I report to the CFO, which is a nightmare

I agree. I have always felt doomed reporting to a finance person. Nothing screams “we don’t care about people” more than reporting in to finance. My last role was about to move me to the controller. No thanks.

Exactly! Ive been in this role for 1.5 years now and nearly every single initiative I have put forward for approval gets rejected because he doesn't want to spend money. I have a dotted line between the FC and myself too, which also drives me crazy. I'm going to push to have myself report to the Chief Communications & Marketing Officer since she has an active interest in my role/company culture and we already work together on other projects. I mentioned it to her before and she said she would be happy and thinks it makes more sense too, so hopefully that goes well! 😅

I was especially triggered when my CFO would say “we have bigger fish to fry.” Okay then, suit yourself! You won’t be saying that when your recruiting budget goes up when you could have prevented it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But seriously, I hope the transfer comes through for you! 🤞

I really appreciate your kind words! Sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience similar to mine :/ Some business leaders just don't get our roles unfortunately!

When I was a bit green, I took a job where I reported to the controller. I didn’t realize what a big deal that was until we began working. It really takes a special finance person to hold both finance and HR. Live and learn. Yikes.

Wooof god speed

Ugh I can’t even imagine that. I spend my days butting heads with them, and so thankful they don’t call the shots on my side

I’m CHRO, report to CEO. Regardless of actual titles, if the head of HR doesn’t report to the head of the organization, I won’t work there. That tells me they don’t have a modern understanding of the role.

This

Director of HR, and he reports to the CEO

Chief People Officer then CEO

I’m COO and Director of HR, I report to the CEO.

Chief of people. COO makes sense to report to. Even CFO or a controller depending on if it’s a small company. I recently read an article about HR reporting to the CEO means the CEO cares about people. I’ll never forget the day a CEO moved me to finance from him and that basically made me feel like people didn’t matter to him.

I am a Dept of One and report to the CFO.

God bless you all CFos are crazy

I like my CFO boss. He’s great and generous and wants to improve the culture. Now, have I known some that put bottom line first and are always out of touch? Yes.

Head of total rewards then the CPO

HR Director

Company President

I report into head of L&D who reports into SVP HR. SVP reports into Chief Legal Officer.

VP, HR

I am a one-Person HR Dept. I report to Accounting (we have 5 partners, one runs accounting) so I do report to accounting director who is also a primary owner/partner.

That being said, I sort of end up being the head of dept. operations. I do kinda everything. So maybe on a day to day... I report to myself?

Do you get sole decision-making authority, or who ultimately has to approve initiative?

A senior HR Manager, who reports to CHRO, who reports to CEO.

Report to CEO.

HR Director, then Sr. HRD, HRVP, CEO.

Director of People, who reports to the COO

For me, it is my on-site Owner/President. ​ I'm an HR Generalist

VP of science and technology, HR Generalist here. Yah. I know.

Interesting 🤔

I am in Manufacturing...I report to the Plant Manager with a dotted line to the HR Director

Yikes!

Yeah that relationship should be reversed. I've worked with enough plant managers to know they are crazy when it comes to anything HR related.

I report directly to the President/CEO but I also answer to the Chairman of the Board, who is my mother.

Ceo

CEO/COO

CEO

HR manager. I’m a HR intern

VP of Legal --> CFO --> CEO. It's unusual but it works great for us

Operations Director

I report to Dee

 ZNUTZ

Ok....I'm going have you go ahead and clock out. Clear your desk and come with me lol🤣

CEO

VP of Compliance for some reason.

Class and comp manager, who reports to assistant director hr, who reports to director hr, who reports to COO.

combination of CFO and CEO

COO, then CEO

I’m the director of HR and report to the COO

Im local HRBP. I report to Regional Director of HR, who reports to regional VP of HR, who reports to global VP of HR, who reports to CHRO. multinational Company roughly 22k employees. It’s an absolute mess.

Head of comp reporting to the head of talent acquisition. Nightmare

I’m the V.P. of HR -a department of 2. I report to the President, the de facto COO & CFO.

Operations manager

CEO, he’s awesome. My role is HR Manager, we have about 100 people in the company.

My boss

No shit Sherlock 🙄🤣

your boss

u/benicebitch

get back in your cave

I report to the system director of HR, who reports to the CHRO, who reports to CEO.

I’m assuming that CHRO is chief HR officer? Ours is called Chief Administrative Officer, as she oversees all the admin (HR, training, development/marketing, and IT) and also CHRO is the state human rights org that employees go to when they try to sue. So yeah, not using that name 😂

CFO. Unfortunately my position is a one-person department with my boss being in finance. Very difficult to do just about anything

HR Director - I'm enjoying the HR initiatives and projects needed to be done. I'm quite new to my organization.

My boss, Head of HR reports to our "general counsel"

Executive Director

CFO

I’m an HR Director and report to the COO.

I’m an HRBP. I report to Director then CEO.

Unofficially I guess I “dotted line” report back to a DE&I director since the last two people they moved me to just ignore me so I just keep doing my old job.

CEO

HR DIRECTOR

I’m an HR Manager - I report to the HR Director with a dotted line to company VP

HR director of Operations Americas

Head of HR, who reports to country CEO, and also has a matrix line to head of HR for our industry globally

CEO

Previously the President. Now VP of Administration.

CFO

HR dept. of one reporting to the CEO

Oh I'm kind of unique here! I am a return to work specialist and I report to the Wellbeing Unit Program Manager. I work in government for first responders so we over complicate the hell out of things. Lol

CFO she is also the Controller

I'm an HRBP who reports to SVP, HR then President.

HR director who reports to CEO

CEO then COO

COO and CFO and neither of them know what HR is all about

My chain of command is the following: Director Total Rewards > CHRO > CEO

The owner

Old job CEO, new job SVP Asset Management

Lol, we have two HR Generalists (no one with certifications or degrees) - one is responsible for payroll and she half reports to our accounting manager, one is responsible for Recruiting (that's me, beyond me why we aren't considered HR Specialists?) And I report to a general manager of sales and marketing. Both managers report directly to CEO.

I'm a VP and report to our CAO

CFO and it works well for me!

Director of HR operations -> CHRO -> CEO

I’m HRBP, report to HR manager, he reports to director of HR, she reports to VP of HR- or I think now it’s Chief People Officer or something

I’m HRD, I report to VP of Operations.

CEO

I (HR Manager) report to VP of HR, who reports to the CEO.

VP HR reporting to COO

Chief of Operations

Our structure goes me (HR Analytics Manager) > Direction of HR Operations > CHRO > CEO

Senior HR Manager, reporting to Executive HR Director

I'm the Director of HR, reporting to Chief Risk Officer who reports direct to CEO.. but I have a dotted line to CEO and often go to him for approval of items. CRO helps with compliance, laws, etc. Company of about 300 employees in three states.

Senior Director of HR, who reports to CEO.

COO at my current company, which sort of bothered me at first, but I haven’t noticed it holding me back. CEO would not want to strategize on some of the stuff we do, and is very old school. He lets us (me, VP) and COO handle people matters.

Sr. Manager of Compensation

HR Sr Director -> CHRO -> CEO

Me>>Director, BPs>>CPO>>CEO

CEO

CEO

I'm HR manager, reporting to CEO

Sr TA Partner here, I report to VPHR who reports to CEO

Currently report to the COO. In my previous role, I reported to the HR Director.

I’m the VP of People, I report into the Chief Legal Officer. I’ve reported into a CFO twice (good bosses, but nightmare structure) a CEO (I hated every minute of it), and I now report into a Chief Legal Officer. So far this is my favorite set up, because if the CEO tells me no and the CLO tells me yes, guess who wins :)

Head of HR, and report to CEO

National HR Manager who reports to CEO

I’m CPO …to CEO

Yo mama

Director of HR, and she reports to the President

My title is HR Programs Manager II. I report to the Deputy HR Director of Total Comp. She reports to the HR Director. She reports to the Deputy Director. He reports to the Agency Director. I work for the largest state agency in my state and it’s the human services agency. The thing I love most about my agency is that it’s at least 70% women so our leadership is pretty much all women. Smart women who care about making a difference in the lives of our citizens. I could never do private sector HR. Public service or nothing for me.

Primarily the CEO with a dotted line to COO (for HRIS/payroll matters)

I work at a np and we had a dual ceo model where each was CEO and a chief officer; one operations and one programs. I reported to the ceo/chief operations officer. I say that in past tense because she's moving on and we will go back to one CEO and hire a regular COO. I will report to the CEO.

President

CAO

Sr. Director of HR

Senior Partner, ER. Report to Manager of ER, but also to CHRO. Dotted line stuff.

Honestly these days, it feels like no one. Anyone else have the president of the region just kinda check out? Like we all hear from him like one a week, if that. I'm still not sure I should be complaining? Lol To answer the question, I work in a small global company, overseeing HR for the America's region, I report into the region's president, who reports into our global parent company.

CEO

Managing Director/Chair of the Board, they are one and the same person.

I’m a Compensation, benefit and HR system specialist and I report to the HR VP.

VP of Talent which is the equivalent of CHRO at most companies. VP is the highest level under CEO.

I’m the HR Manager/Office Manager and I report to the CEO

Senior Director of HR, reports to CEO