- TaxForce Staff
- Tuesday, September 16, 2025
In today’s finance organizations, the walls are coming down. Traditional silos between tax, treasury, FP&A, and reporting are blurring as leaders take on expanded responsibilities.
In our April 2025 TaxNotes TaxPulse article, Breaking Down Finance Silos: A New Era for Tax Leadership, executives from Disney, Perrigo, and Carrier all described how their roles now stretch well beyond tax. That shift is reshaping leadership requirements — and creating an urgent need for talent who can “speak across silos.”
Why CFOs and HR Can’t Wait for Rotations to Deliver
Most large companies understand the need to develop interdisciplinary leaders. Some, like Carrier, are intentionally rotating employees across tax, treasury, and FP&A to prepare future CFOs. But this takes years. Talent pipelines rarely keep pace with today’s disruptions—new tax regimes, ESG requirements, supply chain shocks, and AI adoption.
For CFOs and HR leaders, the question is pressing: what happens while waiting for those rotations to mature? Leaving gaps in cross-functional fluency can stall transformation, amplify risk, and drain senior leadership bandwidth.
Interim Tax Leadership as a Strategic Lever
This is where interim tax leadership changes the equation. Firms like TaxForce provide access to senior tax leaders with broad backgrounds spanning multiple finance functions. These professionals don’t need years of seasoning inside your company to connect the dots. They arrive already fluent in the languages of treasury, FP&A, reporting, and risk.
Engaging interim leaders means you can:
- Bridge silos immediately. They unify finance teams, establish one version of the truth, and align reporting before discrepancies create scrutiny.
- Stabilize during transition. Whether between permanent hires or during reorgs, interim leaders ensure continuity and credibility with auditors, investors, and boards.
- Accelerate transformation. They mentor internal staff while modeling how to operate across functions — so your permanent talent gains cross-functional exposure sooner.
Interim vs. Permanent Tax Hire: Complementary, Not Competing
CFOs often wonder: is bringing in an interim leader a stopgap that delays permanent hiring? The reality is the opposite. Interim vs. permanent tax hire is not an either/or. Interims protect the enterprise in the short term and create breathing room to make the right long-term appointment.
Meanwhile, they prepare your rising leaders to succeed in expanded roles. The best interim leaders are natural coaches — they build bridges, not just fill seats.
Why Now Is the Time to Act
Finance transformation isn’t slowing. From Pillar Two minimum tax rules to new ESG disclosures, the demands on finance leaders grow broader every year. As Perrigo’s Sonia Hollies put it, “We don’t want just good tax people anymore. We want good business people.”
Fractional CFO support and interim tax leadership give organizations agility to meet this standard today—not five years from now. They let CFOs and HR ensure stability, speed, and succession without compromising compliance.
The Takeaway for HR and Finance Leaders
If your company is waiting for internal development to bridge silos, you may already be falling behind. Interim tax leaders are the catalyst to unify teams, protect the enterprise, and prepare the next generation.
TaxForce was built for this moment — helping CFOs and HR leaders transform talent strategy while navigating disruption. With the right interim expertise, you can bridge today’s finance silos and future-proof leadership for tomorrow.
