The RI Finance Directors Conference

The BDO Conference Centre – Baker Street – London.

Presentations from our FD Conference on THURSDAY 16th Feb 2012

The Conference will feature inspiring and motivational recruitment leaders alongside business enhancing service providers each offering their advice and opinions all geared towards making your recruitment business even more successful.

The day will feature presentations, discussions and will feature proven ways in which you can improve the profitability of your business so CEO's & MD's are also encouraged to attend!!

Here's why you need to spend the morning at this FREE event!

Alternative funding sources from a new online source - James Siu - Market Invoice

• Running a successful accounts department from a proven industry professional, motivating non fee earners - Keith Wilmott, CFO, Venn Group.
   
• The UK economy and international expansion, where are the growth opportunities? - David O'Brien, Director, Shore Capital.
   
• How to Safeguard your business and why its time to check travel expenses and update umbrella arrangements in light of the REED, HMRC announcement - Kevin Barrow, Director, Osborne Clarke.
   
• AWR - The latest developments and how to protect your agency and customers - Jim Allison, Director, Allison & Partners.
   
• Outsourcing - Better processes and local expertise equals more than just cost savings - Alistair Gorton, CEO, Acolyte Group.
   
• Operational Improvements, where you can streamline your operation - Steve Cooney, Director, BDO
   
• How to maximise commission & bonus payments to recruiters - Lee Glaser, Director, TMS Group

Each session will be delivered by a proven industry professional that has the experience and the knowledge to help you grow your business.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

KEITH WILMOTT - CFO - VENN GROUP
 

Married with 3 Children, Keith has over 16 years' senior Finance experience within the Professional Staff Hiring sector. A qualified accountant by training, Keith has a keen interest the motivation of non-fee earners, whether through the use of KPI's or team activities. Prior to entering the world of Recruitment Keith worked within the Public Relations and Insurance sectors. Keith describes his career so far as a roller-coaster of learning, and is looking forward to his next 10 years within one of the most demanding but enjoyable business sectors.

JAMES SIU - MARKET INVOICE

Having spent the last 3 years performing statutory financial audits of middle market clients, I have a keen understanding of the challenges facing SMEs in the current economic climate.

Currently assisting SMEs with their cashflow by providing an innovative alternative to traditional invoice discounting / invoice factoring.

Marketinvoice has developed a completely flexible approach to invoice finance with the UK's first online auction site for trade receivables.

James’s talk:

The reduced lending environment combined with extended payment terms from blue-chip companies has put immense pressure on company cash flow, limiting their growth prospects.
At this conference we will discuss the offerings of emerging web-based alternative sources to traditional finance, which aim to position themselves as an effective complementary solution to channel scalable private funds to SMEs.

DAVID O'BRIEN - DIRECTOR - SHORE CAPITAL


David joined Shore Capital in November 2010 from Altium Securities. David headed up the smaller companies desk at Credit Lyonnais before moving to Altium. Prior to that he was at Credit Suisse from 1996 - 2002, joining them from Beeson Gregory. David also has 6 years of fund management experience.

A regular contributor to RI magazine, David has an excellent understanding of the recruitment industry and how the top companies out perform the markets.

KEVIN BARROW - DIRECTOR - OSBORNE CLARKE

Kevin is a partner in Osborne Clarke's contingent workforce team which advises on flexible workforce projects covering the UK, Europe, the Gulf, the Far East, Australasia and North America. Projects he and his team have advised on include most of the major international MSP and RPO deals in the UK and Europe of the last 10 years and include business protection, tax, employment and regulatory advice relating to temporary and contract staff.

Osborne Clarke has advised on deals involving most major suppliers including Manpower, Harvey Nash, Matchtech, Adecco, Randstad, Allegis, Advantage, CDI, Alexander Mann, and Hays. Osborne Clarke advises many suppliers and users of recruitment and staffing services.

Kevin has been described in the UK legal directories as the "acknowledged expert" on staffing and recruitment and speaks regularly at industry conferences.  He regularly works with the UK Government on employment and tax legislation affecting the use of temporary and contract staff.

Osborne Clarke were the law firm selected to assist the UK Government on the preparation of guidance to the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, and Osborne Clarke's advice on the use of contract staff has been adopted by the UK public sector.

TOPIC
Safeguard your business and its time to check travel expenses and update umbrella arrangements as Reed face £158m tax liability?

DAVID OKIN - TMS GROUP

David Okin has been with TMS since 2009 and was heavily involved in the original concept with the founding partner/owner Lee Glassar.

David was involved in property for 15 years and it was this experience that that proved to be invaluable when the TMS concept first started development and then when it was being rolled out to estate agents.

3 years on David heads up the sales team in TMS and is a main board director. His knowledge base on TMS is flawless and is actively promotes the company solution in the recruitment and car sales sectors, as well as property.

STEVE COONEY - DIRECTOR - BDO

Steve is a director in BDO’s operational advisory team based in London. He has over 19 years of experience assisting management teams, private equity houses and lending banks on the operational issues on acquisitions, divestments and distressed businesses.

Prior joining BDO he worked for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance and gained several years consulting and industry experience at PA Consulting Group, Ford Motor Company,  automotive components manufacturer T&N plc and Corus plc.  He holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and is also a Chartered Engineer.

Steve’s expertise covers the areas of operational  and technical due diligence, cost reduction and supply chain management across wide range of industry sectors and international locations.  This includes defining and implementing operational improvement projects across supply chain functions and back office functions in multiple industrial sectors. 

TOPIC
Operational & Working Capital Improvements – why companies are weak at introducing performance  improvements and what they can do to reduce costs and improve cash

JAMES ALLISON - DIRECTOR - ALLISON AND PARTNERS (PART OF THE STACKHOUSE POLAND GROUP)

The brokerage was established in 1978, specialising in commercial insurances from the outset. Jim’s involvement with recruitment began in the early 1990’s and has been an increasingly large part of the company’s activities ever since.

Underwriting authority, granted by Hiscox Insurance Company to provide cover directly to the recruitment industry, has allowed many opportunities to create innovative extensions of cover for recruiters, enabling them to accept non standard terms they would otherwise have to refuse.

The most recent of these is the Agency Worker Regulations where agencies once again find themselves exposed through contractual obligations. Allison and Partners have devised an insurance solution to alleviate the exposures the regulations have created. 

 ALASTAIR GORTON - MANAGING DIRECTOR - ACOLYTE RESOURCE GROUP LTD

Alastair Gorton is the managing director of Acolyte Resource Group Ltd, which provides offshore business process outsourcing, staffing and advisory solutions to help recruiters manage the burden of increasing compliance and administration. Alastair has been operating in the sub-continent for nearly a decade and is one of the leading industry experts in offshore and recruitment processes through his experiences at KPMG, Deloitte and Randstad.

SEAN HEALY - DIRECTOR -BDO LLP

This event is FREE for recruitment professionals to attend – but is STRICTLY available on a first reserved basis as spaces are at a premium.

To Register for you free places email teri@recruitment-international.co.uk and include: Your name, job title, company name and latest annual sales turnover.

* RI events are only free to recruiters, suppliers wishing to attend are charged at £90 and the number of suppliers places is limited.

THE NEXT FD FORUM WILL BE 12th SEPTEMBER 2012