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from financial controller to business controller
We talked earlier about agile working in finance. Being agile and flexible requires not only a different way of working together, but also a different interpretation of finance functions. For instance, the role of the financial controller will have a different focus under the influence of developments in finance. The financial controller will increasingly become a business controller.
Analysing and advising
Recording and reporting are among the core tasks of the traditional controller. Tasks that are focused on the past. The future-oriented controller will focus more on analysing and advising. Financial director of Pocket Media, Bart Bruins: ‘A financial controller should focus more on data analysis, it is important to make many more connections. Every company nowadays has different data sources, as a controller you have to see how to link them together.’
Look ahead
The controller's new role is a proactive one. He indicates the significance of external developments for the control of the organisation and is actively involved in decision-making. In a report of Hays on the future of the financial sector confirms this: ‘There is an increasing focus on numbers, looking forward and less backwards. The business controller looks at what the added value of the available information is and how it should be used.’
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Different type of person
This also says something about the type of person behind the successful controller. ‘The consultants of the future will soon be, even more than now, the professionals who can speak well in public and possess ‘softer’ competences such as adaptability, critical reasoning and a feel for technological developments,’ says futurologist Marcel Bullinga.
