The CFO Confidence Paradox: What the Data Reveals About Global Hiring Risk and Readiness

About This Recording

Nearly every CFO says their organization is confident in its ability to manage global hiring. The data tells a more complicated story.

Safeguard Global surveyed 400 CFOs across the US and UK to understand how finance leaders are navigating global hiring strategy, compliance exposure, and cross-border workforce risk. What they told us, and what the numbers behind their answers reveal, paints a picture many finance leaders will recognize but few have seen put so plainly: a widening gap between how prepared they believe they are and how costly global hiring mistakes become.

That gap has a name. We call it the CFO Confidence Paradox.

In this on-demand webinar, Andrew Philp, CFO of activpayroll, and Timothy VanRavenswaay, former CFO and CEO of Richelieu Foods, join Safeguard Global CMO Lisa Farrar to examine the 2026 CFO Confidence Paradox study in depth, discussing where confidence is well-founded, where it’s obscuring real risk, and what organizations that are getting it right are doing differently. The conversation is candid, data-driven, and built for finance and global hiring leaders who want to move beyond assumptions and into action.

You'll Hear Insights On

• Why CFO confidence in global hiring doesn’t always translate to readiness, and what the gap costs
• How US and UK finance leaders are approaching global hiring risk differently
• The compliance and operational pressure points most likely to catch organizations off guard
• What high-performing organizations are doing to close the confidence-to-readiness gap

Host

Lisa Farrar

Chief Marketing Officer, Safeguard Global

Speaker

Andrew Philp

Chief Financial Officer, activpayroll

Speaker

Timothy VanRavenswaay

Former CFO & CEO, Richelieu Foods