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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 changes to include long-term performance-driver, all-knowing technology expert and full-company strategic guide, more and more accounting leaders are left overwhelmed. Join us as we talk to CFOs, Controllers and other industry veterans who share their expertise on how to streamline accounting processes, create established efficiency and move to a data-driven model, allowing you to tackle what matters.
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- 4 days ago20 min
General-Purpose AI Agents Are Not Built for High-Stakes Finance
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 for high-stakes financial operations. Drawing on more than two decades of engineering and product leadership at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Apptio, Jeremy explains why deploying AI agents in finance requires the same rigor as onboarding a new employee, and how BlackLine is building toward a future where agents, not just people, are the primary users of finance software.
- 1 weeks ago26 min
The Rodman Paradox: Why Your Most Valuable Employee May Not Be Your Best One
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jack McCullough, Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council, joins Megan Weis to explore the Rodman Paradox, the idea that a company's most valuable employee may not be its best-performing one, but the one whose irreplaceable skill set keeps the organization running. Drawing on decades of experience as a CFO, CEO, and board advisor, Jack shares how leaders can identify, reward, and retain the quiet specialists that traditional org charts and performance metrics too often overlook.
- 2 weeks ago38 min
How Finance Leaders Help Mid-Sized Businesses Scale Without Stalling
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, and how finance leaders can help organizations grow with both discipline and agility. Drawing from his upbringing around his father's insurance brokerage, his public accounting career at Arthur Andersen and Grant Thornton, and fourteen years leading finance and accounting at Transwestern, a founder-led commercial real estate firm.
- 3 weeks ago30 min
Greatest Hits: How New Finance Leaders Navigate Transition and Build Confidence
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, drawing from his extensive experience mentoring finance leaders through the challenging transition from technical finance roles to strategic enterprise leadership.
- Jun 30, 202629 min
Greatest Hits: Why CFOs Must Embrace AI
In this 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 and offers actionable advice for overcoming resistance to innovation.
- Jun 23, 202621 min
Greatest Hits: Operational Finance and How CFOs Drive Performance with Devin Weil, CFO at ShipMonk
In this greatest hits episode of CFO Weekly, Devin Weil, Chief Financial Officer at ShipMonk, joins Megan Weis to explore how modern CFOs are transforming operational finance by embedding themselves directly in warehouse and logistics operations, drawing from his experience building field finance organizations at XPO and leading finance for one of the fastest-growing tech-enabled fulfillment platforms managing 1,600 employees across 12 global locations.
- Jun 16, 202620 min
Modernizing Finance Without Losing the Human Element
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jill Howe, Chief Financial Officer at Lineage Cell Therapeutics, joins Megan Weis to explore how finance leaders can modernize their organizations through technology while keeping people, flexibility, and fit-for-purpose thinking at the center of every decision drawing from more than two decades of building finance infrastructure in the San Diego biotech sector.
- Jun 9, 202625 min
Healthcare Funding, Defense Spending, and the CFO’s Role in Advocacy
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Ed Bleacher, Chief Financial Officer at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, joins Megan Weis to explore how federal funding decisions shape patient care on the ground, why the healthcare-versus-defense budget debate is more complex than a simple pie chart, and what it takes for finance leaders in healthcare to drive change, influence policy, and build the operational partnerships that will define the CFO role for the next decade.
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