Perspectives from Controller, FP&A, CFO and Gartner: Marko Horvat

Marko Horvat has been a public accountant, Controller, head of FP&A and CFO, as well as VP in Gartner's research and advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation.

In this episode he talks: 

• Interplay IT and CISO and organizational politics (“if it runs on electricity, it’s ours”)
  CFO skillsets gap
• Real change in CFO’s Office with AI (audit pattern recognition to forecasting)
• Last mile transformation in finance 
• Mindset, skillset, toolset transformation 
• Treating forecast as in perpetual beta 
• The power of the subtotal function 

Recommended books:

There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction