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I’ve known some of the FDs and FCs in my network for almost 2 decades. I met some when I was a fresh faced 23 year old in my first recruitment role in Manchester – some of them had [...]

Who are the happiest FDs and how do you optimise your chances of joining that elusive group?! I’ve met / interviewed over 3000 FDs in my career so far. Thousands of impressively capable [...]

Every day I speak to C-suite execs, business owners, investors, FDs, FCs and qualified accountants. All day. Every day. For the past 20 years. And over time, particularly if you’re a proper nerd [...]

Do you need to pay your FD £100k or £200k? (and what on earth does the LTIP need to look and sound like?) You’re an SME in the £5m – £100m bracket. You know you need a qualified finance [...]

Clients ask us all the time “how’s the market?” and right now it’s harder than ever to give a succinct summary. The closest I can describe the market would be that it has [...]

Wow… that was a busy January! So is it time to slice the top off a couple of champagne bottles with a sharpened sword – errrm probably not.  But are there signs of life in the market – [...]

Wow. Nearly there. 30 sleeps until Christmas. So, what have been the themes of 2025 for the clients we work with and what’s their current outlook for the year ahead? Well, it’s been tough in the [...]

There’s loads of candidates on the market, right? It’s a client’s market, yeah?  So why are we finding it so hard to recruit this role? This is a common conversation of the last 8 – 12 [...]

What a funny old H1 it’s been. The accountancy and finance job market / candidate market and general recruitment landscape over the past 5 years has been weird! Very changeable, red hot then [...]

We discuss a version of this question tons from 3rd Jan to pretty much 31st Jan every year with LOADS of different types of people. Often Xmas is a time to decompress and get some needed [...]