FD Capital's Podcast.

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about Finance Directors with Private Equity and Venture Capital Experience, and how FD Capital the London based senior finance recruitment boutique has expertise available to help your business with all aspects of fund raising.   We cover the London area and West Midlands but through our network of Finance Directors almost all of the UK as well. Our focus i...

In today's Podcast Adrian Lawrence talks about our new free guide to hiring an FD or CFO which has been published today, you can download it for free by registering at the guides page on our website at https://www.fdcapital.co.uk in it we cover a range of topics and share our experience over the last 3 years of running FD Capital. Topics covered include:- Why hire an FD or CFO? What can an FD or C...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the services that FD Capital Recruitment offers and in particular the range of FD services offered.  We started trading in 2018 initially focussing on the Part-Time FD niche, but since broaden out to offer the full range of FD and CFO opportunities, including, Part-Time, Interim and permanent roles. Our main office is in Great Portland Street London h...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about to become more successful as an FD.  Being a success and progressing in your career are closely related. A career as a Finance Director can bring with it an impressive salary, networking potentials, and opportunities to engage with stakeholders within the industry and further afield. Whether you’re on the first step of the career ladder with your eyes...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about interview advice and tips for FD's and CFO's, it always makes sense to prepare yourself, to gain experience of interviews and to have questions and answers ready to put forward when asked.   Being a good FD is all about the chemistry you will have with the MD / CEO and the rest of the senior management team so it is important to share some information...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the benefits of hiring an FD or CFO and how FD Capital Recruitment can help your business find the perfect candidate.    Some of the key benefits provided by a CFO or FD include: Insights into company performance to improve profits. Introduces better controls and systems. Improves cash forecasting and management. Utilises forecasting, modelling, and p...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment are focussed on Part-Time Finance Directors and CFO's and that we are now based in Great Portland Street London.   There are many advantages to be gained from using this approach, the cost is far less as the FD concerned typically works 2 or 3 days per week, whilst working for other another client or clients the rest of the...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how Temp to Perm Finance roles are increasingly popular, companies get to work with the FD and find out if the chemistry is right and the FD gets the opportunity of a perm role, which with the changes to IR35 and the post pandemic world are increasingly attractive as an alternative to portfolio or interim roles. FD Capital Recruitment are a niche Fina...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about Part-time to permanent FD roles, and how FD Capital recruitment is seeing increasing interest in such a solution.  A Finance director joins initially a couple of days per week, but as the business develops their role increases in time until it becomes a permanent full-time role.  This suits some of our team members who have been contracting for a whil...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment offers interims for Maternity cover of Finance Directors, our team now has a national coverage with offices in London and Shropshire and a presence in Oxford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Manchester, Chester and Leeds. We also offer specialist FD's with skills such as Turnaround, E-Commerce, Bilingual and fund raising experience....

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment has grown and that we work as a network of Finance Directors and CFO's.  Our national coverage has been increasing as we have brought new customers and new opportunities on board, we increased further our locations over recent months, some new areas covered to note now include:- Chester Sheffield Guildford Bournemouth Chelte...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the Interim FD market and how FD Capital Recruitment is seeing a recovery, increasingly we are being asked for Interim FD's and CFO's and this seems to reflect that there is still uncertainty in the job market, employers are considering an FD or CFO but interim with a view to going permanent is an option that is discussed much more now than in 2019 or...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the advantages of having a bilingual FD or CFO on the board.  Having the ability to effectively communicate with international partners and subsidiaries is a positive skill and one that is in demand. Understanding the culture of other countries is a real benefit when it comes to periods of challenging trading.   Being familiar with the tax and legal s...

In todays episode Adrian Lawrence talks about FD Capital Recruitment and how we are a network of Finance Directors and Chief Financial Officers available to support client opportunities.  We give our team first refusal on new opportunities as they come along, and in return ask that they refer to us opportunities they can't fulfil themselves. Our team are available, Part-Time, Full-Time and on an i...

In todays' episode Adrian Lawrence talks about his experience with blogging and how its a great tool for getting traffic to your website and your message across to interested listeners.   Here at FD Capital Recruitment we seek to update out blog on at least a monthly basis with posts related to topics of interest to Finance Directors and CFO's.   Our service is a niche specialist network of FD's a...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about the Chief Financial Officer / CFO Recruitment services available from FD Capital, we offer a full range of options, part-time CFO's, interim CFO's and traditional full-time CFO's.   We have been active in the professional recruitment niche since 2018 and increasingly are the specialist provider of choice for London and West Midlands based businesses l...

In todays' episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment operates, we are a network of finance directors and CFO's that work together to share opportunities and experience, we pass work between each other and also operate as a tradition recruitment service, when an opportunity comes in that is outside of the coverage areas of our team, we advertise the role and headhunt in the sam...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about virtual finance directors or VFM's, FD capital recruitment has been actively recruiting and placing virtual finance directors since 2018 and this was already a popular area for us pre the pandemic.   Now we are seeing that a lot more businesses are recognising the benefits of remote working, and that its a way to reduce costs and access skills that ma...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence gives tips and advice for FD's and CFO's about to hand in their resignation.   If you have reached the difficult decision to move on from a senior financial professional role, then its important to prepare the organisation for the transition, building up the team in anticipation of your move and to handle the resignation discussion in a positive and professional...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment are able to provide Finance Directors to cover for Maternity cover, its important that the chemistry is right with a senior financial professional and that the background of the dedicated interim matches your corporate culture and ideally they have your industry sector experience. If your organisation or business needs an FD...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how an interim finance director can help recruit a permanent finance director.  Bringing in a senior financial professional with experience of both interim work and a clients industry is a great way to help the transition from one Finance Director to another.   The right interim professional will be able to assist by supporting the MD or CEO so they c...

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how FD Capital Recruitment have added two new locations to their national coverage this week, being Derby and Brighton .  The business has been running since 2018 and is based in Great Portland Street, London but following two new opportunities that started this week we now have extended our coverage to include these locations. If you are a Business b...

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 growing...

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 Recruitment has since 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 Wolverhampto...

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 dropped a lo...