Scaling Finance Operations: The Hyper-Growth Blueprint with Dan Wheadon, Partner at Cherry Bekaert

Episode notes

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Dan Wheadon, Partner and Advisory Leader at Cherry Bekaert and leader of their CFO Advisory Practice, joins Megan Weis to explore how modernizing finance operations can unlock a company's potential, transforming the function from a back office support role into a true driver of performance, insight, and innovation. Dan draws on over twenty-five years of strategy and management consulting experience, advising C-suite executives on solving complex strategic, financial, operational, and technological challenges. He shares practical, three-step guidance for CFOs in the middle market to start small, drive continuous improvement, and prepare their organizations for rapid growth. What You'll Learn: Why the finance function must move from backwards-looking reporting to forward-looking strategic decision support. The three-step approach to modernizing finance, starting with fixing the close and building FP&A capability. How to balance digital transformation with practicality by focusing on measurable outcomes and ROI. The challenge of the CFO as the data steward and the critical need for timely, accurate, and complete information.

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