Welcome to another episode of Generation CFO, this time with Henri Taipale – CEO and founder of Qvalia.
Sponsored by SSON Week - http://bit.ly/SSONCFOCHAT
In this episode, Henri talks about Qvalia and his career journey. He also shares about digital transformation and automation, pros and cons of RPA, accounting and transactional processes. Henri started in a very entrepreneurial journey working with taxation. In his experience, he found out that various organizations have problems in taxation as well as managing transactional processes. Henri and I talk about the need of creating a systematic way in finding these mistakes in taxation which is relative to the purchase and sale transactions of any business.
Moving forward to digital transformation and RPA, Henri mentions that organisation must be able to clearly identify why they need automation. Data is probably the most important asset of an organisation because the success of automation depends on it. Organisation must understand what specific technology to use for which specific business function.
Henri’s company, Qvalia, specializes on the procurement or sales side and consolidating the information in that process. Their goal is to improve and automate financial processes.
Episode Quotes
"Finance professionals needs to be with the operations and be more customer oriented"
"The success of automation depends on the quality of the data"
"Before doing automation, look at first the information you are managing and why"
"Providing customer value should be the driving force for every team in the business"
"The more that information is automated, the more that it is entangled"
"Centralised data is extremely good because it is efficient and fast"
"Organisations need to understand what specific technology to use for which specific function or solution"
Listen to Learn
00:25 Introduction about the episode topics
06:10 Getting to know Henri Taipale - career journey
09:48 Do CFOs need to be entrepreneurial? What are the benefits?
12:10 The role of accounting in the business
15:15 Taxation, automation and data
17:25 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - when is it necessary?
22:04 Remarkable changes because of automation, How CFOs can adapt to it
23:21 The impact of automation in supplier management
25:40 Overview about Qvalia
28:20 Henri's take about Blockchain
33:00 What does the finance team looks like 10 years from now?
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Welcome to another episode of Generation CFO, this time with Henri Taipale – CEO and founder of Qvalia.
Sponsored by SSON Week - http://bit.ly/SSONCFOCHAT
In this episode, Henri talks about Qvalia and his career journey. He also shares about digital transformation and automation, pros and cons of RPA, accounting and transactional processes. Henri started in a very entrepreneurial journey working with taxation. In his experience, he found out that various organizations have problems in taxation as well as managing transactional processes. Henri and I talk about the need of creating a systematic way in finding these mistakes in taxation which is relative to the purchase and sale transactions of any business.
Moving forward to digital transformation and RPA, Henri mentions that organisation must be able to clearly identify why they need automation. Data is probably the most important asset of an organisation because the success of automation depends on it. Organisation must understand what specific technology to use for which specific business function.
Henri’s company, Qvalia, specializes on the procurement or sales side and consolidating the information in that process. Their goal is to improve and automate financial processes.
Episode Quotes
"Finance professionals needs to be with the operations and be more customer oriented"
"The success of automation depends on the quality of the data"
"Before doing automation, look at first the information you are managing and why"
"Providing customer value should be the driving force for every team in the business"
"The more that information is automated, the more that it is entangled"
"Centralised data is extremely good because it is efficient and fast"
"Organisations need to understand what specific technology to use for which specific function or solution"
Listen to Learn
00:25 Introduction about the episode topics
06:10 Getting to know Henri Taipale - career journey
09:48 Do CFOs need to be entrepreneurial? What are the benefits?
12:10 The role of accounting in the business
15:15 Taxation, automation and data
17:25 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - when is it necessary?
22:04 Remarkable changes because of automation, How CFOs can adapt to it
23:21 The impact of automation in supplier management
25:40 Overview about Qvalia
28:20 Henri's take about Blockchain
33:00 What does the finance team looks like 10 years from now?
Hello everyone! Welcome to Generation CFO!
I am joined by Simon Cole to talk about his finance career journey and the trends around his move to start up!
Do not isolate yourself, go out, talk to the people and understand how the business works!
Talking about data and automation, Simon points out that data is always going somewhere, and finance needs to be collecting it and turning it into information for the rest of the business to use.
As a finance professional, one should understand the marketing, sales team, and the different functions of the company. New talents, ideas, and technology are great, as long as the leadership knows how to exploit it.
Listen as Simon and I talk about how CFOs drive the vision of the business, startups and the rise of millennial's.
Episode Quotes
"The best thing I ever did was get involved in a company where I have had genuine interest in"
"Do not isolate yourself, you have to go out and talk to the people and understand how the business works"
"As a CFO, just make yourself invaluable. Getting another strength like technology is a good place to go"
"There is an incredible talent out there but I think there are a lot of people who are shortcutting"
"You have so much power and it is kind of down to you where you want to work your way into it"
Listen to Learn
00:01
Getting to know Simon Cole - finance career journey
04:02
What behaviors to take on to have that broader role as a finance professional?
05:55
The controller role, data analytics and automation
10:22
Describing the career path of a modern CFO
13:50
How do I as a CFO drive the vision of the business?
15:42
The future of the positional power of a CFO
19:00
Startups and the rise of millennials/digital natives in the business
24:38
User experience and its impact to the business
27:45
The essence of credibility for finance professionals
29:53
Where is the biggest opportunities and right path for finance professionals?
Generation CFO by Christopher Argent #CFOchat
Welcome to another episode of Generation CFO, this time with Henri Taipale – CEO and founder of Qvalia.
Sponsored by SSON Week - http://bit.ly/SSONCFOCHAT
In this episode, Henri talks about Qvalia and his career journey. He also shares about digital transformation and automation, pros and cons of RPA, accounting and transactional processes. Henri started in a very entrepreneurial journey working with taxation. In his experience, he found out that various organizations have problems in taxation as well as managing transactional processes. Henri and I talk about the need of creating a systematic way in finding these mistakes in taxation which is relative to the purchase and sale transactions of any business.
Moving forward to digital transformation and RPA, Henri mentions that organisation must be able to clearly identify why they need automation. Data is probably the most important asset of an organisation because the success of automation depends on it. Organisation must understand what specific technology to use for which specific business function.
Henri’s company, Qvalia, specializes on the procurement or sales side and consolidating the information in that process. Their goal is to improve and automate financial processes.
Episode Quotes
"Finance professionals needs to be with the operations and be more customer oriented"
"The success of automation depends on the quality of the data"
"Before doing automation, look at first the information you are managing and why"
"Providing customer value should be the driving force for every team in the business"
"The more that information is automated, the more that it is entangled"
"Centralised data is extremely good because it is efficient and fast"
"Organisations need to understand what specific technology to use for which specific function or solution"
Listen to Learn
00:25 Introduction about the episode topics
06:10 Getting to know Henri Taipale - career journey
09:48 Do CFOs need to be entrepreneurial? What are the benefits?
12:10 The role of accounting in the business
15:15 Taxation, automation and data
17:25 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - when is it necessary?
22:04 Remarkable changes because of automation, How CFOs can adapt to it
23:21 The impact of automation in supplier management
25:40 Overview about Qvalia
28:20 Henri's take about Blockchain
33:00 What does the finance team looks like 10 years from now?
