The CFO retirement wave is opening doors that were closed five years ago
Russell Reynolds data shows CFO retirements in the first half of 2026 hit an eight-year high. For finance professionals who have been waiting for their shot at the top seat, the maths is finally moving in their favour.
AI budgets are a finance problem no finance team was trained to solve
When Microsoft invoices you in credits and Snowflake invoices you in credits but neither credit means the same thing, the CFO cannot compare apples to apples. Finance hiring is starting to reflect that gap.
The change management playbook just got rewritten by AI
A Celonis executive with decades of transformation experience admits she had to rethink her entire approach for AI rollouts. When someone at that level says ‘have I done my job away?’, hiring managers should pay attention to what she learned.
Order management is where SAP’s AI integration will be tested first
SAP’s recognition in IDC’s retail order orchestration assessment points to something we’ve been tracking in hiring conversations: the skills required to run modern order management systems have quietly shifted from logistics to data architecture.
SAP’s supply chain push is creating a new kind of SAP role
Gartner has placed SAP at the top of its first-ever Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites. For us, the analyst ranking matters less than what it signals about the talent companies will need to make these systems work.