What technology mastery do you think is particularly sought-after and more prized by senior corporate finance hiring decision-makers?
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Matt,
I'm still seeing tons of Oracle and Hyperion, which makes me think there is a lot of legacy-systems demand. I get the feeling that this is not going away.
I've seen a lesser but significant amount of Dynamics GP (not NAV), SAP and similar platforms. These will become more competitive as they get credibility in the cloud.
I see quite a bit of rev-rec /
I'm also seeing very little explicit "cloud" experience; probably from the standpoint that that's really an IT problem.
Cheers,
KP
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Good insight, Keith.
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Best... Sarah
Matt,
As Keith started it is really having a sense of the broader set of options - as the
That said, it's really have a combined view of business, CIO and finance when it comes to technology - as the answer lies somewhere in the middle.
From a finance point of view, the technology is a tool in your toolkit. Back to the prior statement, the better the sense of the business you have, it makes the task of what information is needed for both accounting and business easier.
For your staff, the technology (whether single application or combined solution) needs to provide you access to or ability to utilize transactional information in different methods (e.g. accounting close and product profitability) - otherwise, it's difficult for the technology to give you any scale.
The partnership with the CIO is important to create a technology landscape that does not require you or your team to perform data reconciliation each month - so you can spend more time on delivering solid accounting or business information. When you use the 'data recon' filter, many solutions will get weeded out quickly - no matter how cool - if they don't allow for easy integration of data.
Probably the best way to learn is to sit down with different IT and software colleagues to understand both what a technology does and how the technology works.
Hope this helps give you some starter ideas.
Regards,
Mark