ICAEW South West: FD and CFO insight group | 2026

Event Information This confidential virtual insight group for Finance Directors and Chief Finance Officers across the South West provides a platform to share strategic insights and discuss the practical challenges faced at a senior level. Connect with peers, expand your professional network, and refine your commercial and technical skills in a supportive setting, offering valuable peer-to-peer support and advice.

Who Should Attend?

This group is ideally suited for:

• Senior finance leadership | Finance Directors or Chief Finance Officers within large UK and multi-national organisations, across all commercial sectors.

• SME leaders | Senior finance professionals with FD-level responsibility in small and medium-sized UK businesses, spanning all commercial sectors.

• Transitioning professionals | Senior finance professionals below the main board or C-suite level transitioning into their first Finance Director or Chief Finance Officer role.

Why You Should Attend

• Confidential peer support | All sessions are confidential, offering participants the opportunity for open discussion, seeking advice on common issues, and posing questions to like-minded professionals at a senior level.

• Professional growth | Strengthen professional networks, build new business relationships, seek insights from peers, and refine commercial and technical skills to enhance capabilities as an evolving finance professional.

• Trusted network | Benefit from having a trusted network of similar professionals for advice, guidance, and peer-to-peer support, particularly valuable for those who are the sole senior finance professional in their business.

• Open discussion | Meetings are facilitated, encouraging all participants to actively contribute to open, lively, and insightful discussions, drawing on diverse industry experiences from across the South West.

Discussion Structure

While there is typically no set agenda (unless requested by delegates), participants are encouraged to bring specific topics for discussion, which should be submitted to the event organiser in advance.

Previous topics have included:

• Cyber Security

• Fraud

• Salary sacrifice schemes

• The wider economy

• AI

• Payrolling of benefits in kind

Attendance is free of charge and open to ICAEW members only.