UK Finance Awards 2024 / 10 Best Financial Director Coaching & Mentoring Programme 2024 Many businessowners know their businesses intricately well, but often fall short when it comes to handling their financials. They tend to shy away from the complexities of numbers and industry jargon, intimidated by what they may not understand. Enter Finance Director Specialists, an exceptional Essex-based company acting as a trusted partner to businesses needing guidance and support in navigating their finances. We learn more from Mark Birchall, Founder of Finance Director Specialists, below. Mark Birchall founded Finance Director Specialists in 2015, with the aim of helping businesses grow and flourish by providing top-tier financial support services. A seasoned professional within the financial industry, Mark felt that there was a gap in the marketplace for an experienced service provider with the capabilities to aid both businesses and their financial teams in gaining ownership of their numbers with accurate, fast reporting. Initially, Finance Director Specialists began with Mark as its sole driver, routinely meeting with businessowners to get a better understanding of the issues they were facing. A decade later and the company has grown substantially, though its mission has always remained the same: to create an open environment that allows businessowners, directors, and finance teams to open up about where their business is, and where they would like it to be. Now an established leader within the financial field, Finance Director Specialists serves a wide array of clientele, ranging from new start-ups and those with an initial concept, to mature businesses in need of succession planning and structural changes to better navigate the evolving economy. The company has worked with clients across numerous industries, including fashion, jewellery groups, car dealerships, printing groups, food production groups, interior fit-out entities, and even largescale construction companies supplying services to local authorities, vet practices, and charities. “We make finance fun!” In the business of integrity, Finance Director Specialists provides transparent numbers with independent advice. Working alongside businessowners and managers who recognise that their current way of working is holding their businesses back, the company meets face-toface with each client to ensure that each project is undertaken with clarity and understanding. From there, the team will structure an action plan containing all issues to be addressed, ranging from strategy, financial board packs, sourcing additional finance, mentoring teams, grooming the business for sale, or working through the many business levers. A trusted partner in the world of finance, Finance Director Specialists undertakes each new project with the grit and determination for which it has become renowned, dedicated to ensuring that every client leaves its care satisfied, educated, and ready to thrive. Committed to client-centricity, the company provides clients with round-the-clock access to a dedicated CFO and flexible work plans that are adapted to the business’s needs, all geared towards helping them to seamlessly navigate any challenges that may arise throughout the process. “You are not assigned to a consultant who uses a tool kit but work alongside someone who has actually been in the business, and met with the many problems a businessowner faces,” Mark explains. “We openly share our work plan to ensure that our clients’ objectives are fully met. We understand the ups and downs of business and are always available to support the growing pains and exit realities of the business world. The entire team works with the ethos that finance can be fun and made enjoyable, even with tight deadlines.” Finance Director Specialists is driven by a highly capable team, with each member possessing at minimum a CIPD Level 7 qualification, foundational qualifications in accountancy, a bachelor’s qualification in accountancy and finance, a Xero diploma, an Internet Business diploma, a PG in Business and Life Coaching, and an MBA, alongside being qualified FCCA accountants, and British Psychometric Society qualified. This diverse skillset enables the team to serve as a beacon of knowledge, providing a comprehensive suite of knowledge and experience that is unparalleled by competing companies, earning Finance Director Specialists the prestigious title of the Best Financial Director Coaching and Mentoring Programme 2024. “Our staff complete at least 50 hours of continuous professional development,” Mark tells us. “We have a can-do attitude and shape each solution to the client, ensuring that both parties can really enjoy the journey to deliver pride, passion, and commitment. These qualities are key, as businessowners need a bubble of protection that allows them to really open up about the challenges of their business. We get the job done with pride, passion, and commitment, making the journey fun and enjoyable.” Contact: Mark Birchall Company: Finance Director Specialists Web Address: https:// financedirectorspecialistsltd.co.uk/
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