Wake Up Call: Optimise financial operations to support your growth and sustainability
BCI Webinar
Oakwood’s Finance Director, Natalie Brown offers insight on how a SME can run a successful finance operation, enabling you to thrive in a competitive environment. For a small agency this is crucial for maintaining financial health, enabling growth, and ensuring that all business activities are supported with the necessary resources.
This session will be particularly useful for small agency owners and founders – individuals who own or have founded small agencies and are responsible for overseeing all aspects of the business, including financial operations. As well as finance managers in smaller agencies, administrative professionals, freelancers looking to scale and non-financial executives. This guide would also benefit those who may not have a deep background in finance but are looking to optimise financial operations to support the growth and sustainability of their agency.
About Natalie
Bean counter at Oakwood for the last 12 years, Natalie has been working in finance since the tender age of 16, when she got her first job in a building company, as a Purchase Ledger Clerk. She has worked primarily in agencies, aside from one beautiful summer working in Cornwall for St Aubyn Estates, which was a brilliant job, notable for having massive bags of cash to count from the car park and the boat fees!
‘I have approached my work in a methodical way and have evolved my reporting and way of working to match the fast pace of agency life. I wouldn’t work anywhere else as it’s not a standard finance job… every client, every job throws up unique challenges which necessitate an agile finance structure without compromising our bottom line and cash flow.’
Oakwood are an independent B2B Brand and Communications agency based in the centre of Bristol and have managed two recessions and the ups and downs of financial uncertainty in the creative sector for nearly 30 years.
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These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
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