At a personal level, a key challenge facing CFOs is ‘how to do justice to the multiple expectations placed upon them’. Finance leaders are burdened not only with their traditional responsibilities of accounting, reporting and risk management but are also being called upon to support initiatives around organisational transformation, technology adoption, cyber security and lately, ESG. In addition, they are expected to support business growth and track and understand regulatory changes while somehow waging a hopeless war for talent. How does a CFO manage to remain effective under such circumstances? How does one prioritise objectives correctly and focus on those that most deserve one’s personal attention? Our next session will host two senior finance leaders who will talk through their approaches to identifying and addressing the CFO’s top individual priorities, and where CFOs can have the maximum impact. Dinesh Thapar is the recently appointed CFO of Bajaj Auto, prior to which he was the Group CFO at Reliance Retail and had spent two decades at HUL. Ajay Patil is VP and CFO at Cummins India and has over two decades of experience with Fortune 500 companies. The panellists will share and debate perspectives, challenges and dilemmas of modern-day CFOs, what they need to do to cope with the same, and where to focus for the maximum impact.