How Does A Financial Officer Work With His Boss?

Some people say that "small accounting" is just to highlight the authority of the boss. In fact, for financial accounting personnel, this is definitely not a small problem, and with the development of the economy, the influence of this acquired knowledge is more extensive.

This is not alarmist, because financial personnel have increasingly moved from behind the scenes to the front desk. Financial accountants have also changed from assistant managers of factory managers to CEO's decision partners, and are jointly responsible to the board of directors.

There is a common saying that I highly admire, that is, to do things after people first. Bread here contains a basic principle of human life. Only if you are a person without problems, do you believe that you will not deviate too much from what you do. What we are going to discuss today is neither a question of professional ethics and morality in accounting, nor a question of outlook on life and world. Let me talk about my experience in detail.

The boss I want to report is actually not a person, but a team with a division of labor. Specifically, it is the report of the fund allocation to the manager of the Finance Department of the headquarters group. accounting Accounting and other daily financial work reports to the manager of headquarters finance department (here we need to explain: "group finance department Corp finance" and "finance department finance") are the two departments of headquarters, which are responsible for fund and accounting work respectively. At the same time, there is also a senior manager representing their horizontal coordination in the mainland project. The most important thing is the straight line leader, general manager of the project. Therefore, how to face such a large number of "boss" who are hard to adjust and how to communicate effectively is a test for me. Inferior Boss They do not often come to the mainland. The means of reporting are telephone, e-mail and video conferencing. They are very professional managers. The professional level of financial accounting is definitely an expert, but there is still a lack of systematic understanding of the mainland's guidelines, tax laws, foreign exchange and financial policies. Although the general manager often travels back and forth to the mainland, the background of the architect makes him relatively unfamiliar with financial management. His guidance is limited to the general management scope. However, there are many specific problems that need to be signed by him before he can complete the approval process. So, for me, although many bosses are faced with, the professional boss is not around, and the straight line boss doesn't know his major. In such an architecture system, how to get along with the boss and achieve effective communication purposes is very important for achieving financial management objectives and trust.

I've gone so far, I want to talk about two words: "trust". When bosses encounter problems, they usually have two choices for subordinates, one is empowerment, the other is their own work. Generally speaking, bosses who are in the initial stage of entrepreneurship are all in command of everything and are accustomed to be commanders; while bosses of mature enterprises are more accustomed to full authorization, and there are two premises for authorization: one is to perfect a reasonable authorization system, and the other is to have two authorized objects. The owners of private enterprises either have no reasonable authorization system or have no confidence in the authorized objects, so they are usually very tired, and their subordinates are also very depressed.

Trust is more important for financial accounting personnel. Suppose the boss has no trust foundation for financial accountants. How can you communicate with them and get along well with each other? So you have the foundation of trust, and you can be very comfortable with your boss. But here's one thing to note, that is, the degree of agreement between the upper and lower levels. Generally speaking, when the recruiter is employed, the HR will give full consideration to it. However, we must guard against the HR's rookie who only sees the other party's garish qualifications, and brings you into a big uncle, which is absolutely a disaster for the financial accounting personnel and the company.

A strong professional knowledge is the basis for getting the boss's trust. If the professional ability is not enough, it is suggested that people should be as low-key as possible. Incompetent person It is absolutely not a wise choice. It is a principle that any boss wants to see if he is principled and not malfunctioning. Therefore, financial accountants should stick to the principles while keeping some skills in life. I find that many financial personnel's views are not wrong, but they refuse to accept it when they get to the boss. In fact, there is a problem of asymmetric information. The boss said NO in a subconscious way to some questions which he did not understand very well. At this time, how to persuade the boss to become a financial accountant's homework, he needs financial accounting personnel to combine the occasion, set clear interests, actual cases and boss's mood to persuade.

Limited to the limited level, I also said so much, there are many things that need to be experienced before we can understand and have a lot of reasons. The predecessors have summed up the experience. What we need to do is to have a hand in hand. Therefore, besides professional financial accountants, they have a wide range of hobbies in their hobbies. It is also a good investment for building a common language of communication between financial accountants and their bosses. I believe that with your efforts, the relationship with the boss will be more harmonious.