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ACCA’s Sectors and Communities team brings you conversations with members from across the profession, exploring career journeys, trends, and insights shaping finance today.
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Janine Rennie FCCA – Resilience built from a determination to beat the odds (opens the original)
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Despite being told at 25 that a lupus diagnosis would mean only having 5 years to live and never being able to have children, Janine has beaten the odds to build a 30 year career in the third sector and has three grown up children. Currently working as an elected councillor for Clackmannanshire Council, as well as the CEO of Money Advice Scotland, Janine’s desire to create an impact which makes a real difference in people’s lives is definitely being realised. Learn more about her story in this e
Journey to CFO in partnership with BDO: Maria Ghibu (opens the original)
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With more than 20 years’ experience across technology, biotech and financial services, Maria has held senior roles including CFO, COO, CEO and Non-Executive Director. She has led businesses through finance transformation, fundraising, M&A, international growth and periods of rapid change. Alongside her career in finance and leadership, Maria also makes time for her creative pursuits, including Pilates, writing and painting. In this episode, she shares her journey to CFO, the experiences that hav
Finance redefined: Making digital investment work (opens the original)
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What happens when the technology is chosen, the transformation begins, and finance has to make it work in the real world? In this episode of Finance Redefined, Clare Elliott FCCA, Group CFO at NetSupport, draws on her experience of leading finance transformation to explore the decisions and lessons behind making digital investment work in practice. She discusses how to identify the problems worth solving, decide where technology can genuinely add value, navigate implementation and bring people w
The Resilient Accountant: Steph Beeston-Clarke FCCA, finding resilience through helping others (opens the original)
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Hear from Steph Beeston-Clarke FCCA as she speaks to Donna Beddis FCCA about her determination to use her qualification and knowledge to provide advice and guidance to help others, how her "charity chatter" series seeks to support smaller charities and CICs, how she and her team ensure each others' wellbeing and how her plans for moving to Lanzarote will still involve providing an excellent service to clients, with an extra "chilled" perspective!
At the 4 Front: From curiosity to global leadership with Cristina Gutu FCCA (opens the original)
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Cristina reflects on her journey from starting her career in Romania, where international opportunities once felt out of reach, to becoming ACCA Vice President and Director with KPMG (L&D Lead). Cristina shares how curiosity, discipline and a willingness to embrace opportunities before feeling fully ready helped shape her career, and why she believes the most successful careers are built through small, consistent choices rather than perfectly planned paths. She also reflects on how the Big Four
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