FD Capital's Podcast.

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 skil...

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 pro...

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 o...

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 Busin...

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 dr...

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. Bringing a Finance Director o...

In 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 Broade...

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 to t...

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 f...

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 clea...

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...

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 ar...

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...

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...

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 bei...

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 c...

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 so...