The Two Step Process for Getting Business Buy-in For Stacked

‍Wondering how you can get your company to pay for Stacked tickets? Or maybe you’re wondering with current capacity how to justify the time out of work?

We get it.

It's tough running an in-house finance team and the people who work with you have a lot on their plates.

There's a lot of pressure to do more with less, but your finance team is the backbone of your business, the people who keep the wheels turning, no matter what. So making sure your team has the tools and expertise to do their jobs efficiently is essential.

That’s why we’re running the London in-house finance event, Stacked.

Here’s the two step process for getting buy-in from your business to attend Stacked.

Step 1: Frame The Problem & Your Why

Framing the problem and risk

• State the obstacle that’s currently slowing down your team. E.G. We don’t have the tools to deliver real-time data insights.
  

Establish a genuine, super relevant, and impossible-to-ignore change

• E.G. We’ve added 3 new entities to the business over the past 12-months which has our doubled workload
• E.G. Feedback from engagement surveys, eNPS, and exit interviews from finance team members.
  

Demonstrate the potential threat or opportunity

• E.G. You don’t have the capacity/resources to assign to the company priorities that matter the most.
• E.G. No clear place to go to or anyone to speak to get advice on how to solve the problems you’re facing.
• E.G. Opportunity to learn about new innovations to save the finance team time and money.
  

Provide stats to make it tangible

• Show the risk of inaction is greater than the risk of action. E.G. If you were to increase the team by 5% to solve this problem: Hiring Cost > Cost of your Stacked ticket + Solution.
  

The high cost of inaction: On average, it costs anywhere from half to two times an employee's annual salary to hire someone. Let's do the maths: if the average salary is around £45,112 (which is about average for an in-house finance employee in London in 2024), and you've got to add two new team members to handle the manual workload of your finance function., that could cost you £180,448 over the next year. Ouch.

On the flip side, you could go to Stacked and learn of a new tool, process or innovation to drastically reduce your manual workload and the need for the additional headcount for only £99 a ticket using the discount below. Now that’s ROI.

Step 2: Anticipate and overcome objections

E.G. Fear of time to value - “Do we have the bandwidth to attend this?”

‍If your team is busy then that is exactly why you should attend Stacked. Not only is a team day out of the office great for morale, the conference is designed to educate you on how to streamline and improve the efficiency of your finance function with the best tips, tools and skills.

E.G. Fear of no ROI - “How do we know it’s actually worth attending?”

‍It’s the first Stacked event, so how do you know it’ll be any good? Well, we may be biased, but we believe some things are guaranteed to provide value. Such as learning from the likes of ex-Depop CFO, Angel investor and advisor, Francois Callens, or meeting 100s of like-minded in-house finance leaders scaling with Xero, or exploring the best-of-breed apps in a sales-free environment.

Don’t fall into the trap of saving a quick buck and miss out on finding out how to tangibly optimise your current tech stack and ways of working.

Businesses that do will find themselves playing catch-up, whilst the companies that plan ahead of the tech curve and grow their best talent will come out stronger than those who didn’t.

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