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3:00pm - 5:00pm, 22 May 2025
(Europe/London)
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
FD Forum
Thursday 22nd May
Registrations and refreshments 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Saffery, Fifth Floor, 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4BE
Networking drinks from 5:00pm
Kindly sponsored by
Meeting Agenda
3:00pm Welcome & introduction
Keith Wilmott, CFO, Venn Group
3:05pm APSCo update
Tania Bowers, Public Policy Director, APSCo
3:15pm The UK Economy in a changing world
Giles Andrews, Senior Economist, Santander
Giles in his segment will answer some important questions:
- How has the UK economy performed over the past few years?
- What is the current state of the UK economy?
- What are the key risks to the economic outlook?
3:45pm Managing costs
Jamie Cassell, Partner, Saffery
In a world of rising costs and other recruitment challenges, recruitment businesses are having to navigate tough times and find new ways to stay competitive. In this session, Jamie Cassell will explore options on managing costs to ensure your business is as efficient as possible, as well as looking at sound compliance and diligence, if you are currently or in the future looking at M&A.
4:15pm Open Discussion
Tania will facilitate an open discussion with the members and our experts, giving you opportunity to share ideas and experiences.
Speakers
Giles Andrews
Santander, Economist
Giles Andrews is a UK Economist at Santander UK providing economic analysis, scenario analysis, forecasts and commentary on the UK economy and principal retail financial business markets. His areas of focus and interest include deposits trends, the corporate sector, housing and public finances. Prior to joining Santander UK, he worked at Haver Analytics and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Jamie Cassell
Saffery, Head of the Recruitment Sector Group
Jamie joined Saffery Champness’ Business Advisory Group in 2014, after spending the majority of his career at a top six accountancy firm. Throughout his career, he has worked with highly skilled entrepreneurs of owner-managed businesses, as well as venture capital and private equity backed companies, international groups and AIM listed companies.
Jamie’s priority is to provide exceptional client service and ensure that he and his team deliver on this all year round. He builds close relationships with his clients and meets with them regularly to discuss commercial and strategic developments, as well as identifying and addressing key issues that will help the companies continue to grow and develop.
He has experience of dealing with a wide range of UK GAAP/US GAAP and IFRS technical issues, as well as assisting on acquisitions and disposals of businesses through transactional support services.
Jamie’s clients have come from a wide range of sectors that include technology, media and telecoms, manufacturing, retail and recruitment. A number of his audit clients have been in the technology sector, where he has helped companies grow from start-ups to strong established businesses.
Through leading the audit of a number of international groups, he has gained experience of dealing with international offices and overseas matters in countries such as USA, Germany and Czech Republic.