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Multi-Currency Accounts
GBP, currency and holding accounts.
International Payments
Money transfers for business.
Currency Risk Management
Minimise effect of FX volatility.
Payroll Payments
Reduce payment timelines by 3+ days.
Supplier Payments
Faster payments for AP teams.
Expense Management
Complete platform that flexes to your business.
Embedded Finance
Add bank-like functionality via API.
Join Our Networks
Career Collective
Multi-Currency Accounts
GBP, currency and holding accounts.
International Payments
Money transfers for business.
Currency Risk Management
Minimise effect of FX volatility.
Payroll Payments
Reduce payment timelines by 3+ days.
Supplier Payments
Faster payments for AP teams.
Expense Management
Complete platform that flexes to your business.
Embedded Finance
Add bank-like functionality via API.
Join Our Networks
Career Collective
Jane-Emma Peerless is the Director of People and Chief Commercial Officer at Caxton. Jane-Emma worked at both the Financial Times and Financial News before joining Caxton in 2008.
As People Director, Jane-Emma has spent the last 15 years formulating Caxton’s culture and people policies. Prior to that, she ran the Global Sales Division of the newspaper ‘Financial News’ and was Advertisement Director of ‘FT Business’. She brings this vast expertise and experience to Caxton, where she oversees the HR function and Corporate business – leading the latter’s development of payment products and services.
As Director of People, Jane-Emma has been a key player in developing Caxton’s culture and people policies for 15 years. Her varied passions and talents for employee well-being, performance management and professional development has allowed the business to thrive in rapidly changing circumstances, including maintaining strong business performance both in the 2008 financial crisis and the recent pandemic. In her years at Caxton she has curated a flexible culture which puts people first, allows for a strong work-life balance and ultimately helps the business and its people to work towards a common goal. The values led culture she has created promotes agility, transparency, collaboration and high performance.
A graduate of St Andrews University Jane-Emma’s commercial experience at a senior level has enabled her to span successfully across all areas of HR. She is passionate about financial well-being and education and writes regularly on issues which seek a collaboration between HR and finance teams for the benefit of employees. Jane-Emma sits on the Caxton Board, is a recent Chairman of Membership of the Hurlingham Club and is a Trustee of adult literacy charity, Read Easy.
Supporting your employees has changed. The employment contract is fundamentally about an exchange of money, but top talent want more than just a salary. They want interesting work, and more and more employers are being called on to provide not only financial benefits but also to support with an employee’s emotional wellbeing and fulfilment. Being a modern employer means understanding how to best provide what your top talent wants, and ensure that your best people can do their best work. Listen to our Director of People Jane-Emma Peerless talk about how a robust financial wellbeing policy is only the start to being an innovative employer who continuously attracts top talent.
Check out Jane-Emma's LinkedIn and content she regularly posts including the HR Money Blog.
Most recently Jane-Emma has spoken and written about the importance of financial wellness and the small changes that can have a big impact on employees when it comes to financial awareness and health. She talked about the need to revolutionise our approach to how we pay our people and modernise payroll at the Reward and Payroll Summit in November 2022.
Jane-Emma was a guest speaker on a webinar event with the CFO in partnership with Caxton. At the event participants discussed: 1) Key findings from Caxton’s research report on expense management in 2022. 2) How transformational leadership in finance is key to employee satisfaction. 3) How automation can help businesses bear the brunt of the recession. 4) Ways to unlock valuable resources to ensure strategic advantage and business growth.
Between 2014 and 2016 she was a regular contributor to the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme in partnership with University College London, educating entrepreneurs into handling every day people issues and common problems.
As a director and executive of an independent British business, Jane-Emma is an advocate for supporting and inspiring the founders and directors of other home grown, like minded companies. She believes that British businesses should be able to offer each other a support network; sharing their own knowledge and experience to help and learn from each other. She founded and regularly spoke at the Building British Business (BBB) event series, which provided a forum for inspirational entrepreneurs to share their stories and to network. Though the events were paused due to Covid-19, the network continues to support entrepreneurs in a variety of ways.
Why are UK workers taking more sick days - and should employers be worried?
Absences from work due to illness hit a record high in 2022, recent government figures show, while experts say public health is getting worse.
Jane-Emma gives her insights on how Caxton have halved absences.
Can you keep employees happy without a pay rise?
It's time for performance reviews at many companies. If firms are unable to offer pay rises, investing in professional development and keeping communication open can help re-energise employees.
Jane-Emma gives her views on how they go beyond pay rises to help keep employees happy and motivated.
Need an expert opinion or article? Jane-Emma regularly contributes to industry publications
Jane-Emma contributed to an Experian article on the current state of payroll today and the solutions to improve it going forward. To view the Experian article please contact team@caxton.io
Contact the team about having Jane-Emma speak at your event, participate in your round table discussion, or offer a quote for your publication.