This is how you staff the IR function in small corporations.

How you staff and organize yourself for the work with the dialogue with the financial market depends on the access to resources and competence. If you cannot designate one full position to take care of investor relations, different tasks can be allocated as described below.

Some tasks are purely administrative and can be solved by administrative staff.

Some tasks are similar to the tasks that are often solved by a controller or a business analyst and can be solved by people in such positions.

Some tasks are similar to the tasks solved in a treasury function or by the person or people responsible for regular contact with the bank(s). In a corporation that issues debt capital instruments, there will be an overlap of tasks with the person or persons who work with communication related to equity instruments.

Regardless of the organization, the corporation's CFO must experience and be seen as, being responsible for communication with those who finance the corporation's operations.

In smaller corporations, you can manage without dedicated resources for financial communication, by distributing tasks as described above.

When using dedicated resources, the choice of profile must be governed by what expertise is otherwise available in the corporation. In some corporations, a role as an investor relations manager can be a good recruitment position. In other corporations, the composition of the team implies that the role is filled by an experienced professional.

Working with financial communication requires expertise in accounting and finance, insight into relevant laws and regulations as well as good communication skills.

What is most important is that the person in charge understands the necessity for investors to have trust in the corporation, and what this implies.