Most career conversations skip the hard parts. This one doesn't. Armen Aklian is a CPA and Controller who built his career inside tech companies, not firms. He’s seen big company growth at Zendesk, built the accounting function from scratch at ENDVR, and now he’s helping to shape the future of accounting and AI at Kinter.

In this first episode of The CFO Track, we sit down with Armen for a fireside chat about his career in tech, the lessons he's picked up along the way, and his honest take on where AI is actually taking the accounting profession.

The CFO Track is a series for controllers and finance leaders who want to see where the role is going and how they can get there. Every episode features a finance leader with an interesting path, sharing how they think, what they've learned, and what they'd do differently.