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You can't layer AI over a broken operating model.
The greatest constraint on transformation is no longer technology. It is the operating model.
- Experience25+years in finance transformation
- Practice growth$200M+EY CFO Advisory revenue, from under $20M
- EY Partner10years leading CFO Advisory and performance improvement
- Leadership4global consultancies: EY, IBM, Deloitte and RSM


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Building the Strategic Finance Operating Model
The CFO's Blueprint for Value Creation in the Age of AI
The Strategic Finance Operating Model™ (SFOM™) redesigns finance from a reporting function into a driver of enterprise value: ten interconnected components, four stages of maturity, one shared language for finance and the business.
Why finance must transform: The new CFO mandate
Designing the Strategic Finance Operating Model™: The finance maturity model, assessing today and designing for tomorrow
The Strategic Finance Operating Model™ journey
Leading transformation: Where operating models meet human behavior, and why transformations fail
The future of finance: The AI-native finance function
How is artificial intelligence being governed? The fiduciary responsibilities of corporations and governments
Inside the book
Five parts. One blueprint.
From why finance must transform, through designing and delivering the Strategic Finance Operating Model™, to leading the human side of change and the future of finance.

Part I · Chapters 1–3
Why Transformation Now?
Why finance has to change, and why the operating model, not the technology, is where that change has to start.
- The CFO mandate has changed
- The case for a new operating model
- Introducing the SFOM™ as the blueprint
Solutions
Fix the model. Then scale it.
Invictus Global Advisors helps boards, CEOs, CFOs, finance executives, private equity sponsors, operating companies and leadership teams fix the model first, then make it work. One holistic solution, built on a comprehensive, foundational blueprint: the Strategic Finance Operating Model™.

Strategy that can be implemented. Transformation that creates measurable value.
Most strategies don't fail because they're wrong. They fail in execution and project proliferation. We design the operating model that can carry your strategy, design an implementable roadmap for value creation, then help you put it to work.
Strategic Finance Operating Model assessment and maturity diagnostic
Actionable future-state design and a realistic, implementable roadmap
Constituent, consensus-driven prioritization of initiatives based on business cases, value creation and ROI (return on investment)
Change leadership through execution, with an apprenticeship model and a human-in-the-loop focus
Hands-on executive leadership: practical, experience-centric solutions
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Why Invictus Global Advisors
Experience Centric. Practical Solutions. Bespoke Strategies. Measurable Results.
Fix the model before you add the AI.
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