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Collaborative Budgeting with Brian Weisberg, Head of Finance and Business Operations at Tidelift

The Role Forward: A Strategic Finance Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of a High Capacity Forward-Thinking Finance Leader in the Planning Process

When people think finance, they think scorekeepers, but you seem to have a really intimate knowledge of how the business actually works and operates. I've worked at organizations with a CEO who's very involved in sitting right my side of the spreadsheet and we're working on it together. And I feel like we're just like trying to run in quicksand. Like it's terrible use of the CEO's time. So if you can find someone that's a finance person like myself, it was comfortable kind of traversing the organization and really trying to understand what's going on with what drives the business. That is tremendously more valuable than your your model is not just a spreadsheet that you cranked

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