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What Makes a Top FD: The CEO’s Overview

In this series of articles, we speak to local business leaders and financial experts to discover the essential qualities and attributes needed to make it as a top Finance Director (FD). For this final article in the instalment, we speak with Max Toti, CEO at Captec Group to get the viewpoint on what makes a top FD from an organisation’s highest ranking executive.

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What Makes a Top FD: The HR Director’s Viewpoint

In this series of articles, we speak to local business leaders and financial experts to discover the essential qualities and attributes needed to make it as a top Finance Director (FD). For this instalment we spoke to Hazel Hendley, HR Director (HRD) at Ordnance Survey to get a Human Resources perspective on what makes a top FD.

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What Makes a Top FD: The Chartered Accountant’s Viewpoint

In this series of articles, we speak to local business leaders and financial experts to discover the essential qualities and attributes needed to make it as a top Financial Director (FD). For this instalment we spoke to Paul Anthony, Managing Partner at RSM to get a chartered accountant and audit partner’s perspective on what makes a top FD.

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What Makes a Top FD: The Private Equity Perspective

In this series of articles, we speak to local business leaders and financial experts to discover the essential qualities and attributes needed to make it as a top Financial Director (FD). For this third instalment we spoke to two business leaders in the investments sector to get the private equity (PE) perspective on what makes a top FD.

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What Makes a Top FD: The Banking Perspective

In this series of articles, we speak to local business leaders and financial experts to discover the essential qualities and attributes needed to make it as a top Financial Director (FD). For this second instalment we spoke to Gareth Evans, Area Director for Hampshire & Dorset at HSBC to get the banking perspective on what makes a top FD.

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An effective board and the role of an NED

In this series of articles we explore the role of an NED, the attributes needed and how you can gain your first NED position. For this third and final article we focus on the role of a Non-Executive Director on a board - and the attributes needed to be an effective business leader.

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