If you were to ask any business out there today what their biggest challenge is for the year ahead, you're likely to get the same answer: finding good people. In fact, a recent survey by Glassdoor revealed that 76% of hiring decision makers said that attracting quality candidates was their number one challenge. After years [...]
“Happy New Year, now let’s get planning!” This is how it would have felt for many people as they headed back to work at the start of the year. No sooner had you awoken your computer from its slumber than words like ‘objectives’, ‘goals’ and ‘targets’ began being thrown around in the boardroom – often [...]
‘Mike knows my achievements and the clients who need me.’ An interview with Stephen Long; Group Treasurer, Williams Lea Tag How did you and Mike Richards, CEO of The Treasury Recruitment Company meet? Mike Richards and I first met when he worked at Robert Walters back in 1999. I’d been working in Banking and corporate [...]
Mike Richards, CEO and founder of the Treasury Recruitment Co, discusses the current state of the recruitment market, the impacts of technology on treasurers’ roles, and why promoting knowledge is so important to career development. Mike Richards, CEO and founder of the Treasury Recruitment Co, has more than 20 years’ experience in treasury recruitment, [...]
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Client demand for more flexible solutions to manpower staffing issues has increased rapidly over the past few years as many treasurers have had a difficult time convincing CFOs to commit resource to permanent recruitment solutions. The downside of this has been that many interim roles have been more routine often lacking challenge and/or interest [...]
Our CEO and founder, Mike Richards has sat down with Arturo from Kantox, to discuss how treasury roles are changing, whether automation will replace treasurers and more... Arturo: Are treasury roles becoming more strategic? Mike: I often hear this phrase at a variety of conferences as well as in the specialised finance media. As an example, [...]
What Do Treasury Candidates Want? The current political and economic landscape has created a certain amount of trepidation amongst treasury candidates. Let’s face it, treasury professionals prefer certainty, they like to manage risk, not put themselves at risk! For this reason, many treasury professionals can be reluctant to explore job opportunities often taking the ‘better [...]
September – you’re back from your holidays, you sit at your desk and ask yourself the question “am I still happy in my role?” Maybe you decide that you don’t want to actively seek a new role, but if a new role comes knocking - you could be persuaded. This makes you what we call [...]
Whilst the UK market has temporarily slowed, the International market has gone crazy! Mike recruited me to run our rapidly expanding International Treasury desk, I have had to learn quickly and work fast to meet demand from our clients. The hot markets across Europe continue to be Switzerland, Belgium and Germany, with The Netherlands growing once [...]
In this weekly podcast, I interview treasury professionals from across the globe about their treasury careers. I talk to them about their roles, how they built their careers, where they are now and where do they see both themselves and the treasury profession developing.
Other areas we talk about include; Career highlights and lowlights. Where they got their big break? What do they see as key to their success? Where do their careers go from here? What do they see as the future of the Treasury profession?
