Workday Champions the changemakers driving agile, insight-led business transformation with their sponsorship of the Strategy Execution category at the 2025 CFO Awards.
At the 2025 CFO Awards, the Strategy Execution Award honours finance leaders who have successfully adapted their organisations to shifting demands and challenges through timely and agile responses. The winner has implemented new strategies with the help of their finance team, providing valuable insights and analyses, reallocated assets and aligned finance functions with the strategy. The awards honours a CFO who has demonstrated great leadership in creating the right financial conditions to execute the strategy while keeping the business financially healthy and competitive.
Workday, a global leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, is the proud sponsor of this prestigious award category at the 2025 CFO Awards.
The sponsorship, says Kiv Moodley, country director at Workday South Africa, reflects Workday’s deep alignment with the modern CFO’s evolving role as a strategic partner to the CEO and a driver of organisational transformation. “Our interest in sponsoring the CFO's Strategy Execution Award comes from a place of deep alignment. The title of this award perfectly captures the evolution of the CFO. The role of the CFO has fundamentally changed. It has expanded far beyond traditional financial stewardship and reporting.
Today’s most successful CFOs are strategic partners to the CEO, a changemaker who is central to driving business performance and growth,” he says.
The award, “champions the very leaders we are built to empower”, Kiv explains, as Workday’s unified platform for finance and HR is designed to give CFOs the single, in-the-moment source of truth they need to both build the strategy and execute on it with confidence. “Sponsoring this award is our way of celebrating the finance visionaries who are successfully navigating this new landscape and setting the standard for leadership,” he says. Through this sponsorship, the company celebrates finance visionaries who are redefining leadership in an ever-changing world.
“For Workday, being a ‘partner’ is at the heart of our identity, and sponsoring this award is a direct expression of that commitment,” he says.
“It means championing our shared vision. We don’t just provide software; we provide a partnership in transformation. This sponsorship means we are actively investing in the finance community and celebrating its successes. It signifies our shared belief that a best-in-class, strategic finance function is the engine of a successful modern enterprise.
Kiv also emphasises that the award recognises excellence in not only a well-structured strategy, but also a well-executed one. “As a company, we understand that a brilliant strategy is only as good as its execution. This award honours the leaders who have done the hard work of turning vision into value. It’s one thing to have a plan; it’s another to have the systems, data and leadership to adapt that plan in a volatile world. We partner with CFOs to provide that agility and this award celebrates the leaders who use it to its fullest potential.”
The importance of this, Kiv says, is that “when CFOs are successful, their organisations thrive. By sponsoring this award, we are not just celebrating an individual’s achievement; we are elevating the role of the strategic CFO across the entire industry. It demonstrates our commitment to empowering finance leaders with the insights and agility they need to be the changemakers their organisations demand”.
He says that Workday is “proud to stand with the best and brightest finance leaders who are shaping the future of business”.
