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More applicants, harder decisions: Finance recruitment in 2026
Vacancy levels are falling and applications are increasing, but recruiting the right finance capability isn’t any easier. The challenge has shifted from attracting applicants to accurately identifying and securing the people capable of delivering what the business needs next.
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Closing the capability gap: How to recruit for what's coming next
If finance is expected to support growth, lead transformation and improve decision-making, recruitment must assess more than what candidates have done before. It must reveal how they think, learn, influence and lead.
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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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Restructures: Getting the best out of your people
Whether it is minimising anxiety, maintaining performance, or ensuring everyone is engaged and motivated in the new world, HR will be in the thick of it.
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Strategies for successful organisational restructures
Although challenging, in a high-cost, low-growth economic environment, organisational restructures can offer businesses the opportunity to reset and go again.
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