3 Ways Finance Can Help Their Companies Navigate 2021
We’ve entered a new year with a lot of uncertainty still ahead. Workday President and CFO Robynne Sisco shares how finance leaders can help the broader business navigate uncharted waters.
Robynne Sisco
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Robynne Sisco
Robynne Sisco is vice chair at Workday with a focus on building and strengthening relationships with global finance leaders to help build preference for Workday and expand the company’s footprint within the office of the chief financial officer (CFO).
Robynne, who joined Workday in 2012, previously served as co-president and led the company’s finance, global procurement, and internal audit organizations. Prior to that, Robynne spent nearly six years as CFO and, before that, served as chief accounting officer. Prior to joining Workday, Robynne was chief accounting officer and corporate controller at VMware, served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer at VeriSign, and served as assistant controller at Oracle. She also held senior finance roles at Visa, General Electric, and Ford. Robynne has served on the board of directors for Unity Technologies since 2017 and for Lyra Health since 2021.
Robynne holds a master of business administration degree in finance from Golden Gate University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from Claremont McKenna College.
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Navigating Your Organization Through Uncertainty
With so many unknowns on the horizon, it can be very challenging for organizations to plan ahead. Workday Co-President and CFO Robynne Sisco discusses the importance of agility and transparency in times of uncertainty.
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3 Key Ingredients of M&A Success
Many companies have mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on their radar in 2020. Robynne Sisco, co-president and CFO at Workday, identifies key factors for M&A success based on our own experiences acquiring Adaptive Insights and Scout RFP.
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CFO Perspective: How to Think About Innovation and Risk
Innovation requires companies to step outside of their comfort zone. Workday Co-President and CFO Robynne Sisco shares four key things to think about when weighing the risk-versus-reward nature of innovation.
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Built from the Ground Up: Announcing Workday’s New Headquarters
Today we’re celebrating the opening of our new Workday Headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif., with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Here's how we designed the property to support our core values.
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Workday CFO: How Businesses Can Plan for Uncertainty
In 2019, businesses can plan on one certainty: uncertainty. Workday Co-President and CFO Robynne Sisco discusses two key areas that finance teams and business leaders should be focused on this year.
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A Top Priority for Today’s CFO: Having Confidence in Your Data
While there is more data available than ever before, many companies and their finance teams struggle with how to use it effectively. Workday Co-President and CFO Robynne Sisco explains how having a single source of truth empowers managers with data, provides richer insights, and improves business partnerships and conversations.
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Workday CFO: How I Think About Developing Today’s Finance Team
Having the right skill sets and backgrounds is important, but even more fundamental to success is having a finance team culture that embraces change and is focused on innovation. Robynne Sisco explains how she's worked to develop this mindset with her team.
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Why Agility Is Key to the CFO Role in 2018
How will the CFO role change in 2018? Robynne Sisco, chief financial officer at Workday, explains why CFOs and their teams must be able to help their organizations navigate all of the broad-sweeping changes on the horizon with both organizational and individual agility.
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Why Hard Lessons Are Often the Best Ones
Workday CFO Robynne Sisco shares lessons she's learned on her career path, including the importance of building a team based on trust.
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The CFO’s Critical Role in Driving Corporate Culture
CFOs have an enormous impact on corporate culture, and how well they handle that responsibility directly impacts the overall organization. Read more on the intersection of finance and culture in this post from Workday CFO Robynne Sisco.
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Workday CFO: Why Workday Is Among the First to Adopt the New Revenue Recognition Standard
Workday has adopted the new revenue recognition standard ASC 606 a full year before required, and believe we are the first software company to do so. Here's how we did it, and what we learned along the way.
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Collaboration Among the CFO, CHRO, and CIO
In this episode of Work Talk, I joined Workday's Chief People Officer and Chief Information Officer to discuss the importance of our tight partnership, and to share our tips on how leaders of finance, HR, and IT can foster closer collaboration in the year ahead.
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What the CEO Cares About, and How the CFO Can Help
We do CEOs care most about? We studied several recent CEO surveys to find the answer. Workday's Robynne Sisco discusses the four priorities that most directly impact the CFO.
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Hire Finance People Who Welcome and Embrace Change
Contrary to popular belief, there's never a dull moment in finance. Your ability to manage constant change starts with hiring the right finance people. Read more from Workday CFO Robynne Sisco.
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Business Leadership Tip: Take Advantage of Workday’s Built-In Dashboards
Workday Chief Accounting Officer Robynne Sisco shares her favorite tools for using data to work quickly and make the best business decisions in a fast moving world.
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Auditing Forward: How the Auditor’s Role is Changing and Why
Kendall Tieck, Workday’s VP of Internal Audit, shares how financial auditing can serve a greater purpose by also contributing to business planning and strategy.
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Chief Accounting Officer POV: Using Workday to Grow Your Business
Workday's Chief Accounting Officer Robynne Sisco just returned from helping to open new markets in Europe. She shares how Workday Financial Management turned a 6-month job into a 30-minute project.
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Chief Accounting Officer POV: How Finance in the Cloud Simplifies Accounting Compliance
As finance professionals, among the most important—and daunting—aspects of our jobs is accounting compliance. Every person on the finance team has a role in maintaining a strong control environment and supporting the audit process. At the same time, the accounting regulatory environment has become much more complex and stringent in recent years. Accounting standards are constantly being revised, and even when there's considerable lag time before changes take effect, we often spend months or years preparing for those changes.
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Chief Accounting Officer POV: 4 Ways the Cloud Changes Business Analytics Forever
In my last post, I gave examples of how a cloud-based finance system built on a modern technology architecture makes many of my core responsibilities as a chief accounting officer significantly easier. Perhaps the most important benefit I’ve realized is that I now have time to focus on more strategic initiatives, such as delivering insights to the business.
