Do You Actually Need a CFO? Instead, Hire for the Problem with Tom Hunter
The most expensive finance hire can be the one that looks senior enough to feel safe but solves the wrong problem.
Tom Hunter of Story Recruitment joins FP&A Today to explain why the first finance hire at a startup is often not a CFO. Story Recruitment focuses on first-CFO and first-finance-hire searches for Australian tech, fintech and deeptech startups, and Tom also hosts The CFO Track Podcast. His starting point is simple: before choosing a title, define the financial problem the business actually needs someone to solve.
That often means building the basics first. Tom describes financial…
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