Finding interim finance managers with exact industry experience is nearly impossible. Finance athletes with broad FP&A skills add value faster across multiple functions than specialists hired for narrow roles.
The ones that are the most challenging to fill are the ones where scope is very defined and the buyer is effectively looking for a needle in a haystack in terms of professional background. And that's not interim management. Once in a blue moon, we might have the exact professional that's worked in the exact industry and has faced the exact situations, whether for instance, you know, budgeting challenges or forecasting errors that they come and be brought in to fix or driving initiatives for a company. But more often than not, the scope needs to be broad enough and there's enough issues inside of a company for a well-rounded professional, an athlete, Paul, to your point of view, that can come in and tackle any part of the FP&A organization and even be wider than that to drop in and really start adding value on an immediate basis.
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