Benefits

Benefits

Secantor can provide your company with a highly experienced Finance Director, quickly and cost effectively, to meet your precise needs.

Our national network is made up of some of the most accomplished FDs available, who now offer their services to smaller and medium sized companies on a part-time, interim or project basis.

A Part-time Secantor FD

A Secantor FD, working with your management team on a part-time basis, can bring a wide range of proven financial and commercial skills right into the heart of your business. Helping you achieve improvements in:

Finance

A well structured and run finance function, ensuring strong cashflow control and the provision of accurate and timely management information

Profitability

Reviewing systems, procedures and overheads to reduce costs and improve margins

Insight

Hard-nosed advice to help you make informed business decisions that maximise opportunities and minimise potential problems

Strategic planning

Seasoned business thinking to provide strategic input to help you plan for a better future

External relations

Liaison with bankers, lawyers, accountants and other external service providers

Structure

Identification of areas of the business that might need to be strengthened and, if appropriate, calling in Secantor specialists in areas such as Marketing, IT, HR or Intellectual Property to assess the situation and identify potential improvements

Executive efficiency

Financial support to free up your time so that you can do what you do best - develop your business

Special Events

Assisting with external fund-raising, a merger, acquisition or business sale, and providing ready access to Secantor's wide business expertise and network

Company value

Ensuring that the company is optimising long term value building

A variable cost that you control

Appointing a Secantor part-time FD is a low risk decision because it is a variable cost that you can turn up, turn down or turn off, if you so choose. You get top-level advice and input at a far lower cost than employing even a relatively junior FD on a full-time basis. Because all Secantor FDs are carefully selected and accredited you can rest assured that you have a top quality person contributing to your business. And you also avoid all of the time consuming complexities, costs and commitment associated with direct employment:

  • No advertising or recruitment agency costs
  • No NI or pension obligations
  • No holiday or sickness payment
  • No car, health cover or other fringe benefit costs
  • No redundancy obligations

An Interim Secantor FD

Whatever your reasons for needing interim financial input, Secantor can normally provide you with a choice of fully accredited candidates, each with the skills necessary to deliver the results you need quickly and efficiently. If, for example, your need is for a full-time FD, you can avoid rushing the process with an interim Secantor FD.

The benefits of choosing a Secantor FD include:

Proven Quality

A professional who has been carefully selected and accredited as a Secantor FD (not a CV drawn down from a data base)

Network Support

Besides bringing their own considerable skills to bear, every Secantor FD can call on the huge knowledge base and specialist expertise within the entire Secantor network, on your behalf

Pressure Responsive

If your need for help goes up or down, Secantor will respond. We can, for example, provide a part-time financial controller to work with your Secantor FD

A Secantor FD to handle a major project

If you have a project that requires specialist skills, or a major event that creates a need to augment your financial team, then Secantor can help. Our FDs can either take internal ownership of the project or simply provide guidance through the process. Our help can range from assisting with a merger or acquisition, the implementation of a new IT or management system, or reviewing your current business strategy.

The benefits of appointing a Secantor FD for your project include:

Proven Quality

A professional who has been carefully selected and accredited as a Secantor FD (not a CV drawn down from a data base)

Experience

Whatever you project entails it is likely we can provide you with a Secantor FD who has handled similar projects before.

Network Support

Besides bringing their own considerable skills to bear, every Secantor FD can call on the huge knowledge base and specialist expertise within the entire Secantor network, on your behalf

Pressure Responsive

If your need for help goes up or down, Secantor will respond. We can, for example, provide a part-time financial controller to work with your Secantor FD

How does it work?

Secantor provides its on-demand FD service through a series of regional teams around the country. If you have a potential need for a part-time, interim or project based FD, one of our Regional Directors will meet with you to gain an understanding of the needs of your business and he or she will propose a Secantor FD for you to meet.

The Secantor FD proposed for your business will have been selected by the Regional Director as most likely to be compatible with you and your business, as much as for any particular skills or any sector experience. The Secantor FD will spend a free half a day with you to discuss the needs of your business in more detail before recommending a course of action.