CFO Insights Series: Top Skills Every Finance Leader Needs to Succeed

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As a finance leader, because of the accelerated pace of change and ongoing advancements in technology in today’s business world, you can’t afford to rely on yesterday’s job skills. No matter where you are in your career, it’s crucial to start preparing now for the future by augmenting your existing job skills with additional hard and soft skills.

Drawing on insights from recent SAP Concur CFO Roundtables, we discover six essential skills every modern finance leader needs to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

“Macroeconomic changes continue to drive our focus and actions. Finance leaders need to reinforce with teams the need to embrace critical thinking skills and ask the right questions to differentiate and add value.” – Sonja Simon, CFO, SAP Americas

Six essential skills every modern finance leader must have:

Learning agility and a growth mindset
Strategic foresight
Digital fluency and AI readiness
Data leadership and decision modeling
Change management and leadership
Empathetic communication and influence

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