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The CFO can’t do it alone: Building high-performance teams (Part 2)

High-performing finance teams are built through more than technical capability. They are built on human interaction, rooted in trust, constructive challenge, and through leaders who know how to get the best from their people.

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The CFO can’t do it alone: Building high-performance teams (Part 1)

When every major financial decision, forecast, control issue, transformation project and investor question routes through the CFO, the problem is not workload; it is operational risk.

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The modern CFO: Value creator, risk navigator, transformer

The modern CFO is no longer just the guardian of financial control. As finance becomes more strategic, digital and commercially influential, CFOs must now help businesses turn capability, technology and talent into sustainable growth.

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Transformation is as much a people challenge as a technology one

Finance transformation is not just a systems project. Growth-ready finance functions need the right structure, leadership depth, team behaviours and succession beneath the CFO or FD to succeed.

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From Steward to Strategist: Building a Finance Function for Sustainable Growth

Are you being asked to operate like a strategic command centre while still being resourced like a reporting department? You are not alone. Many businesses expect their finance function to perform a role it was not originally designed for.

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Why pay compression is becoming a strategic risk

With wage growth slowing, inflation rising, and the National Living Wage increasing faster than typical private sector pay, many organisations now face a squeeze that is reshaping workforce dynamics, cost structures, and leadership pipelines.

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The pros and cons of pre-employment testing

As increasingly AI-generated candidate CVs come up against AI candidate sourcing, sifting and shortlisting technology, we explore the role of pre-employment testing in making good hiring decisions.

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The local authority landscape is changing

By redefining the relationship between central and local government, the English Devolution White Paper offers possibilities but also huge challenges for local authorities.

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Is DE&I nothing but a woke waste of money?

Where the States lead, we often follow. So, will Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence (ME&I) become the new Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DE&I) in the UK, too?

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