Hiring a Senior Finance Leader

A practical guide for founders, CEOs and boards making a senior finance appointment. It covers whether you are ready and what to settle with your board first, how to choose between a CFO, an FD, a Head of Finance and a Financial Controller, what to pay and how to read a benchmark, how to run a two-stage process that does not lose your first choice, what to actually ask in the interviews, and how to close the offer and run the first ninety days.