CFO Studio Magazine - CFO Innovation Award Winners

WINNER 2nd QUARTER 2015 WWW.CFOSTUDIO.COM 13 CFO Success Award Technology James Lusk Chief Financial Officer ABM Industries, Inc. “Without ‘order’ a finance executive will fail. ‘Order’ is the key to fulfilling the mission of the organization. Controls and accuracy are needed for success, but there is a sweet spot between ‘order’ and ‘disorder,’ which when it is found can unleash a financial organization to deliver business impacts that help take the business to a different level. What has worked well for us is to use small teams of empowered people who work on and deliver innovative capabilities built on top of our core/disciplined process and systems platform. … It generally takes a different type of person to deliver disruptive solutions; thus we have deployed a small ‘black-ops’ approach to stimulate innovation. It should be noted, however, that all of our solutions that are used for financial purposes must pass our internal controls tests. These tests, on occasion, have led us to rework elements of our ‘disruptive’ solutions to ensure that they are fully ‘industrial strength,’ meaning they meet our control and enterprise process and systems standards.” Finalists for CFO Success Award — Technology • Paul Mallen, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Amalgamated Life Insurance Company • Luke McKinnon, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance, The Louis Berger Group • Steve O’Connell, Chief Financial Officer, Lenox Corporation • Christopher Rausch, Chief Financial Officer, Turtle & Hughes