Has anyone hired a leader to specifically manage finance transformation and more digitally savvy talent? Did you target someone more finance focused or more IT focused?

I have seen such hiring in my peer group companies. They had placed the new hire with financial bent of mind having hands on experience with number of process automation Applications. I have seen blend of financial and IT focus to be 60:40 respectively with person having professional finance qualifications and certifications of some well-known IT products. This is a niche combination and is not easily available, so such candidates come with a premium of at least 20% than same level roles in the organization.   

I was hired to manage the finance transformation of my organization because I am am accountant with IT experience in my background. 

We do. More finance focused.

I have seen lot of digital transformation initiatives taken by lot of companies and they are hiring people accordingly. Mix of finance and IT background is definitely crucial for such positions.

We have leadership and team which looks after finance transformation. Its a newly hired team and they have blended talent from finance and IT background.