Yeah. Hi. My name is Ray Langham. I'm the CFO of In Contact. We are a cloud based provider of technology for call centers. Becoming a CFO, took many, many years are pretty long path. About 20 years to get to the CFO seat. My career started in accounting for Ernst and Young in the tax side of the practice. Then did various jobs at different companies where I was a tax guy. I was an accounting guy. I did FPA, and treasury work. Overall trying to get a well rounded breath of understating around finance and then I was able to take the step to be a CFO. That's basically my story in a nutshell.

so I don't have a set work responsibilities or a schedule being a CFO. You sort of are in a lot of different things every day in every week that are totally different than the last week paid upon what goes on. I mean, there is the basis of the financial forecasting and budgeting process, trying to understand how to make your business run better. But we are sort of that right hand man to the CEO, and he pulls us in different situations that happen all the time. Also, there's always emergency. There's always fire drills, always problems out there, and we're, you know, part of that help to to get that done. My my working hours are are varied, you know, Obviously, if I'm on vacation, it's very low. Actually, I still work when I'm on vacation. Maybe it's only an hour or two where I'm just doing some email, catching up on things, keeping things moving. Um, I never have 100%. I'm away from the office. It's it's it. I guess you could look at it as good or bad, but it's great that we have technology allows me to keep in contact, no matter where I am in the world and that Ah, when I come back, I'm not stuck with 1000 emails trying to get buried out of where I am. So I would say, on average, probably my work week is 50 to 60 hours.

you know what's great with my role is that I don't use any systems, you know? Sort of like the oracles, the essay peas. Ah, you know Ah, you know, people. People on my teams use those systems. Ah, lot. We also use systems like adaptive, which is our financial planning tools. Ah, various building tools, all kinds of business objects. You Ah ah, you know what they call him be I business intelligence tools, but but it's so I am not I don't have to worry about that. I have used them a lot in the past, but now I don't. The favorite tool for finance, though, is excel. Ah, For people coming up in the in the career path, you have to be an excel guru. We we rely upon that we actually test people as they come in for job interviews within our finance side just to make sure that they have ah, very high level of proficiency with excel