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Kerrie Parker FCPA, CFO at Deakin University, added a certificate in IT to her finance toolkit to better understand the whole of business.

To become a CFO, you need to know so much more than numbers. In this video, Kerrie will tell you how she developed her skills to become a CFO and how you can develop your skills, too.

Parker’s advice includes broadening your skills with cross-functional projects or secondments, as well as complementing that learning with formal training.

She tells INTHEBLACK magazine:

"My first CFO role had a broader remit to manage both finance and IT. Not having an IT background, I felt I owed it to the team to understand something about their world, the expertise they needed to contribute and even their jargon, so I completed a graduate certificate in IT.

I am a believer in the benefit of further studies or new experiences, and I am the type to put my hand up for any opportunity around me. I highly recommend gaining experience outside the standard CFO stream to expand your skills and capabilities. This can involve working across other disciplines, often in projects, sales, marketing, procurement or change programs.

I’d also suggest seeking secondment or temporary assignment into other areas.

It is important to keep yourself current in your discipline, but also the markets you are working in. I think you understand the DNA of your organisation more when you understand how it operates as a whole – not just your part of the puzzle."

Want to read more? The full article is in INTHEBLACK magazine: https://intheblack.cpaaustralia.com.a...

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