Finance Talent & Skills

The capability of the finance workforce: the skills a modern finance function requires, how roles are changing, career design, and how teams are equipped for technology-led change.

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.

The finance domains where this theme does most of its work.

If — and only if — technology is part of the answer here, this is the independently assessed market.

FP&AFP&A Software Buyer's GuideBest FP&A Software 2026

How performance in this area is measured, and what comparable finance organisations achieve.

Cost of FinanceFinance ProductivityTeam & OrganizationPlanning & Forecasting

Where the answer is a partner rather than a product — the specialisms that deliver work in this area.

Finance Operating ModelShared Services & GBSFinance ModernizationFP&A TransformationAI Strategy for Finance

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 Finance Talent & Skills are expressed in one vocabulary, not two.

Others in Operating & organisational.

Operating Model DesignProductivity & Cost of FinanceData Foundations & Trust

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.