financial officer
- noun
- /fəˈnænʃəl ˈɔfɪsər/
- The chief financial officer is responsible for ensuring that all company funds are accounted for and properly allocated.
- chief financial officer
So your, your, your financial officer is spending all their time on what this expense and that expense and where this went where that went.
- So your, your, your financial officer is spending all their time on what this expense and that expense and where this went where that went.
- So I'm the secretary Treasurer, which is the chief financial officer of the AFLCIO.
- And actually our chief financial officer walked into the room and said I'm leaving, I'm out of here.
Examples
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The 46-year-old Fix joined the port as chief financial officer in 2008.
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Important roles, to be sure, but still not the same as directors, chief financial officers or chief executives.
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So, uh, if anyone wants to be chief financial officer...
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Key leadership positions include a chief executive officer, chief academic officer, chief financial officer, and chief student affairs officer.
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Let's call our new hire Florence, and she is your new Financial Officer for your organization.
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You were the chief financial officer at Miramax.
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Women who work as chief financial officers, for example, make just 77 cents for every dollar their male peers bring in.
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Victoria D. Harker is the chief financial officer of Gannett Co. Inc., a large newspaper company.
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Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend, Diana Taylor, was once LIPA's chief financial officer.
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Kristin Sherman was the chief financial officer at Marcadia Biotech.
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Synonyms
A person who manages money and pays bills for a group or company
A senior manager who manages a company's money, plans budgets, and reports results
A senior manager who looks after a company's money, makes budgets, and prepares financial reports
A person who keeps and checks a company's financial records
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'financial' (related to money) and 'officer' (a person in an organizational role), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this refers to an officer who manages finances. This role+domain noun phrase is a common and cross-linguistically regular pattern, making the MWE immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Financial officer comes from putting together financial, meaning 'about money', and officer, meaning 'an official who has duties'. Picture an official in an office who counts and protects the company's money, so financial officer means 'a person in charge of the company's funds'.