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.

Have you taken a business from £15m to £50m? That's the whole job.
We're recruiting a Finance Director for a B Corp certified furniture procurement and consultancy business in Clerkenwell. They design-source and deliver FF&E for some of the most recognisable commercial interiors in London, and they're about to attempt the hardest stretch of growth a company ever does — the one where the systems, the cash cycle and the reporting that got you here all stop working at once.
They don't want someone who will learn that on the way. They want someone who has already done it.
The business
Founder-led, eleven years old, seventeen people, and growing fast enough that the balance sheet has changed shape in a single year. They procure furniture and FF&E for commercial and residential interiors — blue-chip clients, European manufacturers, long lead times, complex multi-stage projects.
They are a certified B Corp with a B Impact Score more than double the median. Sustainability isn't a marketing line here; it's the reason clients choose them, and the FD will own the impact and ISO reporting that underpins it.
This is the first permanent Finance Director in the company's history.
Why this role is genuinely hard
The growth is real, but so is the strain. This is a procurement business, which means the money is tied up in the middle: client deposits, supplier prepayments to European factories, long project cycles, currency exposure, and retentions on fit-out programmes. Revenue growth in this model consumes cash rather than generating it.
You'll be the first person in the business whose job is to see that clearly and act on it.
What you'll own:
Cash and working capital — the deposit-to-delivery cycle, supplier terms, and the facilities to fund growth
Project and client-level margin — building the visibility that doesn't currently exist
FX policy across a European supply chain
Budgeting, forecasting and board reporting to the two co-founders
The finance function itself — you'll lead a Finance Manager and a Finance Coordinator, and grow the team as the business scales
Systems — the current stack won't carry the business to £50m, and replacing it will be yours to lead
Funding readiness, with the founders actively considering their options
What we need you to have done
This is the filter, and we mean it. You have personally been the senior finance leader in a business that scaled from roughly £15m to £50m in revenue. Not observed it. Not joined afterwards. Owned the finance function through it.
If that's on your CV, we want to talk. If it isn't, this probably isn't the one.


Adrian Lawrence FCA is the founder of FD Capital and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He holds a BSc from Queen Mary College, University of London, and has over 25 years of experience as a Chartered Accountant and finance leader working with private, PE-backed and owner-managed businesses across the UK. He founded FD Capital to connect growing businesses with the Finance Directors and CFOs they need to scale — and personally interviews candidates for senior finance appointments.




