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Land O’ Lakes CFO， Dan Knutson

To become thought leaders and influencers， finance professionals will need to expand their experience base. “For our finance staff， I think the most important thing is to have a broad range of experiences，”says Dan Knutson， executive vice president and CFO at food and agricultural cooperative Land O’ Lakes. “I would want somebody to have worked in each one of our businesses at one point， to be alongside that business partner， to be a valuable source of information， to be able to analyze data quickly and provide insights.”

“財務(wù)人員要成為企業(yè)的思想領(lǐng)袖，要有自己的影響力。為此，他們需要擴(kuò)大自己的實(shí)踐基礎(chǔ)，要有豐富的實(shí)踐經(jīng)驗(yàn)。” 藍(lán)多湖公司（Land O’ Lakes）執(zhí)行副總裁、首席財務(wù)官Dan Knutson這樣認(rèn)為，“我希望財務(wù)團(tuán)隊成員能夠到公司的每個業(yè)務(wù)部門進(jìn)行體驗(yàn)，與各部門的業(yè)務(wù)伙伴并肩作戰(zhàn)；希望他們成為有價值的信息來源；能夠快速分析數(shù)據(jù)，并給出自己的見解。”

Mahindra & Mahindra CFO， VS Parthasarathy

In the view of Mahindra’s & Mahindra’s Parthasarathy， finance professionals will need to evolve to become innovation leaders， central to a company’s success in hard times. “I think we ［in finance］ need to move beyond the paradigm called ‘business partnership’ and become value creators. A value creator has both functional expertise， on the one hand， and business acumen and business understanding， on the other. We don’t want accountants anymore，” he continues，“because computers can do most of the job. The functional expertise should come from thought leaders and influencers of today and tomorrow.”

印度領(lǐng)先汽車制造商Mahindra & Mahindra集團(tuán)CFO VS Parthasarathy認(rèn)為，當(dāng)企業(yè)經(jīng)歷困難時期時，財務(wù)人員應(yīng)當(dāng)成為創(chuàng)新的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，這是企業(yè)成功的關(guān)鍵。“財務(wù)人員的角色應(yīng)該不僅限于‘業(yè)務(wù)伙伴’，而是成為價值創(chuàng)造者，既要有專業(yè)知識，又要有商業(yè)智慧和業(yè)務(wù)理解能力。今天，我們不再需要單純的會計師，因?yàn)橛嬎銠C(jī)能夠處理大部分工作。我們需要的是能夠影響今天和未來的思想領(lǐng)袖。”

Jones Lang LaSalle Asia Pacific CFO，Angie Lim

For Angie Lim， CFO for the Asia Pacific region of the financial and professional services firm Jones Lang LaSalle， developing finance staffers with wider skills is one of the more important challenges she faces. “What you’re looking for，” she says， “are ‘people’ who are analytical， but also have good communication skills， and can interact and communicate and engage with others.” The ability to engage with business partners and analyze information is “something that you don’t find in every accountant，” Lim says. “A lot of them take the numbers and then run with it， without understanding what is happening behind the scenes. I think that’s a danger with the newer accountants that I’m seeing.”

美國房地產(chǎn)及資本管理公司仲量聯(lián)行亞太地區(qū)CFO Angie Lim 表示，她面臨的重要挑戰(zhàn)之一就是要培養(yǎng)財務(wù)人員具有更廣泛的技能。“我們需要的人才既要有分析能力，又要有良好的溝通技能，能夠與他人互動、交流，以及建立友好關(guān)系。會計人員大多缺乏與業(yè)務(wù)伙伴互動的能力以及信息分析能力，他們雖然每天跟數(shù)字打交道，但不了解數(shù)字背后的故事。這對于新的會計人員而言是非常危險的。”

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