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Recruitment
29 Mar 2011
Career progression should be clearly defined if you want to find tomorrow’s leaders from today’s recruits
24 Sep 2007
Managerial and professional roles top the UK jobs growth charts
04 Jan 2007
With almost 30 FDs in the FTSE-350 earning £1m-plus, the job looks increasingly attractive. And the FDs look younger too.
25 Oct 2006
Darren Shapland to arrive at sainsbury's in the summer, while a successor at Carpetright is set to be named soon
06 May 2005
It's hard enough to recruit well-skilled staff. Once you've found them, retaining and motivating them continues to be an enormous corporate challenge.
07 Mar 2005
EMI Group has appointed Martin Stewart as its new chief financial officer. The former CFO of BSkyB and finance director of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment succeeds Roger Faxon, who joins EMI Music Publishing in New York to take up a newly appointed role of president and chief operating officer.
01 Feb 2005
Eric Tracey is to become finance director of gaming group Wembley. Tracey has been an audit partner at Deloitte for the past 24 years, and in 2002 was seconded to troubled support services company Amey as acting finance director for nine months. During this period, Amey was sold and Tracey was short-listed for the Accountancy Age FD of the Year award.
05 Jan 2005
Former Six Continents finance director Richard North will step down "by mutual consent" as chief executive of InterContinental Hotels at the end of September 2004. During North's tenure, the group had seen its share price increase by 67%, but a company statement says that a new focus on brand development rather than financial management is the reason for his departure.
30 Sep 2004
On the same day that Abbey National announced it was in merger talks with Banco Santander, British Land revealed that it was poaching Abbey's COO and former FD Stephen Hester as chief executive.
02 Sep 2004
Peter Voser has been appointed group managing director and director of finance of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Voser, currently chief financial officer at Swiss technology group ABB, will join Shell on 4 October 2004.
16 Jul 2004
First Choice has appointed Paul Bowtell as group finance director, with effect from early September. He takes over from Andrew Martin, who left the role in March. Bowtell has spent the last two years as FD of Centrica subsidiary British Gas. Before his tenure at BG he held senior financial positions at WH Smith and Forte.
02 Jun 2004
HBOS group finance director Mike Ellis is set to retire at the end of the year after 17 years of service.
04 May 2004
Mary Keegan is leaving the Accounting Standards Board to serve as HM Treasury's managing director, financial management, reporting and audit. She will also act as the Treasury's FD in the new role. Gus O'Donnell, permanent secretary to the Treasury, said: "We have recruited one of the most talented, influential and experienced people in UK finance to drive forward financial management and reporting in government." Keegan takes over from Sir Andrew Likierman in July.
01 Apr 2004
BSkyB chief financial officer Martin Stewart has quit the role to pursue other interests, but will continue in his post until 4 August 2004, unless a successor is appointed before that date. Stewart joined the company in 1996 as financial controller. He became CFO in 1998. Recently appointed chief executive James Murdoch saluted Stewart's contribution to the company: "Martin has played an enormous role in the success of Sky and has been instrumental in the company's transition from analogue to digital."
01 Mar 2004
Barclays group FD John Varley has been promoted to group deputy chief executive, effective January 2004. He will take over as chief executive from Matthew Barrett at the end of 2004. Naguib Kheraj, currently chief executive of Barclays Private Clients, takes over as group finance director.
05 Nov 2003
Former First Choice Holidays and Manchester United FD David Gill has been named as United's chief executive. Gill takes charge following Peter Kenyon's surprise move to Chelsea.
29 Sep 2003
The British Film Institute has appointed Jeanette Wilkins as director of finance. Wilkins has experience in the media sector as Granada UK Broadcasting FD and in the same role with ONdigital.
01 Sep 2003
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