FDlink
flexible - affordable - effective
professional financial leadership
A compelling alternative to full-blown FD recruitment - FDlink offers high-value, strategic financial management on a part-time or interim basis.
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Ultimately flexible, our innovative, no-nonsense approach means you only pay for the support you need - avoiding the risks associated with full-blown FD recruitment and significantly reducing costs.
Affordable and quality-driven, FDlink brings extensive experience across a range of industries, funding environments, and successful transactions - including MBO, MBI and listed-entity financial leadership.
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With expert business planning, strategic expertise, and transaction successes, FDlink works seamlessly as part of your senior team to drive performance and improve outcomes.
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If you are looking to strengthen your team, bridge a temporary gap, or deliver a crucial transaction or surge project - FDlink delivers high-value, qualified support - flexibly, affordably, and effectively.
a compelling alternative
Given the significant investment needed to recruit and retain a permanent FD,It's understandable that organisations often hesitate to commit.
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Costs are amplified when pension, healthcare, car, bonus, performance-related pay and other benefits are considered. Add recruitment fees and the real risk the recruitment proves unsuitable; having to be repeated.
FDlink addresses this nervousness, by allowing you to deploy an experienced, qualified FD - flexibly, at significantly lower cost, and unbound by any long-term contractual commitment.
Experience ranges from start-up FD to NASDAQ-listed CFO, ensuring an effective service across a range of business scales and funding environments - available as you need it.
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Transactional experience includes full-cycle MBO and MBI, alongside multiple successful debt and equity fundraising projects - meaning FDlink has lived experience of financial leadership through the most challenging business developments.
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From high-level strategy formation, to hands-on financial management, FDlink offers challenging, evidence-based input - in a straightforward, no-blame, and uncontentious manner.
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Delivering significant savings by working flexibly to match your changing needs, FDlink also minimises the business damage, cost, and contractual risk often triggered by failed permanent recruitment.
what's not included?
Refreshingly, FDlink's flexible project approach comes without the plethora costs and risks associated with permanent FD recruitment; including:
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NO recruitment fee​
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NO benefits package (pension, car, healthcare, etc.)
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NO excess emoluments (bonus, performance related pay)
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NO downtime
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NO project termination costs
Combined, these benefits significantly lower cost and avoid recruitment risk.
Resolving the financial weakness and risk of the traditional recruitment model; FDlink offers a flexible, high-value, lower-risk alternative when considering qualified FD support.
why FD?
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Requiring a unique blend of financial, commercial, and interpersonal skills, the FD brings an expert and independent perspective to strategic planning, decision-making, productivity, efficiency, planning, risk management, and business reporting.
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Adding credibility to the organisation and helping elevate confidence among all stakeholders, the FD also holds crucial relationships with banks and equity investors.
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A quality FD is the CEO's natural confidante and wing-mate, as well as trusted, independent partner of the board and wider senior management team.
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With the technical, commercial, analytical, engagement, and communication skills to advance the business, FDs motivate staff to achieve - improving performance, and reducing risk.
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Our extensive experience, from start-up FD to NASDAQ-listed CFO, means an effective service across a range of business scales and funding environments - all available, as and when you need it.
Our flexible project-based service is ideal for organisations searching for professional, agile, and high-value financial leadership - delivering all the benefits of FD resource.
finance teams
FDlink has a track record of transforming finance departments into relevant, communicative, agile, and motivated teams - determined to contribute, and always 'open for business'.
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We see real value in a high-performing finance team, placed at the centre of an organisation; fully engaged with the operational drive to improve outcomes and offset downsides.
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We invest time to understand how and why an organisation does things, ensuring the finance team's activity is fully aligned with maximising performance. We do this by reducing barriers and integrating finance support within all commercial and operational functions.
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If this fits with your philosophy and expectation, then FDlink can help.
