Hadas Sheinfeld (Sisense) on Leading the Energy, Hiring for Grit & Acting Like a Director First
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Hadas Sheinfeld discusses innovative hiring practices and leadership in finance at Sisense.
The biggest mistake finance teams make today is hiring for patterns. Same degree, same Big Four background, same SaaS experience — and then leadership wonders why they get average results. Hadas Sheinfeld has spent her career making the opposite bet.Hadas is Director of Finance at Sisense, where she manages finance operations across Israel, the US, and Ukraine. She joins GoToMasters for a conversation about what it actually takes to build a finance team that compounds value over time — and what it took for her to act like a director before anyone formally promoted her into the role.She breaks down the three pillars she uses to hire her team: grit over templates, ability over titles, and pushing finance from data checkers into storytellers who can tell leadership what the numbers mean for the company's future. She gets into the moment that turned her from a temporary fix into a real leader (a team member asked her what events she was planning that year), and the dangerous blind spot most managers carry — assuming their employees don't have the courage to move on, when the best ones already know they do.If you're hiring into a finance function, building a team you want to keep, or…
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