In the current marketplace it is not unusual to find the Finance Director working at a high degree of stress, with demands on his/her time and capabilities which have been unexpected and severe.

In particular we have seen this with smaller listed plc’s coping with both day to day work stress – such as working capital & stakeholder pressures and also the rigours of governance and regulation etc.

PILOTpartners now offers a new service – Peer Finance Directors.

A Peer Finance Director supports FD’s in the following ways on either full time or part time but always on a temporary basis and at a high level:

• Temporary job sharing – taking responsibility for projects or parts of the FD’s job which cannot realistically be handled, for the moment, by one person. The most common context here is where either a financial or operational restructuring is being undertaken and an experienced FD is needed to manage stakeholders and advisors through the project.
• Mentoring less experienced FD’s either through crisis or in the early stages of the new job – especially valuable when dealing with City relationships & presentations for the first time.
• Dealing with overseas divisions or subsidiaries where strong bi-lingual or bi-cultural skills are essential. Such a context could include business/systems integrations, acquisitions & disposals, challenging local financial reporting or taking responsibility for due diligence projects.

For more information please contact James Wheeler

Tel: +44 (0)780 859 0176

Email: j.wheeler@pilotpartners.eu