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Editor's letter - You're still in control.
(From Financial Director)
There's an old adage that the difference between an introvert actuary and an extrovert actuary is that an extrovert actuary will stare at your shoes. Cruel - and not a syllable of truth in it, I'm sure. But it was the imagery we had in mind while working on the cover for this month's feature on the changing role of the financial controller: unseen, unappreciated, and burdened with the hard, number-crunching, technically demanding but ultimately vastly unglamorous jobs that more and more FDs want to leave behind so they can concentrate on strategy and planning and value creation - and perhaps even a draft CV that has "CEO" written at the bottom of the page.
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