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Anton Roe

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Bridging the gap in high performance: a finance perspective

While meeting financial goals is the overall objective for many organisations, achieving and sustaining them in the long term requires a strong, high-performing culture. People across any organisation need to work well together to boost productivity, efficiency and growth. However, misalignment between business leaders and the workforce on how to ...

25 March 2025 /people High performing teams

How we can blend creativity with caution across the finance department

The finance department is known for saying no – but often with good reason. It might be no to projects, technologies, or trying a new service, but whatever the ask, they hold the purse strings and have the power. However, every part of managing an organisation is a fine balance. We need the practical rationalisers as much as we need the creative

04 February 2025 /people Innovation in Financial Services

Driving UK growth in 2025: Big steps to stimulate business productivity

In 2025 the UK economy is expected to grow modestly with GDP predicted to rise by 1.5%. While this marks an improvement from recent years, the UK continues to lag other major global economies such as the US and Germany. External factors and macroeconomic conditions have affected productivity and investment, contributing to this slowdown in growth...

13 December 2024 /regulation /predictions

Finance in 2025 – acting on the value of interconnecting and streamlined systems

The demand for real-time information is only continuing to grow as businesses process an ever-increasing amount of data. To manage this optimally, finance departments need a way to streamline their various business functions into a single platform, improving data accuracy and accessibility. We’re seeing organisations looking to integrate, or bett

27 November 2024 /regulation /predictions Financial Transformation

Innovation for the sake of it is detrimental to business growth

The finance team sits at the heart of a business's development. To maintain growth, this department has a central role to play in making sure the organisation's wider objectives and goals ladder up to growing revenue and profit. However, the finance team can sometimes be seen as a blocker across the company. Money is often the difference between w

10 October 2024 /people Innovation in Financial Services

AI – a useful tool for finance professionals, or a hindrance?

Finance is a vital part of any organisation because it touches every part of the business. It impacts how the business grows, including the solutions a company chooses to invest in; the cybersecurity strategy it adopts; all while ensuring risk and compliance are managed effectively. This makes the finance team one of the busiest in the company. I

11 September 2024 /ai /people Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services