Finance Mole

Insight | Finance Mole: cautious return to office working

As lockdown begins to ease, trains are getting busier as more people venture back to the office, if only for a few days a week. Finance Mole has taken the plunge and is reaping the benefits, so far, albeit just for one day a week

21 May 2021

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Insight | Finance Mole: forecasting and the first post-covid budget

Now well entrenched in a new job, Finance Mole takes a look the budget as performance improves as early signs of covid recovery appear

16 Apr 2021

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Insight | Finance Mole: recovering from a bout of Covid

Settling into his new job, Finance Mole is invited to a wine tasting to celebrate record sales performance, but struggles to enjoy the event

19 Mar 2021

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Insight | Finance Mole: zoom meetings make life difficult

Taking on a new finance role in the middle of lockdown has its challenges for Finance Mole, but month one has passed without any major calamity

19 Feb 2021

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Insight | Finance Mole: stepping up to the CFO role

In a surprise move, Finance Mole breaks with tradition and secures a challenging job at the top of the finance team

15 Jan 2021

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Insight | Finance Mole: recruitment hurdles in days of covid

Hiring a business analyst for the UK finance team is made more difficult when Finance Mole loses control of candidate selection when US-based corporate recruitment team takes the lead

11 Dec 2020

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Insight | Finance mole: well-lit cricketface brings applause

Our underground accountant reveals how the right video call lighting can increase credibility, even when playing online stick cricket while praising customer obsession

2 Oct 2020

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Insight | Finance Mole: how to dominate virtual training

Now well into lockdown, Finance Mole learns about the etiquette of online video meetings, discovering there can be an advantage to dropped internet connections

12 Jun 2020

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Insight | Finance Mole: learning to deal with lockdown

As the country refashions its way of working in the face of the covid-19 crisis, our favourite head of finance wryly recounts the first week under the new rather challenging, albeit sometimes amusing, home working regime

3 Apr 2020

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Insight | Finance Mole: finance team faces off over sales blockers

A chasm between finance and sales widens when process and efficiency disputes threaten to create an untenable blocker for Finance Mole

6 Mar 2020

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Insight | Finance Mole: passionate about SAAS, surely not?

Finance Mole takes a few moments away from the balance sheet to play spot the LinkedIn profile, but is left dazed and confused by the experience

14 Feb 2020

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Insight | Finance Mole: getting off the train at the wrong station

Finance Mole takes a break from analysing year ends and succumbs to the Christmas malaise pervading the finance department

3 Jan 2020

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Insight | Finance Mole: office politics beats election hustings

With less than a week until the election, Finance Mole is keeping his head down, avoiding irritating political insights by focusing on the Christmas raffle

6 Dec 2019

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Insight | Finance Mole: thought leaders in the firing line

Fed up with time wasting thought leaders who have no defined role, Finance Mole longs for a hands-on CFO who will focus on the detail

8 Nov 2019

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Insight | Finance Mole: lost mobile leads to assignation with phone box

After a spate of senior resignations, Finance Mole heads to Italy to eye up an acquisition but runs into trouble when he loses his mobile and hits Brexit woes

11 Oct 2019

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Insight | Finance Mole: when the summer just has to end

After a two-week summer break, it is almost a pleasure for Finance Mole to get back to work and resume his days of wrangling with the numbers

6 Sep 2019

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