5 Key Skills a Modern CFO Needs

It is a well-known fact that the role of the CFO is changing. The economic downturn put finance teams at the forefront as they helped organisations to survive. The traditional CFO has had to strengthen their skillset and extend their knowledge outside of the finance department to become more strategic and help organisations succeed and grow.

We proudly hosted our 2014 Client Conference last week at DoubleTree Hilton, Tower of London. The day was packed with a range of informative presentations and sessions from the Eclipse team and our strategic partners, including Infor, Proactis, phiLight Software International, Professional Advantage, v1, systems@work and CFMS.

As technology rapidly progresses it is inevitable that companies find themselves in possession of legacy accounting systems (often dormant) with more than a decade’s worth of transactional data stored within them. Some of these systems exist as a result of a “technological” upgrade, whilst others are collected as a by-product of an acquisition or merger.