Philippa Lawrence is a global finance and accounting leader and is currently vice president and chief accounting officer at Workday. Prior to that, she held controller roles at Google, Brocade, Motorola, and Katerra.
As critical as the financial close is, accounting professionals know it's also often a time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone process.
Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, CFOs and finance leaders faced an increasingly complex landscape, driven by a multitude of social, political, and economic threats.