14 | Acquisition International,Global CFO Excellence Awards 2024 Capco, a Wipro company, is a global management consultancy driving transformation in the financial services and energy industries. Capco leverages its profound knowledge of financial services across banking and payments, capital markets, wealth & asset management, insurance and energy, to drive critical transformation initiatives for its clients. Capco’s leadership encourages a diverse, Be Yourself at Work culture, entrepreneurialism, and a bold spirit of creativity. A wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro, Capco marries its market leading management consultancy know-how with Wipro’s extensive scale and technological expertise to offer true end-to-end transformation solutions to clients. Ben’s illustrious career has spanned several distinguished companies, including his role as CFO for Swiss-based wealth management fintech, Azqore and an 18-year tenure as CFO for Capgemini for business units across Asia, Europe, and America. Prior to his current role at Capco, Ben spent 18 months at Wipro as a global head of financial transformation and is focused on re-shaping financial processes and tools to provide crucial business insights and drive profitable growth. Ben describes himself as an activist CFO, focused on enabling operational results to support growth, profitability, and cash performance of the business. As a transformation leader, Ben understands the importance that individual talents and roles play in delivering impactful results, and as such, he aims to foster and celebrate excellence among teams. I believe in the power of simplicity, conveying a straightforward vision broadly to the organisation and establishing clear goals for everyone to rally around. Every person on my team understands Capco’s broader mission and we partner together to achieve success against our shared goals. In this sense, Ben’s role is about ensuring that Capco is on track to fulfil its mission, bringing teams in alignment with financial business objectives and measuring its success against key metrics. While compliance and accuracy must always come first, Ben says, “The Finance team must become a trusted partner to the business by understanding the levers of success and helping to anticipate risks and opportunities.” This proactive and developmental approach to his duties as CFO is helping to support Capco’s success. “Finance must convey a compelling and transparent message on goals and results,” he adds, “to bolster a culture of financial success.” Throughout Ben’s career, he has distilled the rule that his personal success is tied to the success of his company. His standard as CFO relies on how well he can facilitate Capco’s successful performance, and he has three major ambitions to help facilitate this success. First, he aims to build the best-in-class finance team and processes the company needs. Second, he is keen to help the business leverage the combined the strengths of Capco and parent company Wipro to create unique market value. Last, he aims to integrate innovative solutions into existing workflows to benefit both clients and internal teams. With regards to the future of Capco, as the business grows, the firm will continue to invest in its people and in offering clients bespoke solutions to help them to “leverage the opportunities offered by GenAI for both itself and its clients.” Ben shares, “I am very focused on creating synergies between Capco and Wipro commercially, operationally and in crafting innovative solutions.” This dedication to the company’s overall wellbeing, for the good of the industry and its many clients, makes Capco a standout choice for financial services and energy companies. Finally, Ben believes that Finance must be of the world and in constant contact with the business. “We must bring our functional power to the service of the business to protect the company’s assets and enhance long term shareholder value.” With high ambitions to build the Finance team for the future of Capco, supporting Capco and Wipro unique value proposition for clients, and leveraging GenAI to accelerate and enhance delivery for Capco and its clients, Ben’s position as CFO is vital to supporting the ongoing growth of the company. Capco is set to achieve an abundance of great things, and we’re proud to present Benjamin Simon with his title of Best Global Management Consulting CFO 2024 in our Global CFO Excellence Awards 2024. Here at Acquisition International, we strive to highlight the successes of individuals and businesses which make a huge difference to their industries through their unparalleled areas of expertise – and we’re sure to see both Benjamin and Capco continue to succeed. Contact Details Contact: Benjamin Simon Company: CAPCO Web Address: www.capco.com Best Global Management Consulting CFO 2024: Benjamin Simon Best Global Management Consulting CFO 2024: Benjamin Simon. ” Benjamin Simon, CFO of Capco, is building a distinguished career within the consulting sector, which is dynamic and constantly evolving. According to Ben, “Management consulting is in the middle of its most exciting transformation in 20 years due to changes in client requirements, GenAI and other industry trends.” Ben is helping to steer the company through this shift, helping Capco to maintain its focus on financial stability, domain expertise and relentless innovation. Acquisition International spoke with Ben to explore his success, how he aims to add value to the company, and his future goals. Best Global Management Consulting CFO 2024: Benjamin Simon ” “
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