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Long before growing numbers of digital nomads freely roamed the planet, Hamza Benamar had achieved a borderless professional life inside the world of internal audit. \xa0

\u201cI went through a phase in my career when I was not even planning the next year\u2014I was too busy getting my work noticed and getting proposals to go somewhere else,\u201d explains Benamar, who recalls that the question \u201cWhy not?\u201d became the familiar response with which he greeted each new opportunity.

Having grown up in multilingual Morocco, Benamar found that crossing international borders came naturally to him, which gave him an edge when SAP came looking for young professionals to serve a growing roster of clients interested in scaling their processes globally.

\u201cI knew that I was actually going to be able to learn from these marquee companies and discover how to design, implement, and run\xa0the processes of A/R, A/P, and general ledger,\u201d remembers Benamar, who joined SAP\u2019s Houston operation in 1999 before in short order garnering Platinum frequent flyer status with Continental Airlines.\xa0 \xa0

Next, he joined biotechnology rising star Amgen, which was seeking to quickly expand its internal audit function around the world as the company opened a new chapter of global growth.

\u201cI went overseas, built up the audit team, got noticed by the CFO, and moved to Switzerland to be his right-hand controller, and things just continued to evolve from there,\u201d comments \xa0Benamar, who remain with Amgen for 5 years before joining\xa0 the Geneva office of SunGard.

At SunGard, Benamar continued to greet new opportunities with his familiar \u201cWhy not?\u201d attitude and soon found himself relocating first\xa0to Paris, where he would oversee the integration of a recent acquisition, and then to Hong Kong, where he was tasked with reengineering the finance function to align better with its greater Asia-Pacific operations. \xa0\xa0

After 12 years in Europe and Asia, Benamar felt another \u201cWhy not?\u201d pulling him to return to the U.S., where last year\u2014after stint in healthcare finance consulting\u2014he entered the CFO office of treasury software and solutions provider Kyriba.\xa0\u2013Jack Sweeney\xa0

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