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The role that quietly became one of the most influential in finance
Finance is no longer simply about reporting what happened. As technology automates more routine work, businesses are increasingly looking to finance leaders to influence decisions, challenge assumptions and help shape what happens next. Aran explores how this shift is changing finance roles, the growing importance of strategic finance capability, and what we're seeing across the South's hiring market.
What happens when finance stops looking backwards?
Finance can report what happened, but is it helping your business decide what happens next? Aran explores the signs of a truly strategic finance function, from challenging assumptions and modelling scenarios to influencing commercial decisions, and the capability businesses need to make finance a more powerful part of the decision-making process.
Neurodiversity Isn’t Changing Workplaces… Good Businesses Are
There’s a misconception creeping into workplace conversation. That neurodiversity is changing how businesses operate. It isn’t….Good businesses already are. Neurodiversity is simply making that more visible. And for many senior HR and Finance leaders, that shift is becoming impossible to ignore. Michelle explores this theme ahead of CMA’s September event in Portsmouth.
How Employment Law Changes Are Reshaping Workplace Expectations
Employment law changes are reshaping workplace expectations around performance, flexibility and neurodiversity. Hayley Price explores what this means for HR, finance and leaders ahead of CMA’s September event in Portsmouth.
Why the Best Senior Finance Candidates are Already Gone by the Time Most Businesses Start Looking
This is a scenario that I see play out regularly and it almost always ends the same way. Delays happen because senior hiring sits alongside everything else a business is trying to do, and day-to-day business functions tend to feel more urgent, right up until the vacancy becomes a crisis. Here is why timelines matter and what the organisations that consistently hire well tend to do differently...
Guildford’s Growth Industries: What They Mean for Finance and HR Leadership Hiring
Across Guildford and the south, we are increasingly seeing senior hiring becoming more specialised, and in many cases more difficult, as businesses compete for increasingly specific leadership experience. In this article, we explore what Guildford’s growth industries mean for Finance and HR leadership hiring.