• Shaival S Trivedi
• SuperCFO Challenge, Talent Management
• February 9, 2012

SuperCFO Challenge: Defy Your Finance IQ

by Shaival S Trivedi

Are you headhunting for finance professional for your business but having a tough time finding one? Or rather are you a finance professional who is preparing for that job interview for a dream job that you so desire? Or rather are you an academician who is having a hard time figuring out the right mix of students for your new semester’s batch?

If you have replied in the affirmative to any or all of the above queries, read on about the pioneering thought leadership initiative by SuperCFO called SuperCFO Challenge (www.supercfochallenge.com), an online Finance and Accounting Test (currently in beta testing), which stretches the limits of your Finance IQ!

Over the past few months, there has been frenetic activity at SuperCFO. A dedicated team of CFOs, Finance Professionals and Business Analysts have been burning the midnight oil to determinedly work out an online testing module that would test the caliber of finance professionals and by doing so ably assist Headhunters, Corporate HR and Academicians in selecting appropriate professionals and students for their mandates and academic programs respectively.

What then is the SuperCFO Challenge really? To put it succinctly, it is a Finance and Accounting Talent Assessment quiz. To elaborate further, it is a multiple choice test with a diverse set of questions that encapsulate the entire gamut of cognitive abilities of a prospective employee in Finance and Accounting.

Various aspects of technical skills in these areas like math, memory, perceptiveness and accuracy and technical skills in Finance and Accounts are covered, which essentially measure the Financial IQ of the prospect.

It needs to be clarified and understood here that our module is not confined to CFOs and their profiles, but to act as a generic testing benchmark in the Finance and Accounts sphere for decision makers such as CFOs, Entrepreneurs, Headhunters, HR in organizations, and Academia. The very raison d’etre of this thought leadership initiative baptized as the SuperCFO Challenge, is to become an industry wide tool for businesses and educational institutions in determining the standard of finance and accounts professionals for key positions.

As a case in point, suppose Company A wishes to hire a Tax Manager, who specializes in Transfer Pricing. The shortlisted candidates have cleared the preliminary HR interviews. So now, how does one go the final step in deciding the best suited candidate for the job at hand? One sure shot way, is to administer the SuperCFO Challenge to them. The Company can tweak the system (a soon to be launched feature) to test the prospects in their skills in Transfer Pricing, wherein all questions posed will be from this area. In this way, customization and instant test scores give the decision makers a quick-fire tool in selecting the right person for the job.

Likewise, in academia, coaching institutes for Finance and Accounts and Institutes of Higher Learning, key decision makers can leverage on the features and benefits of SuperCFO Challenge in the selection and testing of students for courses relating to Finance and Accounting. As has been mentioned earlier, the SuperCFO Challenge is in its beta testing phase.

We will soon be incorporating more state of the art features like.

• Apps for Smartphones and Tablets.
• More features for the customized landing pages for Clients
• Leading Professional Firms and Educational Institutions could sign-up as Knowledge Partners
• More solutions for corporates like dashboards and sophisticated analytics.

All in all, brace yourselves for a superlative experience with SuperCFO Challenge! With smart use of technology and inherent financial skillsets prevalent with the team at SuperCFO, I am confident that the SuperCFO Challenge is going to herald a revolution in the finance and accounting world. The lacuna that currently exists in the corporate world for separating the wheat from the chaff of finance professionals will now be bridged. Let the Challenge begin!

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