CFOs

A April Evans, partner, chief financial officer and chief compliance officer of Monitor Clipper Partners, was given the pfm Leadership Award at the PEI CFOs and CCOs Forum in January. Ahead of the presentation, pfm discussed her outlook for the industry, how things have changed since she started out and how women can put themselves in the driving seat for a career in private funds management.

We look at the hot topics from the industry’s premier gathering for private fund finance and operations execs in New York last week.

GP CFOs need to deliver at least what they’re expecting from their counterparts at portfolio companies, delegates stressed  

Compensation is crucial, but a seat at the table is increasingly important to back-office job-seekers.

Michael Chae, a deal guy who moved into management, on corporate finance and the three layers of the CFO role.

November’s pfm/EisnerAmper CFO Survey showed how much finance chiefs are having to perform tasks outside their traditional areas of expertise, writes Graeme Kerr

CFOs of lower mid-market private equity firms are facing mounting demands on the back and middle office, but finding the right release valve for fund administration duties is not always so simple

The role of a private equity firm CFO may start with finance and accounting, but it spreads much further than that, as Toby Mitchenall discovered when he sat down with a panel of senior executives and technical experts