Listen "Xavier Baraton - CAO of Carrefour France - Building an innovative finance team"
Episode Synopsis
How to organise the finance department and IT collaboration to get the best results? What role do data and data governance play in a successful transformation? How to implement robotic process automation to maintain high satisfaction levels among employees?
In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Xavier Baraton, CAO of Carrefour France tells Hendrik Deckers about 4 main pillars of transformation in the finance department:
- Evolving from traditional ERP
- Automation & people management
- Big data & data governance
- Process mining
Xavier shares his experience and advice on how to manage transversal teams and what a productive collaboration between IT and finance can look like. He explains how a senior leader’s ego influences horizontal and vertical relationships in the organisation, how to overcome challenges posed by different communication styles and what he does to foster effective implementation of novelties – tools and ways of thinking - across teams.
Listen to this interview to find out more!
In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Xavier Baraton, CAO of Carrefour France tells Hendrik Deckers about 4 main pillars of transformation in the finance department:
- Evolving from traditional ERP
- Automation & people management
- Big data & data governance
- Process mining
Xavier shares his experience and advice on how to manage transversal teams and what a productive collaboration between IT and finance can look like. He explains how a senior leader’s ego influences horizontal and vertical relationships in the organisation, how to overcome challenges posed by different communication styles and what he does to foster effective implementation of novelties – tools and ways of thinking - across teams.
Listen to this interview to find out more!
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