditing and assurance services. Powered by advanced monitoring tools and Internet of Things (IoT) data streams, this approach enables companies to continuously validate ESG compliance, respond proactively to risks, and build trust with stakeholders. But are companies ready for this transformation? In this week’s show, we’ll explore the rise of real-time ESG auditing, how it works, its benefits, and the steps organizations can take to prepare for this seismic shift.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have always been the backbone of the global economy, driving innovation, job creation, and local economic growth. Yet, one of their most persistent challenges is managing their finances effectively. Limited resources, lack of financial expertise, and unpredictable cash flows often hinder their ability to compete with larger corporations. In 2025, a new wave of hyper-personalized financial management tools is set to change the game for SMEs. These platforms, powered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), offer tailored financial planning, budgeting, and cash flow management solutions. They are poised to empower SMEs with the insights and tools needed to thrive in a competitive marketplace. Join this week’s #FinanceMaster Show to learn more about the latest in financial management tools.
As sustainability becomes a non-negotiable business imperative, finance teams will increasingly need to account for circular economy models. This includes tracking carbon credits, measuring the financial impact of recycling efforts, and integrating sustainability metrics into financial KPIs. In this week’s #FinanceMaster we look at how finance teams can get started.
While AI has been used for automation and basic analysis in recent years, the trend in 2025 shifts towards AI as a strategic advisor. Finance teams will increasingly leverage AI for automation and strategic tasks like scenario planning, risk management, and decision-making support. Tune in to this week’s #FinanceMaster Show and get the latest insights on how AI will elevate Finance to the strategic level.
With Viktor Mendel, a strategic finance transformation expert, we will discuss the main trends for finance and accounting in 2025. Tune into this week's episode of #FinanceMaster Show to learn more about AI-driven Strategic Finance, Circular Economy Accounting, Hyper-Personalized Financial Management Tools for SMEs, Real-Time ESG Auditing and Assurance Services, and the Evolution of Finance Roles. With us as your guide, we’ll lead you safely into 2025 to accelerate your performance and career.
If you invest in stock, you would know that most of a company’s value is based on future expectations of the company. All you need to do is not disappoint these expectations. However, how do you influence the expectations and ensure you don’t disappoint? We will discuss your company’s future expectations as the fourth and final driver of shareholder value creation in this week's episode of #FinanceMaster
No one cares about the company’s balance sheet but Finance. That’s a shame because all value creation in a company passes through the balance sheet before it is distributed to company shareholders. That’s why we also need to bring this to the attention of decision makers. We should ensure our assets are highly utilized, that we collect our money and pay our bills efficiently, and that we have the optional funding structure. In this week’s episode of the #FinanceMaster Show, we will show you how you can drive asset efficiency and create value through your balance sheet.
The answer is “No one!” Sure, finance professionals don’t always execute cost savings programs, but they’re often tasked with finding efficiencies, facilitating decision-making, and following up to see if savings are realized. Further, they conduct benchmarking and spread good ideas across the company. Join the next episode of the #FinanceMaster
Who’s in charge of growth in your company? Most would probably say it’s the Chief Commercial Officer (or similar position). No one would argue that Finance holds this responsibility. That’s entirely fair. However, it shouldn’t stop finance professionals from being part of the growth conversation. In fact, we would argue that Finance plays a critical role in driving growth. This week’s show will show you how Finance can drive growth.
Is the finance function a cost center or a value driver? This is a fundamental question with a complex answer. If you ask a random person in a company, they would like to say, “cost center,” and that has been the stereotype for ages. However, for the past twenty years, there’s been a movement to try and create a different narrative. In this first episode in a new series about how finance professionals can drive value creation we discuss this new narrative. Join us to learn more about how to drive value creation through our practical approaches and experiences. Will we see you there?
Think ten years into the future. What will it be like to work in the finance function? There are no guarantees, but it will likely be different from today. How can we recognize these changes? That’s the tricky question we set out to answer in this week’s show. It’s the final episode in our Finance 2035 series, where we have predicted the future of the finance function in 2035. In this week's episode, we talk about the culture of the finance function in 2035.
What happens when artificial intelligence can autonomously manage the finance function? Will it be the end of the finance professional as we know it? The answer is “Yes!”. That’s probably scary to some, but it may not be as bad as you think. In this week’s #FinanceMaster Show we break it down for you. What’s important to the younger part of the workforce today? Making an impact. Do most finance professionals feel like they’re making a difference today? Too often, that’s not the case. Instead, they feel overwhelmed by busy work and barely have time to complete their finance processes. Having time to spend with business leaders? That’s slim to none. There’s a big opportunity to change things around so join the show and take part in the discussion…
No one can predict what technology will be available in 2035. The best way to make such a prediction is to start with what’s available today and extrapolate those capabilities. Next, we can look at emerging technologies available today but not used on a large scale. Finally, we can consider technologies currently being built or imagined and guess how they could be used in the future. We will do all that in this week’s show as we explore the Finance tech stack of the future.
We can assume some basic principles will apply even further into the future. One of these is that there’s a finance function to serve a business. What the services are and how they’re delivered, though, is constantly evolving. In this week’s show we will look more closely at the finance function value chain and what service business leaders can expect to receive from finance in the future. We will outline a Service Delivery Model and then get more specific about how it will look in the future. A service delivery model outlines how a function delivers its services. It specifies process characteristics and contact points with the business. Tune in to learn more about the Finance Service Delivery Model of the future…
How does an AI-first finance function operate? This is THE key question to answer when trying to predict how the finance function will look in 2035. In this week’s show, we will start making more granular predictions to draw a concrete picture of how we see the finance function will operate in 2035. Listen to this week's #FinanceMaster Show to share your predictions and help us build a finance function for the future.
We’ve set out on the ambitious mission to predict what the finance function will look like in 2035. Part of this work is also to help you create a concrete plan to get there. In this week’s show we discuss how you could shape up a new finance transformation strategy to embark on the journey. We do this with the outset in the new vision for Finance 2035, “Think “AI first” to realize the people potential of your finance function.”. Join us on the show to start the strategizing. Will we see you there?
A lot can happen in a decade and especially with the advances within artificial intelligence it’s very exciting to look ahead. We will formulate a vision for the finance function in 2035. It will cover what a finance strategy should include, a new operating and service delivery model, the technology landscape, a capability deep-dive, and a re-imagined culture. In this week’s episode of the #FinanceMaster, we will review everything at a glance as we prepare to deep-dive into each element over the coming weeks
We're almost halfway into the 2020 decade and it's time for a status of the predictions made by McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, and others about the finance function at the beginning of the decade. This is the first show in our new series "Finance 2035" where we make our predictions of what Finance will look like ten years from now. Are we making enough progress or do we need to pick up the pace? What barriers are we facing to realize the predictions and what can we learn from these predictions to look further into the future?
It’s easy to predict what work needs to be done in the finance function. We can just look at the annual wheel. It includes annual reporting, month-end close, quarterly forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning. It should prompt us to imagine life in a futuristic finance function where work is done very differently. In this final #FinanceMaster Show about the annual wheel in Finance we will therefore consider how processes in the annual wheel could be carried out in the future and what work finance professionals would be doing.