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Welcome to the Odgers CFO Practice Blog
The CFO Practice at Odgers is one of the leading recruiters of Finance Directors and their teams into businesses across all sectors, size and ownership structure. From FTSE 100 to small cap, from private equity to not for profit, the CFO Practice at Odgers is dedicated to providing a world class service to client and candidate alike.
The team is the only major search firm to have finance specialists based both in London and the regions. We have decades of experience in helping people build and develop their careers across the UK and this positions us at the forefront of the debate around the role of finance and how it is evolving.
We hope you find the following of interest and would encourage you to contribute and comment widely by sending an email to CFO.blog@odgersberndtson.co.uk.
Blog Posts
Not surprisingly, 2011 has been a fairly prudent year for FD salaries on the whole. Out of the FTSE 100, salaries have tiptoed forward an unimpressive...
A quick glance through the list of FTSE Finance Directors will show that nearly half of FDs currently in post were appointed internally, despite an...
Reading through today’s FT over breakfast, brought memories flooding back of my days at KPMG, scouring the pages of the FT, hoping to see my name in...
The early to mid noughties, with access to cheap money was a boom time for the Private Equity sector, with nine of the biggest buyouts in history...
Hope everyone had a good weekend. I spent Thursday and Friday last week at the FD Summit – the event organised by Finance Director Magazine. Excellent...
The good news is the talent pool has got larger. In addition, the ability of UK businesses to attract overseas talent has increased ten-fold since the...
The role of a Plc Finance Director continues to grow and grow. I was with a FTSE 100 FD this morning and we were discussing their function and the...
Our understanding of how to motivate and reward employees needs to evolve. Science says so…. research sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank and...
Suspend preconceived views for two minutes; compare the functions like for like. They are both support functions to a business; fact. Today, the...
Our CEO once said to me – which other business has KPI’s for the numbers of lunches you go on. Well I was at one of them yesterday and I was talking...
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