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Hilary S Richards
VP Analyst
As a Vice President Analyst in Gartner's Finance Practice, Hilary Richards advises senior finance leaders on critical issues facing their organizations and assists them in translating best demonstrated practices into action in their respective teams. Hilary brings these recommendations to life in one-on-one and group interactions with Gartner clients and is a regular presenter at Gartner conferences.
Hilary's areas of specialty include finance talent, evolving competencies for financial analysts and accountants, accounting department productivity, and finance department structure.
Previous experience
In previous roles at Gartner, Hilary was a Project Manager/Research Manager and co-authored more than 35 major best practices and benchmarking reports on topics selected by clients to help senior finance executives improve effectiveness and productivity of accounting processes, organizational design, and tax accounting, risk and planning.
She also presented and conducted live training engagements for senior Accounting, Tax, and Finance Shared Services executives across diverse sectors and geographies. She traveled to client sites to host executive education sessions for finance leadership teams, providing insight into best practices on accounting and tax process improvement, finance transformation and finance talent development. Hilary moderated roundtable forums with Controllers, Heads of Finance Shared Services, and Heads of Tax from Fortune 500 corporations.
Areas of coverage
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Finance Function Strategy and Organizational Design
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Finance Talent
Education
Master of Business Administration, Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., Magna Cum Laude
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Digital Finance Talent
Finance Function Organization Design
Finance Competency Model
Reducing Change Fatigue and Increasing Engagement