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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.
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.
Give to Gain: The Leadership Multiplier in Modern Finance
What separates a good CFO from a truly influential one? Influential leaders are not defined solely by technical excellence or commercial acumen, but by how they show up for others. Four finance leaders reflect on how generosity in leadership is both deeply personal and commercially powerful.