Kevin Briggs

There are some basic skills that an interim finance manager needs:

• Financial planning and analysis
• Implement or improve financial reporting
• Project accounting
• Yearend and other due diligence
• Financial modelling
• Working capital and cashflow management
• The special case of the business case
• Consolidations
• IFRS conversion strategy

At the finance number 1 level in a large organisation, these hands-on skills may be not so as important as other skills that an accountant learns in training, such as reviewing numbers, asking questions about specific variances to budget and about the unexpected compared to what's actually happening in a business. However without the basic skills, these advanced skills will not be useful.

The pages behind these links examine my specific hands-on experience in these areas, either as a number 1 or as a number 2.