Chief Financial Officer - CFO
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Chief Financial Officer; also, more rarely: Chief Fun Officer. If there were CFO scratch-and-sniff stickers, they'd probably smell like money. That's what CFOs take care of. (Stickers for CMOs would smell like snake oil and those for Board Chairs would smell like liniment).
Companies basically hire CFOs to count the money. These pros collect and share information about historical and current financial data, make decisions about what to do with a company's money now (including where to invest it), and make projections about what's likely to happen to a company's finances in the future. The Wall Street Journal tells us they're not just bean counters.