Guidance for finance leaders and the people who hire them
Most of what we publish starts as a conversation. A founder asking whether they need a full-time finance director or two days a week of someone considerably more experienced. A chair trying to work out why the board pack still arrives the night before. A compliance officer at a small broker wondering how to cover an SMF16 while they recruit. Those conversations repeat often enough that writing the answer down once is more useful than giving it forty times.
Search is a market with a lot of noise in it, and the easiest way to tell the difference between a firm that knows a sector and one that has simply bought the keyword is to read what they write. If we can explain why a particular hire works, you can judge whether we understand the problem before you ever pick up the phone.
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Finance Directors
Interim FD: M&A Support
When does a UK business engage an interim Finance Director specifically for M&A support — given that transactions are typically time-bounded events with intensive fi…
Interim
Interim FD: Budgeting & Forecasting Best Practice
How does an interim Finance Director actually transform a UK business's budgeting and forecasting infrastructure within the time-limited engagement window — given th…
CFO
Interim CFO for Tech & Crypto Startups
When does a UK tech or crypto startup actually need an interim CFO rather than fractional engagement, accelerated permanent search, or simply waiting until permanent…
Finance Directors
How Interim FDs Support Permanent Hiring
How does an interim Finance Director materially improve the outcome of a UK business's permanent FD recruitment process — given that the interim FD has unique visibi…
CFO
How CFOs Lead Change in Organisations
How does a UK CFO actually lead organisational change effectively — given that change failure rates remain stubbornly high, that the CFO's authority is rarely suffic…
Finance Directors
Fractional FD: Revenue Recognition & Subscription Finance
How does a fractional Finance Director actually navigate UK subscription business revenue recognition — given the technical complexity of IFRS 15 application to mult…
Finance Directors
Fractional FD: Cost, Pricing & ROI
What does a fractional Finance Director actually cost in the UK in 2026, how should businesses benchmark fees against the value delivered, and what specific contribu…
Finance Directors
Fractional FD: Cash Flow & Liquidity Management
How does a fractional Finance Director actually transform a UK business's cash flow visibility and liquidity management — given that cash flow problems rarely emerge…
Finance Directors
The Role of Fractional FD in Capital Structure Optimisation (Debt vs Equity)
How does a fractional Finance Director actually contribute to UK capital structure decisions — including the debt versus equity choices that shape commercial flexibi…
Finance Directors
Fractional FD Across Sectors: Professional Services, Retail, Nonprofits
How does fractional Finance Director engagement actually work across different UK sectors — given that professional services firms, retail and ecommerce businesses,…
CFO
Fractional CFO & ESG: Sustainable Finance Leadership
How does a fractional CFO lead ESG and sustainability reporting in a UK business — given that the regulatory framework has expanded materially over the last five yea…
Tech
Finance Leadership in Fintech & Crypto
What does senior finance leadership look like in UK fintech and crypto businesses — given the regulatory complexity, novel revenue models, and specific compliance de…
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About the FD Capital blog
The useful information in this market is unevenly distributed. A private equity house doing its fourth CFO replacement knows roughly what good looks like. A founder-led business making its first senior finance hire usually does not, and the cost of getting it wrong falls hardest on exactly those businesses. Writing it down evens that up a little.
Articles are written by the FD Capital team and overseen by founder Adrian Lawrence FCA. Where we quote day rates, salaries or timescales, the figures come from live mandates rather than from a published survey.
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Adrian Lawrence FCA
Adrian is the founder and Managing Director of FD Capital. A Chartered Accountant and ICAEW Fellow, he became a finance director at 28 and has spent more than 25 years at C-suite level, including as finance director of a listed company and of a private equity backed management buy-out. Every search is run by our specialist team, with Adrian overseeing each mandate.
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