Alternative FD Job Description

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"Sort out all the mess."

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!

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