How to become a top financial officer

what is CFO CFO? CFO refers CFO CFO(ChiefFinancialOfficer or chief financial officer of a company. It is one of the most important and valuable top management positions in modern companies, and it is the soul who holds the nervous system (financial information) and blood system (cash resources) of an enterprise. In the operation of a large company, CFO is a role between financial market operation and internal financial management of the company. Most of the people who act as CFO have many years of experience in the financial market. In the United States, excellent CFOs have often been successful fund managers on Wall Street. The interaction between corporate wealth management and financial market, project evaluation, risk management, product research and development, strategic planning, identification and establishment of enterprise core competitiveness, and insight into the impact of information technology and e-commerce on enterprises are naturally within the scope of CFO's duties. To become a top financial officer in the industry, you must make full preparations for your future career planning and development 1 years in advance. \xd\ Stage 1: 1-5 years General position: General staff \xd\ After choosing a career direction, the most important thing is to accumulate knowledge and experience. Accounting major in university is a difficult course to learn, but no matter how well you learn it in university, you have to relearn a lot of new knowledge in practice. Because each unit's criteria are different, the system is even different. \xd\ As a newly graduated college student, my career development direction; Print out the job description of the enterprise recruitment advertisement, and compare what conditions you meet and what you lack. In addition to excluding hard and unchangeable conditions (such as height), I found that most of them can be achieved through my efforts the day after tomorrow, such as academic qualifications, English, certificates and so on. If not, take the exam and study immediately. Generally speaking, as long as you can meet his job description requirements, you will certainly be half the battle. It can be said that job advertisements have become a compass for my career development. \xd\ Accumulate practical knowledge of financial management \xd\\xd\ After choosing a career direction, the most important thing is to accumulate knowledge and experience. \xd\ Taking accounting knowledge as an example, I think the biggest difference between school and work is that no one will give you any questions in practice and give you any information. Therefore, you need to summarize yourself and refine the information collected in your work into a question. The most difficult problem is "judgment". Finance pays attention to "professional judgment". If the judgment fails, there will be deviations. The basis of judgment is all kinds of information you have obtained. However, whether it is the lack of information or the overuse of information, or the wrong interpretation of information, it will make your judgment wrong; Wrong judgment will lead to wrong accounting treatment and wrong accounting statements; Will decision makers make correct decisions based on wrong accounting statements? \xd\ Modern enterprises also require financial personnel to have knowledge of IT systems, especially ERP systems. Financial talents must be half an IT expert. For example, the financial staff of KFC can always know the operation of each store through the IT system in the office of the headquarters, and how many cups of coke and chicken wings have been sold in the past half hour. Financial personnel need IT system to collect and summarize the general information. \xd\ Stage II: 6-1 years. General position: financial manager of a small company, financial supervisor of a large company \xd\ Learn soft skills and cultivate leadership \xd\ When serving as a financial manager for further study, no matter how complicated statements or financial problems he encounters, he can handle them calmly with CPA skills. But whenever there are inevitable non-financial problems in his work, he often feels embarrassed. He found that if he wants to be a high-level financial manager, it is not enough to have only financial knowledge. He must focus on finance and have comprehensive business management knowledge at the same time. Therefore, he began to consider improving his international knowledge level and accepted a brand-new challenge as the financial director of Kodak Graphic Image Group in Greater China. The new challenges also made him feel the importance of comprehensive knowledge structure and international vision, and he finally decided to apply for ACCA. \xd\ The third stage: 1-15 years. General position: Chief financial officer of a small company, financial manager of a large company \xd\ Before deeply understanding the culture of the company in which they work, most people have a stable understanding of their personal career and think that frequent job hopping will affect your development. Pan Yu doesn't think so. His point of view is that as long as job-hopping is based on the direction of the industry, the speed may be more effective. Because most people's influence on job-hopping rejection is influenced by foreign companies such as Europe, America and Japan, but these are different due to different national development environments. China's current economic development speed is unmatched by Europe, America and other countries. In China, new industries may be born every day, and large multinational enterprises will enter China. It can be said that China is now in an integration stage. Personally, I think it is understandable if the job-hopping frequency is a little faster in the first two stages of my career. It may also show that this person has the courage to accept new things and challenges and can learn many different things. I have worked in manufacturing, catering and financial consulting industries, thus broadening my knowledge. When I encounter problems in my industry, I can use what I have learned in other industries to solve them by analogy. \xd\ In fact, there is no difference between the position itself and the position itself. The most taboo thing is that your career has no established direction. I have a friend who did logistics after graduation, worked for two years and went to study for a master's degree. After graduation, he did marketing and started to do finance two years ago. In this way, his current 12-year career has been cut into sections, and every line is not refined, so he is still just an ordinary accounting clerk.