Alternative FD Job Description
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"Sort out all the mess."
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Being a successful Finance Director involves a lot more than the 'official' list of responsibilities on that FD Job Description.
Below is a precis of just some of the real-life, day-to-day realities a FD will have to tackle if he or she is going to be truly successful taking on the Finance function!
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Finance Director - alternative job desciption
The FD will be responsible for:
- Trying to keep a rein on that collection of double-entry deviants, ledger luvvies and management accounting misfits that make up the Finance team
- Making a note to remember that next time there's a project looking at upgrading systems or migrating to another ERP platform, Finance are involved from the start and not 2 year's down the line after a chance encounter with the IT Director in the lift.
- Explaining to the Board why the actual results bear no relationship to the numerical nonsense churned out by the Reporting team for the last 11 months
- Being resigned to the fact that if it doesn't work it ends up in Finance
- Sorting out all the mess
- Remembering that next time company morale takes a dip not to sign the Finance team up to that cretinous idea of an 'Have Your Say' staff survey
- Planning and deploying diversionary tactics to ensure the auditors are kept strictly on the audit trail
- Discovering that any opportunities to engineer a 'quick win' boost to the company's results have already been exploited by the previous encumbent
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