CFO Srinivas Phatak shares how Unilever is connecting bold strategy with disciplined execution – including making clear choices about where to invest in AI.
Win Your CFO Tenure
A successful CFO tenure depends on shaping a forward-looking agenda that anchors financial strategy in enterprise value, reflects evolving CFO's priorities, and aligns performance priorities across the business.
Interview
May 26, 2026
Article
June 10, 2025
Finance functions are ideal starting points for cost programs, offering swift, substantial savings and strategic benefits such as faster execution and streamlined ways of working.
Article
March 4, 2021
By demonstrating results early, new CFOs facilitate their longer-term strategy and transformation efforts, paving the way for growth.
Article
February 2, 2021
A successful tenure begins with getting to know the finance function and establishing a vision to guide value creation.
Hear from Fellow CFOs
In this video series, finance leaders including Anne Bramman (former CFO at Nordstrom, Circana, and Avery Dennison), Bob Ryder (former CFO at Constellation Brands and Resideo), Tom Casey (former CFO at Lending Club and Acelity), and Jeff Elliott (former CFO at Exact Sciences) explore the evolving role of the CFO. They emphasize the CFO as a key driver of strategy and performance, highlight the importance of technology, particularly AI, in reshaping finance functions, share insights on overcoming resistance to transformation, and offer practical advice on motivating teams and sustaining change
Video
December 18, 2024
Inspiring Change with Vision and Trust
See how CFOs are redefining leadership by inspiring trust, driving transformation, and leading long-term finance strategies aligned with corporate goals.
Video
December 18, 2024
Lessons from CFOs Driving Real-World Success
Discover how CFOs achieved finance transformation success with strategy, prioritization, and alignment across the organization.
Video
December 18, 2024
Redefining the Role of the Finance Function
Learn how CFOs are stepping up as champions of change to lead finance function transformations and unlock corporate success.
Video
December 18, 2024
Empowering the CFO Agenda with AI and Predictive Insights
Learn how integrated tech platforms and predictive AI empower CFOs to elevate the finance function and guide strategy.
Rebuild Finance for What's Next
Modernize your finance function to deliver faster insights, sharper control, and greater impact. Our experts provide CFO insights on emerging corporate finance trends and the tools CFOs need to meet them head-on.
Report
May 6, 2026
From raw material shocks to margin pressure, sustainability-related issues are hitting fashion P&Ls—and making it critical for CFOs to embed sustainability into financial decision-making.
Article
March 27, 2025
Leaders must boost the finance function’s performance in several key areas to enable their companies to successfully navigate the energy transition.
Article
November 1, 2024
Focus less on rigid details and more on flexible, tech-powered planning.
Article
November 14, 2022
Sustainability has become inseparable from financial success, making finance leaders key players. Only they can hardwire this new priority into steering and performance management.
Accelerate Capabilities and Performance
Redesign how finance works by building the skills, tools, and mindsets that drive sustainable performance gains. Our corporate finance insights provide a practical lens to reshape the function, while our CFO strategy frameworks help align finance goals with enterprise value creation.
Article
March 6, 2026
As its responsibilities increase, finance must shift from scorekeeping to shaping performance—clarifying risk, guiding tradeoffs, and improving capabilities that drive results.
Article
February 13, 2025
With both capital costs and external risks on the rise, banks need to build a performance-oriented culture at every level.
Article
October 10, 2024
Companies are extending the art of what’s possible by achieving a quantum leap in reporting via systematic reframing and approaching reporting from new perspectives.
Article
November 2, 2023
To help companies satisfy growth-minded investors, we outline best practices for the basic disciplines of capital allocation—strategic budgeting, project selection, and investment governance.
Article
September 22, 2023
Recent failures highlight the importance of building resilient approaches to financial risk management.
Make AI Your Competitive Edge
From predictive forecasting to real-time insights, see how AI is giving forward-looking CFOs the edge to stay ahead of corporate finance trends.
Article
May 12, 2026
AI is advancing quickly in finance. The constraint is no longer capability, but whether CFOs can build the data, processes, and skills to realize returns.
Article
June 4, 2025
What separates high-ROI AI efforts in finance? The combination of proven implementation tactics and a laser focus on impact-driven use cases.
Article
September 27, 2024
New technologies can dramatically improve finance processes, making them faster and more accurate, so that CFOs have better insights about what’s coming.
At BCG, we partner with chief financial officers to modernize finance, strengthen performance, and turn strategy into measurable value creation. Visit our LinkedIn page for more insights shaping the CFO agenda.
Equip a Team Built for the Future
Great CFOs build great teams. Attract the right talent, strengthen critical skills, and shape a future-ready culture that supports the evolving CFO agenda.
Article
February 17, 2025
Women who reach the top in finance are reshaping the profession and creating newfound value for their organizations. Female CFOs tell us how.
Article
May 11, 2023
The mandate for finance is evolving from simple bookkeeping to serving as a trusted business partner. To succeed, CFOs must develop their current workforce and recruit talent from new sources.
BCG’s CFO Excellence Panel is a finance function benchmarking solution that provides actionable insights to enhance corporate finance performance.
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