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Aug 2024
29m 30s

Data Skills for the Modern Office of Fin...

Vena Solutions
About this episode
Finance teams that want to be more data-driven need both technology that can consolidate mountains of data, and skilled professionals who can interpret what it all means.
Thomas Ho serves as the Vice President at ProLytics Consulting Group, guiding clients through the digital transformation in finance. In a discussion with Melissa Howatson,

Thomas discusses how data gathering methods are revolutionizing finance roles, necessitating new skills that finance professionals need to master to keep pace with rapid change.

Learn what hard skills are essential to the modern Office of Finance and how finance leaders can upskill their teams to improve the accuracy and efficiency of financial forecasting and modeling.

Discussed In This Episode:
  • The transformative impact of technology on the Finance Department and the evolving requirements of finance occupations
  • The critical importance of data literacy, data visualization, and data analytics for modern finance professionals
  • The importance of learning SQL and other programming languages to perform needed data analysis and financial modeling
  • How micro-learning and cross-team training can allow finance professionals to acquire new skills on the job and level up in their roles
  • The tools and tech stack finance teams need to support data collection and data interpretation
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