Finance, HR, and Recruiting each maintain their own headcount number. None of them agree.
The gap looks harmless in Q1. By Q2, it is showing up in your variance report: missed forecasts, recruiting cycles that don't match what was approved, and uncomfortable conversations with Execs. The problem is that three teams are making the same decisions in three different systems, on three different cadences, with three different definitions of what counts as a hire.
In this 30-minute session, Arthi Chordia, former FP&A leader at DocuSign and Eventbrite and now an independent consultant specializing in workforce planning, walks through the playbook she has used to align Finance, HR, and Talent on a single, defensible number. She will cover where misalignment hides, what “good” looks like across people, process, and systems, the change management work that has to happen before any tool gets bought, and what each function gets back once the plan, the org chart, and the pipeline finally tell the same story.
What you'll leave with
- A diagnostic to surface where your three teams disagree today.
- A framework for the approvals and operating rhythm that closes the gap.
- A clear view of the ROI Finance, HR, and Recruiting can expect once alignment is real.
- A copy of Arthi's Top 5 Headcount Reports, the practical reporting set she recommends to every client, covering active headcount, approved versus open roles, slippage, drift, and forecast versus plan.
