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The FD and CFO blog from FD Capital Recruitment a leading London based Finance Director network news and updates for Finance Directors

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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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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FD Capital Recruitment Ltd is registered at Companies House (no. 13329383) and has been providing CFOs and Finance Directors since 2018 and is operated by an ICAEW-registered practice. Our founder Adrian Lawrence FCA holds an ICAEW practising certificate.