CFO Studio Magazine with Alison Cornell

10 WWW.CFOSTUDIO.COM Q1 2017 FEATURED CFO T he most exciting part about being a chief financial officer, says Dan Crumb, the Kansas City Chiefs CFO, is the ability to play a strategic role in the organization. “We touch every department,” he says. “We’re involved in the overall business, from budgeting to business planning.” For him, the years 2015 and 2016 have provided exhilaration, not so much because of the way the team performed (and the Chiefs did have a great 2015 season, turning in 10 consecutive wins and landing a wild-card berth in the playoffs), but because Crumb pushed for and oversaw the design of a business planning system that is now used by the entire Chiefs organization. Its capabilities and dashboard give him what a football scout might DAN CRUMB, CFO OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS FOOTBALL TEAM, WANTED THE SPORTS FRANCHISE TO BENEFIT FROM A MORE EFFICIENT AND TRANSPARENT BUSINESS PLANNING SYSTEM — SO HE BUILT ONE BY JULIE BARKER Tackling Systems Head-on