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After graduating from school, He Xueyan joined the work, and He Xueyan was only a cashier and a statistician. With a hard work that did not accept defeat, she immersed herself in hard work to accumulate experience and ability, and used her leisure time to study, and finally obtained the certified public accountant certificate. She has been the Financial Director of Boneng Gas AG for 16 years.
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Looking back at his own growth path, He Xueyan said: "In the work, financial people should actively participate in the formulation of corporate strategies, engage in post-accounting to advance counseling; in terms of personal growth, financial people should have lifelong learning thinking and actively cultivate the ability to cope with unknown challenges." ”
The biggest challenge in the workplace is the integration of industry and finance
After leaving the school, He Xueyan participated in the Qingbaijiang District Material Bureau in Chengdu, engaged in cashier and statistics.
After work, the textbook knowledge accumulated in school is not enough. She kept groping and humbly asking others for advice. In addition, during the work period, she took time to study by herself to solve the problems encountered in the work, and also obtained the undergraduate certificate of accounting of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics through self-examination, and successively obtained the primary title of accountant, the intermediate title, and also served as an accountant in a furniture factory. After 10 years of working, she finally earned her CPA certificate.
This is an important milestone in her career development.
"The CPA certificate is a necessary stepping stone for financial people to move higher in the workplace. It is not easy for me to get a certified public accountant certificate, after all, I can only find time to read books in my spare time at work. This incident also gave me confidence that with my own ability, I can do better. ”
In 2000, He Xueyan came to Sichuan Boneng Gas Co., Ltd. to work with the CPA certificate and opportunity obtained, starting from the host accountant, accounting supervisor, deputy manager of the finance department, and manager of the finance department, and became the company's financial director in 2005 and has served since then.
What was the biggest challenge in my career?
Once, He Xueyan received a reflection from the accountant of a subsidiary of the group in her work, and found that the amount of accounts received in advance was small and abnormal. At the same time as reporting to the leaders of the group, she asked the accounting staff to immediately and thoroughly investigate, organized the financial personnel to check the original vouchers, found that the existing original vouchers were more than the original vouchers at the time of accounting, and found that the cash received by the cashier was not deposited in the bank in time, and the amount did not match. Later, after verification, it was found that the cashier of the subsidiary took advantage of his position to embezzle public funds, and immediately took measures to remedy it.
Through this isolated incident, He Xueyan believes that the group company should not only plug the loopholes in internal control management, but also comprehensively improve the level of informatization in the long run, force the improvement of the internal control process through informatization, and support the business development of the group company, including subsidiaries, from a financial point of view.
"In the process of implementing internal control rectification, the internal links of finance are rectified more quickly. The method is to comprehensively improve the level of financial informatization of the group company, unify the accounting policy, unify the financial management system, and strengthen the daily guidance of finance, strengthen financial audit, internal control audit and combine external audit, plug internal control loopholes, and prevent problems before they occur. Through the verification of the collection process of each subsidiary, we found that there was an uncontrolled aspect of the collection process, especially the management of cash. However, the specification of the process will increase the workload and feel uncomfortable for business personnel, so it is relatively slow to implement and has not yet achieved complete rectification. ”
This also fully confirms that finance and business are strongly related, and every step of the company's financial process needs to have full internal communication with the business.
Seemingly spontaneous, behind it is a personal effort
He first entered the workplace to work in the Material Bureau, then experienced the dissolution of the Material Bureau, self-employment and self-study, and then went to the city gas company to engage in financial work, and served as the financial director and director of the company, personal growth accompanied by the growth of the company. When it first joined, Boneng Gas was only a single company, with assets of 73 million yuan and income of only 25.5 million yuan, and now the company's asset scale has reached 1.23 billion yuan, with revenue of 1.05 billion yuan, subsidiaries and shareholding companies up to 20. The expansion of scale has also increased the difficulty of management, and the work needs continuous exploration and summarization, and constantly improves the ability of individuals to cope with challenges. He Xueyan believes that every step of her career development seems to be natural, but it is actually the result of her own efforts, and she always believes that opportunities are always left to those who are prepared.
Informatization, digitalization, and big data and artificial intelligence on the impact of finance is increasing, financial digitalization to the financial people put forward higher requirements, "in the post for more than 10 years, a lot of system construction is hands-on, have been used in practice, but I still feel that there are still many challenges in the post, the biggest challenge is that financial informatization is not enough, the connection with the business is not enough, the awareness of internal control is not enough." ”
How to deal with the challenges posed by digitalization for financial people? He Xueyan believes that financial personnel should actively promote the company's comprehensive informatization, and at the same time open up the business system with the financial system, rely on the information system, and control the business risk node from the process.
The implementation of industry-finance integration, especially the financial work related to corporate management and strategy, needs to be supported by the company's responsible person and management, and the promotion to "first-hand project" can implement the financial work combined with the company's strategy. He Xueyan believes that financial people should maintain good communication with the boss of the company, should think about the problem from the perspective of the company, from the perspective of the boss, and maintain the consistency of values with the boss of the company, and the management policy proposed on this basis is easier to implement. At the same time, finance should be involved in the formulation of the company's strategy, keep up with the company's development, and provide better services to the leadership and business.
The creative thinking of financial people must have a foundation
The last 10 years have been a period of drastic changes in the financial external environment. In the era of financial digitalization, many financial people have put forward creative thinking.
"Financial people should have a creative thinking, be proactive and change-seeking, and cannot stick to the previous thinking and handling methods." However, innovation and change is based on the development of the times and the development of the company, not the innovation of divergent thinking, and it must have a foundation. ”
In this uncertain VUCA era, what capabilities should financial people have in order to better grasp the future?
He Xueyan believes that financial people must have both systematic thinking ability and down-to-earth financial work ability. Financial people must have the ability to continuously learn, and their thinking must be able to keep up with the pace of the development of the company and the times.
During her work at Boneng Gas, He Xueyan presided over a number of financial digitization projects, including: the implementation of the Group's financial software and the docking with the business information system, which realized the timely aggregation and processing of business information; through the implementation of online charging, simplified the work process and reduced the management difficulty of the business department; through the accounting and feedback of the individual business profits of each project, let the business department understand the accounting principles, which is conducive to their consideration of various cost factors when negotiating; through the timely statistics and feedback of accounts receivable, Let the business department timely understand the arrears information, which is conducive to collection; through the assessment of financial indicators, strengthen the financial thinking of business personnel, let them understand their work priorities, strengthen the planning and forward-looking of the work; calculate the return rate and payback period for the project acquisition, provide reference for the project acquisition; and avoid business risks by participating in the signing and review of the contract.
"Financial people must have business thinking, communicate more with business personnel, and think about problems from their point of view in order to have better business thinking." The purpose of industry-finance integration is to make finance better serve the business and provide more data support for business development. Only by understanding more about the company's strategy, understanding more about the company's business, and participating more in the formulation of corporate strategy and business activities can finance better support business decisions and corporate strategies. ”
The financial leader should take the lead in learning
From an ordinary financial person to a company with an annual revenue of 1 billion yuan, He Xueyan believes that his main strength is to be good at learning, and the threesome will have my teacher, "study well, every day upwards", which is the eternal truth; there is a serious and responsible work attitude, do everything to do their best.
At different stages of work, the focus of learning is different - focusing on the study and acquisition of academic qualifications and qualifications when young, and focusing on practical and empirical learning after working for a period of time. In terms of time arrangement, you can focus on academic improvement when you are young, and focus on the expansion of work ability in old age.
Under the guidance of financial intelligence, many companies use RPA instead of repetitive labor, and the number of grass-roots financial personnel is reduced. She believes that grass-roots financial personnel should be prepared for transformation, from accounting accounting to management accounting, sinking into the business, engaging in post-accounting to advance counsel, and peers in the process.
In terms of financial team building, He Xueyan believes that we must pay attention to the construction of echelons, we must have people of different generations, and we must be able to lead the new with the old; new people should know how to be grateful and respect older colleagues; older colleagues should see the strengths of young people, learn their vitality and enthusiasm for work; emphasize learning, while taking the lead in learning, forming a good learning atmosphere; in addition to the planning of the department, they are also encouraged to go out of the department, if there is better development outside the company, also give blessings and support!
In 2022, He Xueyan has a new goal in her work:
"The continuous improvement and supplementation of the financial informatization of the group company, and the adherence to the internal and external audit system." The further promotion of the integration of industry and finance, and the gradual implementation of the financial sharing center. ”