For experienced Finance professionals reaching a point in their professional life when they’re ready for a change, the “What next?” question can seem a daunting one. But it needn’t be, because change doesn’t have to mean a wholesale career switch, and it doesn’t have to mean retirement either. In fact, you can carry on doing…
At EFM, we’re a network of Finance Directors (FDs), Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and other Finance professionals in the UK and Ireland who bring affordable, part-time, outsourced Finance expertise within the reach of smaller and medium businesses. But it’s not just the clients who benefit from this arrangement. Joining EFM has been a revelation for…
For many experienced finance professionals, the prospect of quitting the corporate hustle and bustle to work in a portfolio role seems to have much to recommend it. Flexibility of work hours and environments, a better work-life balance, the ability to choose interesting clients to work with, yet the potential to earn both quickly and well…
The UK Government’s latest plan to entice over-50s out of retirement and back into work – following the devastating wave of early retirement occasioned by Covid, and generalised labour shortages across the board – has much to commend it, at least if the speculation around it is to be believed. The talk is of possible…
For many experienced Finance professionals looking for greater freedoms in their work and personal lives than a full-time role can offer them, the prospect of becoming a Portfolio Finance Director (FD) or Financial Controller (FC) – an outsourced specialist working flexibly across multiple clients – can be a very attractive one. No more 9 –…
What prompted Paul Durno – a seasoned, senior finance professional with over 25 years’ experience, latterly with a US bank in London – to leave the Canary Wharf behind and instead join EFM’s nationwide network of independent Finance Directors, CFOs, and other experts? How easy was the onboarding process, what have the positive outcomes been,…
General How is being a portfolio Finance Director different from being an interim? An interim FD is usually brought in to provide temporary help to one specific business that has a finance-related issue and needs to get back on track or wants support to hit a specific business goal. A portfolio FD, on the other…
The employment market has been turned on its head by Covid 19, and the media is awash with its consequences. As many employees pursued new opportunities made more urgent and more lucrative by the pandemic, a labour shortage has effectively been created in many industries, and employers are having to offer much higher salaries to…
You may have seen recently that the chairwoman of the John Lewis Partnership, Dame Sharon White, called out one of the most alarming features of the post-pandemic economy: an exodus of over-50s who left the workforce during Covid – an outflow that, in turn, is fuelling wage inflation. The UK has seen one million people,…
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