FD Capital

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment have successfully picked up new opportunities and as a result have added two new locations to their national coverage this week, these being Derby and Brighton respectively. The recruitment business has been running since 2018 and is based in Great Portland Street, London, with a small office in Shropshire, but followin...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the growing national coverage of FD Capital Recruitment, formed in 2018, and initially based in London and Shropshire FD Capital has grown a national network of Finance Directors and Chief Financial officers covering:- London - Our main office is located on Great Portland Street  Oxford Birmingham Manchester Leeds Bristol Wolverhampton Shropshire...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about interim FD Recruitment, FD Capital Recruitment are seeing more enquiries in 2021 than in any previous year for Interim assignments, often these then turn into either permanent full-time FD roles or long term part-time FD roles. Historically FD Capital has seen around 55% of its roles being Part-Time and 45% full-time but now interim roles are gro...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of the team of FD's with FD Capital Recruitment talks about the London market for Finance Directors and how FD Capital Recruitment are seeing a recovery in activity in 2021.   Last year saw a lot of issues as a result of the pandemic and we became very busy in the early part of the year as companies needed our turnaround specialists, but activity dr...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of the FD's with FD Capital Recruitment talks about the benefits of recruiting an FD on a Part-Time Basis or as a Portfolio FD (an FD who works for more than one company at the same time).  Increasingly we are seeing interest in the market for these part time roles as there are many benefits for companies looking for their FD Recruit. Lower cost due...

n today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the benefits of recruiting a CFO on a part-time or portfolio basis.  Here are FD Capital Recruitment we are seeing more and more employers and CEO's are open to the option of taking on a CFO on a fractional basis. There are many benefits to this:- Costs are lower Access to candidates that are focussed on this type of role A wider skill set Br...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of the Finance Directors with FD Capital Recruitment talks about FD Capital now have a presence in Oxford.   We have a number of FD's on our books with Oxford degrees and some of these still live in the Oxford area, as we are working regularly with these FD's and CFO's we now feel we can service clients based in Oxford. To learn more about...

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 profita...

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...

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...

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 increas...

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 re...

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 offe...

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 d...

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 somethi...

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...