Episodes

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about why companies hire a Finance Director and what the benefits are. Having the right experience at the top of an organisation makes a significant difference. Time and time again we have seen the positive transformation an FD makes. The improvements include:- Greatly improved communications with external parties including banks A focus on profitability by customer and by product Knowledge shared from other industries or elsewhere in the industry Com...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about why companies hire a Finance Director and what the benefits are. Having the right experience at the top of an organisation makes a significant difference. Time and time again we have seen the positive transformation an FD makes. The improvements include:- Greatly improved communications with external parties including banks A focus on profitability by customer and by product Knowledge shared from other industries or elsewhere i...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about why companies hire a Finance Director and what the benefits are. Having the right experience at the top of an organisation makes a significant difference. Time and time again we have seen the positive transformation an FD makes. The improvements include:- Greatly improved communications with external parties including banks A focus on profitability by customer and by product Knowledge shared from other industries or elsewhere i...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the experience of the FD Capital Recruitment Team with podcasting. We are new to this area but are really finding it a great experience to share knowledge and updates using this media and channel. We have already had feedback in that enquiries have come through and mentioned hearing about us from one of our episodes. So it clearly is a value adding way to get our message out. We appear on popular platforms such as Amazon's Audible. To learn more a...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the experience of the FD Capital Recruitment Team with podcasting. We are new to this area but are really finding it a great experience to share knowledge and updates using this media and channel. We have already had feedback in that enquiries have come through and mentioned hearing about us from one of our episodes. So it clearly is a value adding way to get our message out. We appear on popular platforms such as Amazon's Audible. To learn more a...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the experience of the FD Capital Recruitment Team with podcasting. We are new to this area but are really finding it a great experience to share knowledge and updates using this media and channel. We have already had feedback in that enquiries have come through and mentioned hearing about us from one of our episodes. So it clearly is a value adding way to get our message out. We appear on popular platforms such as Amazon's Audible. To learn more a...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about an increase in Finance Directors and CFO's working in the UK but living overseas. As a result of the pandemic employers are now more open minded with the location their FD's choose to work from. We have one FD who moved to Cyprus before the Brexit Deadline and has been able to continue working remotely from there. His employers are aware of his location and provided he is able to attend periodic team meetings are OK with it. To learn more about FD ...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about an increase in Finance Directors and CFO's working in the UK but living overseas. As a result of the pandemic employers are now more open minded with the location their FD's choose to work from. We have one FD who moved to Cyprus before the Brexit Deadline and has been able to continue working remotely from there. His employers are aware of his location and provided he is able to attend periodic team meetings are OK with it. To learn more about FD ...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about an increase in Finance Directors and CFO's working in the UK but living overseas. As a result of the pandemic employers are now more open minded with the location their FD's choose to work from. We have one FD who moved to Cyprus before the Brexit Deadline and has been able to continue working remotely from there. His employers are aware of his location and provided he is able to attend periodic team meetings are OK with it. To learn more about FD ...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital has evolved since starting in 2018, initially based in London, then with an office in Shropshire, we now have a presence in Manchester, Oxford and Bristol giving us a significant ability to service recruitment across the Country. Our specialism remains part-time and full-time Finance Director and CFO recruitment. We are increasingly offering niche specialists including Turnarounds, fund raising, distress situations and E-Commerce expe...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital has evolved since starting in 2018, initially based in London, then with an office in Shropshire, we now have a presence in Manchester, Oxford and Bristol giving us a significant ability to service recruitment across the Country. Our specialism remains part-time and full-time Finance Director and CFO recruitment. We are increasingly offering niche specialists including Turnarounds, fund raising, distress situations a...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital has evolved since starting in 2018, initially based in London, then with an office in Shropshire, we now have a presence in Manchester, Oxford and Bristol giving us a significant ability to service recruitment across the Country. Our specialism remains part-time and full-time Finance Director and CFO recruitment. We are increasingly offering niche specialists including Turnarounds, fund raising, distress situations a...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of our CFO's discusses the new Department for International Trade grant to boost SME's exports, its a match funded grant of between £1,000 and £9,000 being 40% or 50% of eligible spend depending on the location of your business. What it supports are things such as attending international trade shows, Geo-targeted SEO, professional fees and related areas such as Intellectual property and translation services. Its a great scheme and the team at FD Capital ha...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of our CFO's discusses the new Department for International Trade grant to boost SME's exports, its a match funded grant of between £1,000 and £9,000 being 40% or 50% of eligible spend depending on the location of your business. What it supports are things such as attending international trade shows, Geo-targeted SEO, professional fees and related areas such as Intellectual property and translation services. Its a great scheme and the team at FD C...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of our CFO's discusses the new Department for International Trade grant to boost SME's exports, its a match funded grant of between £1,000 and £9,000 being 40% or 50% of eligible spend depending on the location of your business. What it supports are things such as attending international trade shows, Geo-targeted SEO, professional fees and related areas such as Intellectual property and translation services. Its a great scheme and the team at FD C...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of the CFO's from FD Capital's team talks about a grant which is available to support SME businesses that are facing challenges with the new Brexit rules and regime. The grant covers training and or professional fees, which if you are an FD or CFO with a personal services company and registered with your institute as a firm means you can offer the service directly to your client and potentially be eligible for the grant. The maximum grant is £2,000 which wh...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of the CFO's from FD Capital's team talks about a grant which is available to support SME businesses that are facing challenges with the new Brexit rules and regime. The grant covers training and or professional fees, which if you are an FD or CFO with a personal services company and registered with your institute as a firm means you can offer the service directly to your client and potentially be eligible for the grant. The maximum grant is...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of the CFO's from FD Capital's team talks about a grant which is available to support SME businesses that are facing challenges with the new Brexit rules and regime. The grant covers training and or professional fees, which if you are an FD or CFO with a personal services company and registered with your institute as a firm means you can offer the service directly to your client and potentially be eligible for the grant. The maximum grant is...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence himself a successful Finance Director talks about how to become an FD and to become a successful one. The key steps being to get qualified and build up experience with running a finance department. Improving your people skills is very important, and having a mentor along the way is great also. Becoming a master or a whizz at Excel and always being up to date and other key considerations. You can read our blog post on this topic here How to become a successful...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence himself a successful Finance Director talks about how to become an FD and to become a successful one. The key steps being to get qualified and build up experience with running a finance department. Improving your people skills is very important, and having a mentor along the way is great also. Becoming a master or a whizz at Excel and always being up to date and other key considerations. You can read our blog post on this topic here How to ...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence himself a successful Finance Director talks about how to become an FD and to become a successful one. The key steps being to get qualified and build up experience with running a finance department. Improving your people skills is very important, and having a mentor along the way is great also. Becoming a master or a whizz at Excel and always being up to date and other key considerations. You can read our blog post on this topic here How to ...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how useful Linkedin has become to find new Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer opportunities. The good news is that the market is now recovering following the recent Pandemic and here at FD Capital we are seeing more opportunities coming forward than at any time since early 2020. Linkedin has become the social media platform for choice for senior finance professionals to find new roles, and increasingly Private Equity Houses and Venture Ca...

Here at FD Capital we are seeing a return to normality in the senior financial recruitment niche, 2020 was a busy year for us, but the last lockdown was very a slow time, but on a positive note we have seen more enquiries in the period from 1st April until 11th April than we did in the period November 2020 to March 2020, that does show how slow the market has become, and there seems to be something of pent up demand, now being released. If you are a Portfolio FD or CFO and are looking for new o...

Here at FD Capital we are seeing a return to normality in the senior financial recruitment niche, 2020 was a busy year for us, but the last lockdown was very a slow time, but on a positive note we have seen more enquiries in the period from 1st April until 11th April than we did in the period November 2020 to March 2020, that does show how slow the market has become, and there seems to be something of pent up demand, now being released. The pandemic came as a massive shock to business, but a po...