FD Capital

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 being up to date and other key considerations.

You can read our blog post on this topic here How to become a successful Finance Director.

To learn more about FD Capital and how we can help you find your first role as an FD or help you recruit an FD, visit our website at https://www.fdcapital.co.uk.

We are a London based niche FD and CFO recruitment boutique and are always on the look out for quality talent.  If you are a business looking for a new FD or CFO then we will be delighted to hear from you.   We have a fantastic database of quality candidates and have a well deserved reputation for always finding the best people for our clients and being helpful and friendly at the same time.

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 choice for senior finance professionals to find new roles, and increasingly Private Equity Houses and Venture Capitalists are reaching out to specialist Finance Director recruitment services such as ours to find roles.

A good approach is to spend a small amount of time each day building your network, its a numbers game so unless and until your have more than 1,000 suitable contacts you won't get much traction, but if you persevere if will and does work.   You have to keep in regular contact with you most useful contacts in order to cultivate them and build enough of a relationship with them to be able to generate oppotunities for yourself.

Visit our FD Capital page on Linkedin to learn more about FD Capital and to explore our current opportunities.  Our main base is in Great Portland Street London, but we also have a presence in Shropshire which supports the West Midlands.

If you are looking for your next FD or CFO opportunity then reach out to our team today and we will add your to our candidate database.  Most of our opportunities are in the London area and we work extensively with PE Houses and VC funds a lot of our porfolio are in the tech niche.

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 something of pent up demand, now being released.

The pandemic came as a massive shock to business, but a positive aspect that has come out of it is the recognition of remote working, in the long term this will be a game changer for business as expensive office costs can be reduced and quality candidates recruited from  lower cost locations.

If you are a Portfolio FD or CFO and are looking for new opportunities, then reach out to us via https://www.fdcapital.co.uk, if you are a business, PE house or Venture capitalist looking for Part-time FD's or Part-time CFO's then would be delighted to hear from you.   We are based in Great Portland Street London, and with an office in Shropshire that covers the West Midlands.