Chief Financial Officer

Use the Chief Financial Officer Test to screen applicants for analytic, problem-solving and strategic-thinking abilities, ethics, drive and capable of instilling confidence.

Identify high-performing leaders who can effectively evaluate, strategize and communicate financial activities for your organization’s stakeholders.

Purpose: The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Test can help you get the information you need to make a good hire by providing information about a candidate’s analytic, problem-solving and strategic-thinking abilities. Best-fit candidates will be ethical, assertive, driven and effective communicators, capable of instilling confidence.

What It’s Best Used For

This screening instrument is best used during the final recruitment phase or internal succession planning to identify high-performing financial leaders who can effectively evaluate, strategize, and communicate financial activities to stakeholders.

• Targeting Senior Finance Tiers: It is highly optimized for vetting top-level roles including Chief Financial Officers (CFO), Directors of Finance, Vice Presidents of Finance, and Comptrollers.
• Measuring Higher-Level Cognitive Power: The cognitive module ensures a candidate can comfortably generate new ideas, conceptualize complex corporate issues, and think logically through difficult, multi-layered business choices.
• Verifying Executive Temperament & Drive: It assesses functional behavioral traits to find leaders who are inherently ethical, assertive, highly driven, and capable of instilling immediate confidence in board members and investors.
• Optimizing the Final Selection Process: Hiring committees instantly receive a comprehensive online report detailing a graphical score map, a full transcript of the candidate’s typed thoughts, a list of developmental concerns, and a customized bank of suggested interview questions.

About the Test

• A general cognitive aptitude test assessing a candidate’s ability to generate new ideas, handle complex problems, think through difficult choices, and conceptualize issues.
• An open-ended, manager-level short answer section
• A set of personality dimensions assessing important and functional behavioral traits for the job.
• This test takes most candidates approximately 2 hours to complete.

Target Group

We recommend using this test for the following positions: CFO, Director of Finance, Vice President of Finance, Comptroller and any senior-level executive responsible for the financial actions and management of an organization.

What the Report Gives You

A graphical display of trait scores, a list of candidate’s narrative responses to the short answer section, a list of strengths and developmental concerns, and suggested interview questions.

Testing Process

Online personality testing can be done from any device with a reliable internet connection. The use of mobile phones is discouraged. Test results are provided immediately.

Options

Contact us to learn how we can customize the test content for your hiring process or the way information is presented in the report to meet your specifications. We can also help you validate an assessment for your workforce or establish company-specific scoring.

Sample Questions