The Financial Backbone: building talent and capabilities for the new CFO era

The remit of the CFO has expanded materially, from financial stewardship to strategic leadership and organisational resilience. Yet the pathways developing future finance leaders have not evolved at the same pace.

As expectations accelerate and experience gaps widen, many organisations are reassessing how leadership depth is built, how critical capabilities are developed, and how succession risk is managed within the finance function.

This peer-level conversation brings together CFOs from large, complex organisations to exchange practical perspectives on strengthening capability, continuity, and long-term resilience in finance.

Key discussion themes:

• Building leadership depth beneath the CFO
• Developing commercial and technology-enabled capability early
• Rethinking succession for the modern finance mandate

C-Suite Conversations will explore what makes Europe's most influential companies tick.