HeyJaredHave A Crack
We're just 2 lads who have applied a backyard cricket attitude of 'having a crack' to our lives, our careers, and now a podcast.
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EP 17: We All Started in Audit — Here's What It Actually Taught Us (And When to Leave) (opens the original)
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100% of this panel started their careers in auditing — and they've got very different feelings about it. In this episode, Kevin, Ash, and Hubert (all Chartered Accountants) break down whether audit is the smartest way to launch a finance career, how long is too long, and whether they'd ever hire a career auditor onto their own teams. They get into: - Why 20–30% of accountants start in audit — and whether it's worth it - The 5 skills audit actually teaches you (fast business comprehension, contex
EP 16: "That's Not How It Works" — Why Operations Ignores Finance (opens the original)
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Ops doesn't ignore finance because they're difficult. They ignore finance because we keep showing up after the decision has already been made. In this episode of AccountDads, the boys unpack the gap between what finance reports and what operations actually does — and why that gap quietly wrecks your credibility as a business partner. We get into the month where margins "collapsed" and it turned out nobody had dropped the ball at all — leave hit 25% against a 20% budgeted average, revenue dropped
EP 15: Stop Chatting, Start Configuring: The Accountant's Guide to Setting Up Claude (opens the original)
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Most of us are driving a supercar in first gear. Same AI model, same power, but only a few finance leaders know how to actually configure it. In this episode, we walk through the exact setup I gave my own team: how to turn Claude from a glorified chatbot into a genuine thinking partner for your business. Accountants don’t have capability gaps if they put in the work…remember, you are already brilliant. You just need to work on configuring the tools at your disposal and spending time in them! Wha
EP 14: The 12 AI Workflows Aussie Finance Teams Are Actually Using (a recruiter asked 50 CFOs) (opens the original)
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"I don't think I'll ever hire a financial accountant again." That's a real CFO, talking to a real recruiter, about a real decision he's already made. Tom Hunter runs Story Recruitment and hosts The CFO Track. He spent months interviewing Australian finance leaders about how they're actually using AI — not the LinkedIn version — and packaged it into a free practical workflow guide. We sat down to go through it. 📄 Link to the AI in Finance — Practical Workflow Guide: https://www.linkedin.com/posts
EP 13 : From individual Contributor to Leader, What Were Our Learnings. (opens the original)
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This is a practical discussion based on real-world experience, not management theory. Based on the previous episode, the AccountDads reflect on areas such as organisation maturity, team, sporting reflections, recruiting to collaborating. What’s worked and what's not worked. You get the real insight from the leaders who have navigated their own paths and created their own styles.
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