About this episode

Marko Horvat discusses his extensive experience in finance roles and the impact of AI and organizational dynamics on the CFO's office.

Marko Horvat has been a public accountant, Controller, head of FP&A and CFO, as well as VP in Gartner's research and advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation. In this episode he talks: Interplay IT and CISO and organizational politics (“if it runs on electricity, it’s ours”)CFO skillsets gap Real change in CFO’s Office with AI (audit pattern recognition to forecasting) Last mile transformation in finance Mindset, skillset, toolset transformation Treating forecast as in perpetual beta The power of the subtotal function Recommended books: There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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