Our Integrator also sits in the Head of Finance seat on our Accountability Chart, and we cannot afford a full-time CFO yet. How do we prevent her daily financial execution tasks from completely crowding out her leadership and integration responsibilities?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

It is common in growing companies for your Integrator to temporarily hold another seat, such as Head of Finance. The danger is that urgent financial tasks, like payroll, invoicing, and bill payments, will always crowd out the important but non-urgent work of leading, managing, and holding people accountable.

To solve this, your Integrator must ruthlessly separate her two seats. On your Accountability Chart, these are two distinct boxes with completely different roles. When she is wearing her Integrator hat, she is focused on team execution, L10 meetings, and resolving cross-functional friction. When she is wearing her Finance hat, she is focused on cash flow and bookkeeping.

To prevent her from being consumed by financial execution, she must delegate the lower-value tasks. She should look to hire a part-time bookkeeper or a virtual assistant to handle invoicing, bill payments, and data entry. This keeps her in the high-level decision-making seat for Finance while freeing up her capacity to run the business.

We must also track this transition. Set a clear revenue or headcount trigger on your V/TO® that dictates exactly when you will hire a full-time finance leader. This keeps the organization focused on permanently solving the capacity issue so your Integrator can focus entirely on driving operational performance.