Pros
We have a new CEO who has inspired confidence with investors and employees early out of the gate; however the confidence created is mitigated for skilled talented employees by rumours of massive layoffs within a few months.
Cons
I concur with all other employee posts on this site on employee experience in the past. What I will do as a front line employee, if Alex happens to read this, is give him a list of senior leader incompetence for the Finance Group (my hope is that other non- finance groups can do the same as I’m sure Alex is getting a lot of face time right now by the greatest political players we have). Alex, please transform the finance group by removing ALL of the VP’s reporting to the CFO as they all have various reasons for being removed. I couldn’t post names or job titles for confidentiality purposes, but see if you can guess who each of these CFO direct reports/VP’s are: 1) Incompentent in finance and accountable for the bad deal with Conoco 2) Biggest bully in the company and a hands off leader - ask any of his accounting people if they don’t fold due to culture of fear 3) The #2 to the Bully above and does not do anything to lead the planning function 4) Nice but she does not know anything about finance despite being in finance) 5) figure head and lacks experience but compensates with a good team Special shout out to our Scottish Exec of Upstream.. listen to last years budget call as it saves me from typing further. Let’s not forget the culturally unforgettable ‘Big Z’ as well!