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The last 12 months have seen the rise of the fractional finance director, a highly experienced finance professional who will work with your business on a short term basis; likely part time. We've seen them pop up predominantly in SME environments. Unlike your traditional finance director, who are usually employed full time and tend to come with a high salary, a fractional FD offers their expertise to more than one business, working flexibly and at a fraction of the cost.

Read our top tips for accountancy employee retention, which will help your business reduce turnover and keep your finance teams engaged and committed.

Are you working towards your accountancy qualifications? Hannah has some tips for the most popular worries that come up for part-qualified finance professionals.

When most hiring managers think about temporary recruitment, it’s usually in response to an emergency: someone’s off sick, a project is stalling, or there's been a last minute resignation out of the blue. It’s a knee-jerk hire. Get someone in. Keep things moving. Fix it later.

If you’ve ever applied for a job, you’ll know that interview feedback can be like gold dust; that is, in short supply and hard to come by. Even if you do receive it, it typically comes via email and can include such gems as “you weren’t the right fit”, “you were pipped to the post” and “someone scored higher than you on the technical test”. None of these actually tell the candidate anything they are able to use.

We need to change the way we’re thinking about the idea of a four-day working week.