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# The future CFO: Building a strategic finance function for growth
- URL: https://www.financealliance.io/the-future-cfo-building-a-strategic-finance-function-for-growth/
- Published: 2026-09-15T10:09:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:45:40.000Z
- Description: Finance is under pressure to move faster, do more, and have greater influence. The question is: does your function have the capacity to do it?
- Author: Finance Alliance
- Tags: AI & Automation, Live session

Your CEO wants answers faster. Your board wants more accurate forecasts. The business wants finance involved earlier in decisions about **growth, investment, and costs**.

But if your team is still spending hours producing reports, chasing follow-ups and managing manual work, **when does finance get time to look forward?**

The future CFO builds a finance function that helps the business **decide what happens next.**

In this **live session**, Daniel de Sousa, CEO of Rillion, and Andrew DeLeo, CFO at Outpost, discuss how finance leaders are creating the capacity and capabilities to play a more strategic role: **automating manual work and building operating models that turn financial insight into action.**

## **What you’ll take away:**

- **Know what the CEO and board need from finance now:** faster answers, better forecasts, stronger decision support and cost control.
- **Find capacity without adding headcount.** See where automation can remove repetitive work and give your team more time for the work that actually matters.
- **Build finance around decisions:** understand how operating models, ownership and follow-through turn insight into action.
- **Make finance more influential.** Learn how to move from reporting performance to shaping business decisions.
- **Build the team for what comes next:** identify the roles, skills and ways of working needed for a more strategic finance function.

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## **Why attend**

- **Stop looking backwards all the time** \- Create more capacity for planning, analysis and decision support by reducing the manual work that consumes your team's time.
- **Become a more useful partner to the business** \- Learn how finance can have greater influence with the CEO, board and operational leadership, not just provide the numbers.
- **Build a function that can keep up** \- Understand the operating model and capabilities finance needs as expectations rise and decisions get made faster.

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## **Who should attend**

For **CFOs, Finance Directors, VPs and Heads of Finance, Controllers and FP&A Leaders** who want to:

- Spend less time on manual work and more on strategic priorities
- Increase finance's influence across the business
- Improve how finance supports forecasting, planning and decisions
- Build a modern finance function that can grow with the business

## **Your speakers:**

[**Daniel de Sousa**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danield11/) *CEO, Rillion*

Daniel de Sousa is CEO of Rillion with more than 15 years' experience leading and scaling international SaaS companies, including senior leadership roles at Trivec and Visma. He has worked closely with CFOs and executive teams on growth, digital transformation and building modern finance organizations.

[**Andrew DeLeo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-deleo/) *CFO, Outpost*

Andrew DeLeo leads finance, strategy, capital planning, data and investor relations at Outpost as it scales its nationwide terminal network and technology platform. He brings firsthand experience of balancing operational demands with strategic planning and sustainable growth.

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