Target hires former Pepsi finance executive Jim Lee as CFO

We read Jim Lee’s CFO Dive interview with particular interest because it articulates a leadership profile in growing demand across the DACH region: deep international operating experience paired with a genuine appetite for turnaround complexity. Boards are weighting transformation credentials more heavily than they did even two years ago.

PCAOB reports sharp drop in Big Four audit deficiencies

When audit quality improves at the Big Four, it reshapes what companies expect from their own finance teams. The downstream effect on internal audit and controllership hiring across the DACH region is already visible in the roles we fill.

SAP and HPE partner on edge-deployed tabular AI models

When satellite data meets enterprise resource planning, the skill requirements shift. Clients have started asking for profiles that sit across infrastructure, data science, and SAP integration in ways that would have seemed fragmented a few years ago.

SAP adds AI governance tooling for developers at TechEd

SAP is giving developers a clearer path from AI concept to production deployment, with tooling that spans creation, integration and governance. For us, the governance piece is where the hiring pressure will concentrate.