Author: Adrian Lawrence

What makes the family office CFO or FD role genuinely different from senior finance leadership in a corporate business — and what does the hiring process need to look like to find the right person? Family offices are among the most distinctive finance leadership environments …

Why is the CFO now the senior executive most often accountable for digital and finance transformation — and what does leading it well actually look like in practice? Over the past decade, digital and finance transformation has moved from being an IT-owned technology programme to …

What does CFO value creation actually look like inside a PE portfolio company — and how does it differ from senior finance leadership in an owner-managed business? Private equity ownership creates a specific operating context that reshapes the CFO role. The timeline is defined (typically …

What does strategic leadership actually look like at CFO level — and how is it different from running a finance function well? The Chief Financial Officer role in the UK has changed more in the last decade than in the three decades before it. Traditional …

By Adrian Lawrence FCA — Founder, FD Capital | Fellow of the ICAEW Metrics, budgeting, and forecasting are what separate finance functions that inform decisions from finance functions that just record them. Any accountant can produce last month’s results; a CFO produces the information that …

By Adrian Lawrence FCA — Founder, FD Capital | Fellow of the ICAEW The businesses that come through crisis well almost always share the same trait: they had a CFO who had been in crisis before, and who acted early rather than reactively. The CFOs …

By Adrian Lawrence FCA — Founder, FD Capital | Fellow of the ICAEW Scaling breaks businesses more often than starting them does. The transition from £1m revenue to £10m, or £10m to £50m, is where most commercial ambitions either compound into durable success or unravel …