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Robert Alvarez is a two-time winner of the Austin Business Journal’s “CFO of the Year”. Hear how he gained efficiency and control by eliminating manual …
Updated: October 26, 2021
Robert Alvarez is a two-time winner of the Austin Business Journal’s “CFO of the Year”. Hear how he gained efficiency and control by eliminating manual processes and having access to reporting that is real-time and actionable. Working with Consero has been so effective that this CFO would never build his own finance department to manage back-office and technology resources again.

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