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The CEO Financial Intelligence Program

Built for CEOs, CFOs and executives who want to lead with strategic financial insight and engineered performance. 

Through expert sessions, real-world cases, and a private executive community, you'll learn to connect the dots between vision and results, challenge financial assumptions, ask the right questions, and make confident decisions that drive enterprise value.

Founder

Financiario

Financiario delivers the financial foresight of a strategic CFO — automated into real-time dashboards — to unlock capital, drive growth, and lead with confidence.

Always know how today’s decisions impact cash flow, profitability, and long-term value — without the guesswork, spreadsheets, or delays.

Designed for mid-market companies, Financiario connects financial planning, forecasting, and reporting into one powerful, fully managed platform.

From multi-entity consolidations and scenario modeling to capital allocation and debt management, every dashboard and report is engineered to align financial performance with strategic objectives.

Experience real-time financial intelligence. Book a demo at Financiario.com.

Founder & CEO

OanaLabes.com

Hi, I'm Oana Labes.

As one of the top worldwide Linkedin content creators, my strategic finance content has been seen by over 140 million people over the past year.

My Linkedin following has grown to over 350,000 followers, and the business and finance Checklists and Cheat Sheets I created have been viewed and downloaded by millions of people worldwide.

My 'Cash Flow Masterclass' has transformed hundreds of careers and businesses and my Corporate Trainings have helped thousands of professionals around the world.

Join over 55,000+ people and subscribe to my free newsletter 'The Finance Gem 💎' to get strategic finance insights every Saturday and compound your impact & influence on in boardrooms and beyond.

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Founder & Content Creator

Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)

Founded in 2016, CFI is the world-leading provider of practical learning and productivity tools for finance and banking professionals. Powered by expert instructors, hands-on lessons, and proprietary technology, CFI delivers the skills, certifications, CPE credits, and resources to help anyone—from beginner to seasoned pro—drive their finance career.

Guest Writer

Profitability Analytics Center of Excellence

PACE is an independent, non-profit, community of professionals dedicated to developing ways for companies to strategically manage and improve revenue, cost, and investments using causal analytic models to help make better, more informed decisions and drive greater value creation.

Advisory Board Member

I enable the financing that supports the growth and success of growing businesses operating in the Manufacturing, Wholesale and Logistics space.  I also lead RBC’s relationship with my clients at the enterprise level; I oversee the overall risk monitoring process for my portfolio and actively manage the portfolio credit risk within the bank’s risk appetite.

Senior Commercial Manager - Supply Chain Industries

Commercial Manager / Technology Banking KBI

Holidays Inc.

After working in the industry for 6 years I founded a travel concierge business at the age of 23, and bootstrapped it to 1.3MM EUR in revenues, 13 employees and 2 offices over the course of 4 years. We partnered with Thomas Cook in Germany to gain exclusive access to the full travel offering of more than 70 of the world’s largest 70 wholesale operators including Thomas Cook, Neckerman, TUI, ITS, DERtour, Schauinsland or ITS. 

Our strategy focused on product leadership, customer service, and innovation, which helped to differentiate us in the local market and afforded us record high retention rates and customer referrals.

I used to think finance wasn’t rocket science — until I saw how many CEOs and companies get crushed by it.

Great products with solid margins - consistently struggling to engineer growth with proactive cash flow planning and smart capital allocation.

That’s when I realized: it’s not just about numbers — it’s about knowing what they mean, how to plan around them, and how to make decisions that actually build value.

That’s what I teach. And that’s what my company Financiario delivers.

📌 I’m a CPA, MBA, and Founder of Financiario — the only financial intelligence platform built to think, report, and advise like a CFO in real time — whether you have a CFO or not.

📌 My background:

→ 15+ years of mid-market capital expertise
→ $300M+ secured and deployed across growth, M&A, and enterprise value acceleration
→ Scaled hundreds of companies 10–20x by aligning capital, cash flow, and strategic planning

📌 I’m also:

→ A Top 10 U.S. LinkedIn Finance Creator
→ A LinkedIn Learning Instructor
→ Read weekly by 45,000+ CEOs and CFOs via The Finance Gem
→ Followed by 500,000+ worldwide across platforms

📌 I’ve taught over 5,000 leaders through:

→ The CEO Financial Intelligence Program – master the 20% of finance that drives 80% of results
→ The Cash Flow Masterclass – used by thousands to turn liquidity into leverage
→ The Financial Analysis Masterclass – helping leaders turn numbers into strategy

📌 Brand partners & highlights:

→ Oracle, SAP, HubSpot, Mercury, 
→ AFP speaker (largest finance conference in the world): 3 years running

If you’re a scaling company, ambitious executive, finance pro, or growing brand — I can help.

→ Follow me here, on IG and YouTube (coming soon)
→ Scale with me: Financiario.com
→ Learn with me: oanalabes.com
→ Reach me: hello@oanalabes.com

Oana Labes, MBA, CPA

Most CEOs are building strategy on Adjusted EBITDA.

But Operating Cash Flow is the number that tells the truth.

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Let’s talk about the most abused metric in finance:
Adjusted EBITDA.

On paper and in quarterly calls it looks impressive.

↳ Big number
↳ Solid growth story
↳ Great for pitch decks

But dig deeper, and it’s often nothing more than a sanitized version of the truth.

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Here’s what happens when the heat of real business pressure kicks in:

↳ Adjusted EBITDA: a full pan of spinach — puffed up with “one-time” add-backs

↳ EBITDA: a few wilted leaves left — still disconnected from actual cash

↳ Net income: the bare truth — what’s left after everyone else takes their share

↳ Operating cash flow: the real litmus test — what the business actually generates to reinvest, repay, and survive

Most CEOs are obsessed with EBITDA.
But it’s operating cash flow that fuels today and builds tomorrow.

Smart CEOs understand this:

✓ Adjusted EBITDA is easy to manipulate — operating cash flow isn’t
✓ EBITDA ignores working capital swings — OCF exposes them
✓ Operating cash flow shows what’s sustainable — not presentable

Because at the end of the day, only one number fuels:

Payroll
Debt repayment
Growth reinvestment
Dividend distribution
Breathing room in downturns

That number is Operating Cash Flow.

If you’re not tracking it religiously, and planning it carefully - you're in for some seriosu financial trouble.

This isn’t about becoming a CFO.

It’s about being a CEO who actually understands how value is created — and destroyed.

So here’s the question:

Are you managing by numbers that survive heat?
Or by metrics that evaporate when reality sets in?

📌 Want to transform your leadership, company and career?

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Strategic Growth Partnering

Business growth, strategy Finance, Strategic project leadership ,Risk Management and Governance. Consistently worked with top management to build an agile and cost competitive organisation thru strategic Project leadership .

Strategic growth 

Larsen &Taubro :  Executing Road & Irrigation projects Order value $ 9 billion

As a strategic  Finance partner to the business, I accelerated cost synergy capture by driving actions in  business to deliver over 4x expectations. I evolved FP&A practices to accelerate growth, mitigate risk, and improve customer success for new recurring revenue business models.

 Chief Finance Officer

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited:Fortune 300 Energy Corporate  

Leveraging extensive M&A/carve-out, portfolio transformation, and M&A synergy capture experience gained from involvement in 6 Carve-Outs/Spin-Offs, 6 Acquisitions, and 4 complex dispositions played an integral role in achieving global enterprise transformation. 

Acquisitions and establishment of new joint ventures include
Colas France - 
Total Energies -
South Asia LPG Company Pvt. Ltd. 
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. 
HPCL Biofuels Ltd.

Senior Manager Corporate Acquisitions 

Strategic growth

Global C suite leader; builds people, profits Organisations 20 plus years in strategic business growth,Finance, project leadership ,Risk Management and Governance.

Global experience over 20 plus years in business growth, strategy Finance, Strategic project leadership ,Risk Management and Governance. Consistently worked with top management to build an agile and cost competitive organisation thru strategic Project leadership for new projects driving cost reduction and higher profitability measures; passioned efforts to enhance Net Turnover Growth and Revenue Growth Management .I have proven track record in heading high value projects, stake holder management ;  proven leadership abilities to strategise and deliver a high value project yields.

Recent endeavours in partnering with top companies to drive profitable multi-year and annual revenue growth; Developing robust portfolio strategy and price architecture : and Providing pricing-related insights and perspective related to competitor activities, consumer trends and interactions between categories and across price segments



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