In this article from Raconteur (special interest publisher for The Times and The Sunday Times), “How Finance Chiefs Can Gain the Upper Hand in a Private Equity Deal”, Christian contributed his thoughts on the importance of the CFO’s role in the investment journey.

Investors are increasingly focused on understanding how and why financial, commercial and operational trends are occurring. CFOs must be able to produce data-backed analyses of business growth and confidence over future earnings. CFOs who can harness data and technology to improve the efficiency and quality of reporting achieve this outcome, but also afford themselves more time to think strategically and commercially about the business model and growth levers.