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The Future Finance Function
What does this function — and this job — look like in five years?
Overview
The trajectory of the Office of the CFO: how the shape of the function, the role of the CFO and the boundary between finance and the wider business are changing.
Themes cut across the nine finance domains. An article lives in one domain, but may speak to this theme from several — which is why this page is an index, not a home.
Research on this theme
The Future Finance Function — research
Research on this theme is in preparation. The theme, its question and its place in the architecture are permanent; the library publishes into it continuously.
This category covers: The trajectory of the Office of the CFO: how the shape of the function, the role of the CFO and the boundary between finance and the wider business are changing.
Where this question lands
All domains →The finance domains where this theme does most of its work.
Related software
Software Intelligence →If — and only if — technology is part of the answer here, this is the independently assessed market.
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Related benchmarks
Benchmark Intelligence →How performance in this area is measured, and what comparable finance organisations achieve.
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Related implementation
Transformation Marketplace →Where the answer is a partner rather than a product — the specialisms that deliver work in this area.
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Related assessment
How it works →The Executive Finance Assessment reads your organisation against the same maturity spine, decision archetypes and benchmark models used across this pillar — so what you read here and what it tells you about The Future Finance Function are expressed in one vocabulary, not two.
One connected journey — Understand, Assess, Implement
Three questions, in the order finance leaders actually ask them — understand the change, assess your own position, then find the partner who can deliver it. Each step answers one and hands you to the next.
Finance Transformation Intelligence
What is changing in the finance function, and what the best organisations do about it.
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What that means for your organisation specifically — your position, your highest-impact move.
Explore →Finance Transformation Marketplace
Who helps you actually deliver it — a curated network of finance transformation partners.
Explore →What does the future finance function mean for your organisation?
Research frames the question in general. The Executive Finance Assessment answers it for your finance function specifically — with your position, your highest-impact move and the evidence behind it.
Begins with a free Executive Brief — about five minutes, anonymous, no account. Full assessment €59, one-time. It complements the research; it does not replace it.