Read the market with more context
Understand the signals around senior finance hiring, leadership expectation and the conditions shaping the strongest opportunities.
FCP MARKET BRIEFING Friday 6 November 2026 · 12:00 pm GMT
See the senior finance market from the hiring side.
Your next finance move starts before a vacancy appears. Join Lawrence Pammen for a free market briefing on what boards and CEOs value, how senior opportunities take shape and three actions to strengthen your position now.
01THE BRIEFING
A decision, not a download
A sharper market view changes the quality of your next career decision.
Senior finance careers are shaped long before a vacancy reaches a job board. This briefing gives you a calmer, more informed way to assess your position, your options and the next move worth making.
Explore the agendaWhat you will leave with
Relevant market context.
A practical next step.
Not generic career advice. A focused executive-search perspective on the questions that tend to matter before the next appointment, promotion or leadership transition.
See your position through a boardroom lens
Identify the gap between a record of responsibility and a commercial leadership story that senior stakeholders can quickly understand.
Choose one action worth taking now
Leave with a clear prompt to strengthen your career position, build relevant access or make the right next decision with more intent.
02WORKING AGENDA
The executive market briefing
What the session covers.
The briefing is designed to create perspective without handing you a generic template or pretending every finance career needs the same answer.
- 01
The market beneath the visible market
What tends to shape senior finance appointments before an organisation begins advertising widely.
- 02
From finance delivery to leadership value
The questions that help an experienced operator express commercial relevance, judgement and readiness for a larger remit.
- 03
Three career moments that need different support
How the right route changes when you are building toward FD, making a move, or establishing yourself in role.
- 04
Your next relevant move
A simple way to decide whether a private FCP conversation, a route diagnostic or focused independent action is right for you now.
Built for the moment you are in
One career. Different
points of leverage.
BUILDING TOWARDS FD
Make the next leadership step more deliberate.
For Financial Controllers, Heads of Finance and ambitious finance leaders strengthening the capability, commercial judgement and career position for a larger remit.
Explore FCP AscentMAKING YOUR NEXT MOVE
Build the position and access for a senior transition.
For CFOs, Finance Directors and senior finance leaders who are assessing an active, time-bound next move.
Explore FCP SelectBUILDING AUTHORITY IN ROLE
Keep the right perspective around the role you have won.
For newly appointed and in-role finance leaders who want relevant peer context, mentor rhythm and executive intelligence.
Explore FCP Authority03YOUR HOST
Executive-search perspective
A briefing led by someone who understands the market from the inside.
LP
FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE-SEARCH PRACTITIONER / AUTHOR
Lawrence Pammen
Lawrence Pammen is the founder of Finance Career Programme, author of UNRECRUITABLE and a business owner with 20+ years in executive search. A former Fortune 500 search division leader, he has built and led recruitment and advisory businesses and placed senior finance leaders into PE-backed, listed and scaling organisations internationally. He turns that hiring-side intelligence into practical systems that help FCP members build stronger positioning, relevant access and a more deliberate next move.
Continue the thinking
Be hard to overlook
before you need to move.
UNRECRUITABLE is Lawrence Pammen’s commercial career strategy book for professionals who want to build relevance, stronger market access and genuine career optionality before their next move becomes urgent.
Explore UNRECRUITABLEJOIN THE NEXT SESSION
Reserve your place
in the briefing.
Join the FCP Zoom Webinar for a focused senior-finance market update, practical perspective and a clear next step for your career position.
- FORMAT
- FCP Zoom Webinar
- NEXT SESSION
- Friday 6 November 2026 · 12:00 pm GMT
- INVESTMENT
- Complimentary
FCP MARKET BRIEFING
Your next move deserves more than a job-board strategy.
Register through ZoomRegistration opens the official Zoom Webinar form. Event details and reminders will come from Zoom.
AFTER THE BRIEFING
Turn a clearer view
into the right conversation.
If the briefing makes it clear that you need a more deliberate route, start with the Finance Route diagnostic. It takes about two minutes, identifies the FCP route most relevant to your current situation and directs you to the appropriate conversation if one is the right next step.
04BEFORE YOU JOIN
Questions, answered
Useful context before you register.
Who is the FCP Market Briefing for?
It is for finance leaders who want more context around a future move, a larger remit or the leadership position they are building. The diagnostic will help you identify which FCP route is most relevant to your current moment.
What happens during the briefing?
You will receive a focused senior-finance market update, practical perspective on your next move and a clear route to the most relevant FCP resources if you decide you need more support.
Will the briefing give me a complete job-search system?
No. It gives a valuable market perspective and a practical prompt for the next move. FCP programmes provide structured support where a deeper career-position, access or leadership route is appropriate.
What happens after the briefing?
You can take the Finance Route diagnostic to identify a relevant next step. If a private conversation is a good fit, you can then book one to discuss your situation and the route in more detail.