Fractional Management Accountant: Does the Model Work?
Most descriptions of this role list responsibilities and tell you nothing about what the job feels like. The reality of management accounting is that it has a shape: the month is not uniform, the first week and the third week are almost different jobs, and …
A Day in the Life of a Management Accountant
Most descriptions of this role list responsibilities and tell you nothing about what the job feels like. The reality of management accounting is that it has a shape: the month is not uniform, the first week and the third week are almost different jobs, and …
Fractional Finance Business Partner: The Emerging Model
Fractional finance leadership is well established at the top of the function — part-week Finance Directors and Financial Controllers are now an ordinary way for mid-market businesses to buy senior capability. What is newer, and less well understood, is the same model applied one level …
How Many Finance Business Partners Do You Need?
Businesses building a business partnering capability almost always ask the wrong question first. They ask what a finance business partner does, then hire one, and only later discover that one person cannot meaningfully partner six commercial areas. The better question is the sizing one: how …
Month-End Close Speed: UK Benchmark Report 2026
Close speed is the most visible measure of whether a finance function is working. It is also the one most businesses quote without knowing whether their number is good. A ten-day close sounds slow to a listed company and enviable to a founder whose management …
Finance Salaries vs Inflation: A 5-Year UK Tracker
Between 2021 and 2026 the UK went through the sharpest inflationary episode in four decades and came out the other side with a pay landscape that looks quite different from the one it entered. For finance professionals the question is simple and rarely answered honestly: …
Consumer Duty MI: What Finance Must Produce
The Consumer Duty changed what FCA-regulated firms have to be able to demonstrate, and a large part of the demonstration is data. Boards must satisfy themselves annually that the firm is delivering good outcomes for retail customers, and that assessment rests on management information — …
Charity & Not-for-Profit Finance: SORP Skills & Hiring
Charity and not-for-profit finance looks, from the outside, like ordinary finance with tighter budgets. From the inside it is a distinct discipline with its own rulebook, its own reporting framework, and its own scarce skill set — and hiring for it as though it were …
The Hybrid Model: Fractional FC + In-House MA
There is a finance-team structure that growing businesses reach almost by accident and rarely by design, and it is often the most cost-effective arrangement available to them: a fractional Financial Controller providing senior oversight one or two days a week, paired with a full-time in-house …
When a Head of Finance Is the Right First Senior Hire
When a growing business decides it needs senior finance leadership, it faces a title problem before it faces a hiring problem. Financial Controller, Head of Finance, Finance Director — the labels overlap, candidates interpret them differently, and choosing the wrong one either overpays for a …
