The event for UK finance directors

The FDs' Excellence Award are the biggest accolade for UK finance directors. Hosted by Real Business in association with ICAEW, and supported by the CBI, the awards recognise the UK's best FDs - and their service providers.

The awards are broken up into three categories: The FDs' Awards are decided by nominations; The Excellence Awards by votes; and The FTSE FDs' Awards by research. The winners are then announced at our gala awards ceremony in May.

Who's the best FD you know? Tell us about them by submitting a quick nomination now. You can also submit a full entry and take part in The Excellence Awards survey.

Categories

FDs' Awards

A recognition for FDs – and their teams – both at board level and within the finance function. The awards seek to identify and celebrate finance directors and leaders in UK-based businesses that exemplify the very best of this role.

Finance directors can be nominated or can nominate themselves for one of the following categories:

Young FD of the Year – We're looking for someone under 40 who can "speak the language" and has, on more than one occasion, saved the day.

Private Company FD of the Year – This award is for FDs who don't say no to a challenge.

FD of the Future – We want to hear about promising future FDs who have gone above and beyond the call of duty.

Full criteria can be found when you submit a full entry. Nomination deadline: March 2, 2012.

Quick nominate  Submit a full entry

The Excellence Awards

The Excellence Awards recognise business banks, auditors (big six and mid-tier), financial software suppliers and recruitment firms.

These awards are determined by votes cast by FDs in our annual FDs' Satisfaction Survey, which was completed by 1,000 finance directors and finance decision-makers in 2011.

If you provide services to FDs and want to be considered for an FDs' Excellence Award encourage your clients to fill out the survey. Entry deadline: March 2, 2012.

If you provide services to FDs and want to be considered for an FDs' Excellence Award encourage your clients to fill out the survey.

As an incentive, everyone that completes the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win a one-nights stay at The London Marriott Hotel. Entry deadline: March 2, 2012.

Take part

FTSE FDs' Awards

Recognising superb finance directors at the peak of their powers, across a range of company types. The FTSE FDs' Awards are based on financial research conducted with information specialist Jordans and CEO testimonials.

The FTSE FDs' awards categories are: FTSE 100 FD of the Year, FTSE 250 FD of the Year, Small Quoted FD of the Year.

Updates:

Sponsors

The FDs' Excellence Awards are proudly sponsored by:

Partners

Shortlist

The shortlist will be announced after nominations have closed on March 2, 2012.

Judges

Judges will be announced in the new year.

Ensuring quality

We take the quality of our results seriously, we subject our results to a set of stringent rules to ensure the highest of quality.

  • More than 80% complete
  • De-duplication against email and domain
  • Must contain valid email address
  • (95th percentile) checked against anti-gaming algorithm

Testimonials

Greggs really wants to support the communities that it operates in, we genuinely want to be a sustainable business and it is great to see that that sort of behaviour is recognised

Richard Hutton, Greggs, Winner of the Sustainable Business Award

On the night

May 24, 2012 — London Marriott, Grosvenor Square

Join us for an evening of celebration at the 2012 FDs' Excellence Awards. Hosted by Real Business, in association with ICAEW and supported by the CBI, we'll honour CFOs and FDs from FTSE 100 firms and private businesses, commend young FDs and the FDs of the future; and discover which service providers – auditors, banks and software houses – have most satisfied their FD customers.

All tickets include a champagne reception, three-course meal and limited wine at your table. For more information, please contact Alexis Carlson on 0207 045 7500.

New this year, we’re introducing an "early bird" ticket offer, which will run until March 15, 2011. Be sure to buy your ticket before then for the best saving.

Table for 12: £2,000 (£2,200 after March 15, 2011) · Table for 10: £1,800 (£2,000 after March 15, 2011) · Single place: £180 (£220 after March 15, 2011)

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