PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT TEAM RESILIENCE: COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on the global economy leading to significant short-term and longer-term issues for private equity portfolio companies

FTSE 100 CFO Analysis

The Bronzegate team have undertaken detailed research into the backgrounds, tenures and expertise of the FTSE 100 CFO community providing some interesting trends and insight

Inside Private Equity The CFO Survey

This survey and its results are designed to better understand the private equity portfolio CFO community and the relationship between the portfolio CFO and the PE investor

Gender Diversity In Finance Leadership Event

On November 15th Bronzegate held an event in conjunction with Financial Director to promote Gender Diversity in finance leadership

Unconscious Bias Training & The Diversity Agenda

I would like to share an article, published by Forbes, exploring the theme of unconscious bias training which is being broadly implemented by many silicon valley companies

The value of a non-executive experience

Sitting on another company’s Board can be not just an interesting experience- but the opportunity to bring back to your organisation a lot of challenging new ideas.

Three Ways To Get The Best From Your Executive Search Partners

The world of Executive Search continues to evolve and diversify so it can be quite complex for organisations to know how to navigate this

The corporate CFO: transformation and alignment with private equity

The once distinct roles of corporate and private equity chief financial officers are now unifying as pressure mounts for accelerated

FTSE 100 CFO Analysis: Research Document

The Bronzegate team have undertaken detailed research into the backgrounds, tenures and expertise of the FTSE 100 CFO community providing some interesting trends and insight

Two Important (But Often Forgotten) Questions To Always Answer At Leadership Interviews

As per the title, this post may seem a little obvious but I have observed that there are two key points that seem to be frequently forgotten in the desire

What Businesses and Headhunters Can Learn From the Premier League

It’s fair to say I am probably a little obsessed by football and there is no greater stage than the Premier League in my opinion. As a Liverpool fan, I

The Enduring Challenge of Growth

On a day when the announcement of Pfizer’s plan to merge with Allergen to create a pharmaceutical behemoth rubber-stamped 2015 as a record-breaking year for the mega-merger, it is worth

Is Mentoring A Lost Art In Business?

Catching up recently with a senior Director of a FTSE 10 company, we touched upon the topic of business mentoring, an area I have a keen interest in, given the

Three questions a CEO needs to ask before hiring a CFO

CEOs, particularly within SMEs often face the challenge of sourcing a new Finance Director to lead their organisation's finance function. Quite often, the CEO will have limited prior experience of

The Hidden Trait of the Successful Modern Leader

There has been much written about leadership in the modern era and possibly, given the numerous dissections we have all read, there is little to add. However, upon review of

The Changing Face Of The Corporate CFO

However, there remains a wide proportion of the corporate CFO population who have no such desire and who view an even broader or higher-profile CFO role as their primary ambition

Striking a Balance – the SME CFO

In the UK there are approximately 5 million SMEs which employ 15 million and have a combined turnover of £ 1.6 trillion

Talent, Culture and Shared Services

From his position of having more than 15 years’ experience working with global finance leaders and helping acquire finance leadership talent for large corporations, Adam Akbar,

How to Improve Your Finance Leadership Hiring Strategy

When it comes to hiring financial leadership, CFOs have a vested interest in choosing the proper candidate. Yet, despite this goal, they often don’t take a meticulous approach to the

FP&A: Growth Before Evolution

As the global economy continues to warm up but an air of caution still lingers, so the spotlight shines ever more brightly on in-house finance planning and analysis teams. With

Indicators that Big Data Has Arrived at Your Workplace

You’re having nightmares of the data monster approaching you like a bullet train in your sleep; divisions and business units are scrambling for revenue generation opportunities

The Real Point of Shared Services

Whenever we encounter financial shared services, either at a conceptual stage, during transformation or immediately after implementation, the language we encounter is relatively consistent.

PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi on the Tricky Path From CFO to CEO

One day the finance chief, the next the leader of a global giant competing in all of the world's big markets. Do the skills translate? Gerard Baker, interviews Indra Nooyi,

Imagine There’s No Excel

With the rise of analytics and Big Data, replacements for Excel are proliferating and CFOs of companies large and small are beginning to pay attention

Building a forward-looking board

Directors should spend a greater share of their time shaping an agenda for the future. Debate over the role of company boards invariably intensifies when things go wrong on a

UK Companies hiring at the fastest rate for 16 years

Hiring intentions among UK businesses rose strongly in July to surpass their pre-crisis figure and reach their highest level since 1998, according to the latest Business Trends report by accountants

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