“Is she a CPA?”
“What experience does she have?”
I let others know what I knew and they seemed to like the idea of having Renee be our CFO.
“You know we talked about conflicts of interest during our last meeting,” I reminded the group.
“Yeah, so you’re declaring a conflict of interest?” of the partners asked.
“Yes.” I replied.
“Ok, how do we handle this?” Sylvie asked.
“If all of you are interested in Renee, I suggest that one of you call her and ask her for her resume then schedule a video interview. I should not be involved in the process. And, guys, if you decide that she’s not the right person, then no problem. I just want to assure all of you of that.”
I could see heads nodding and thumbs up signs popping up.
“Ok, looks like everyone’s in favor of that approach.”
Mark asked, “Who wants to make the approach? Does anyone know someone who has an accounting background?”
Sylvie volunteered to do the ask as her husband ran her books as well for his business also. She would ask him to review her resume also.
“Peter,” Sylvie asked, “Should we disclose that you are one of the partners?”
I thought about it for a nano-second, “Yeah, that needs to be disclosed up front. No secrets.”
Later that afternoon I was out in the backyard using my electric log splitter to break up some firewood for my fireplace. That made it so much easier than swinging an axe.
I picked up the split firewood and filled my wheelbarrow and was making my way back to my back porch when Renee walked out of her house.
“Hey Petey,” she said in greeting.
“Hey Renee,” I said in reply as I walked my wheelbarrow up to the house.
“So, I spoke with Sylvie a few minutes ago,”
“And?”
“And what are you trying to do?”
“Well, we have a need for a CFO and that seemed to be something you might be suited for.”
“Why?”
“Why not?”
“Just that….. I don’t like to take charity and you know that.”
I laughed, “It’s not charity. Our company does have a need for a CFO and you might be qualified to fill the vacancy. And besides, I’m not involved in the selection process.”
“You’re not? But Sylvie said that you’re the president of the company?”
“Yeah, but I’m not involved. Even though I’m supposedly in charge, that would be a conflict of interest. The only involvement that I’ve had was to suggest that you might be interested and that they should contact you if they wanted to follow up on the lead.”
“Ok. Thanks Peter. I guess I’ll email my resume.”
“Renee, if you have any reservations…… any reservations at all, then just tell Sylvie thanks but no thanks. It’s not going to be a problem.”
She nodded her head and walked back to her house.
Well, we did have a need for a CFO. That was not something made up just for her.
Later that afternoon I saw Sammi playing outside in their backyard, trying to make a snowman using the patches of snow that were left behind from the last snowfall.
“Hey, how’s it going Sammi?” I asked.
“Mr. Petey!” she screamed and ran over.
“Our house smells so much like Christmas with the tree! I am so excited!” she jabbered away.
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