Senior Finance
Recruitment
in Manchester

We deliver recruitment support through our partnership with Hallidays HR, built specifically for senior finance recruitment. Rather than leaving you to interview blind, our team helps shape the job brief, sits in on the assessment stage and brings real commercial understanding to the process.

The search for a Finance Director, Financial Controller or Management Accountant is grounded in what your business actually needs, not just a job description. If you are hiring finance talent for the first time or replacing a departing team member, our recruitment support gives you a structured, tailored path from brief to appointment.

Traditional recruitment agencies focus on filling a role. Our approach to senior finance recruitment adds a layer of financial and business expertise that typical agencies cannot offer, because the same team that understands your accounts also shapes the recruitment brief and assesses candidates. As a result, candidates are tested not only on technical finance skills but also on genuine fit with your business goals and culture.

For owner-managed businesses working through growth, funding rounds or corporate finance talent acquisition, this kind of finance recruitment business support reduces the risk of a costly mis-hire and results in appointments that hold up beyond the first few months in the role.

Timelines vary depending on the seniority of the role and how tightly the brief is defined at the outset, but we work with Hallidays HR to keep the process efficient from day one. Because Hallidays HR pre-screens candidates against your brief, you won't sift through unsuitable CVs before you can hire finance talent.

Our involvement in shaping the brief early on also reduces delays later, since a clear brief attracts the right applicants faster. Businesses looking to hire finance talent quickly benefit greatly when the role, culture fit and technical requirements are agreed before the search begins.

Yes. Our recruitment support does not sit in isolation from the rest of your business planning. Many clients bring in Hallidays HR to fill a senior finance role while reviewing wider strategy with us, since a new Finance Director or Controller often needs to work closely with the team shaping that plan.

Combining our support with wider planning means the person you hire understands not just the numbers, but the direction the business is heading, and it's one reason clients return to us for future finance recruitment business support needs. If your search comes alongside a wider strategy review, our business advisory team can support that conversation too.

Our recruitment service focuses on senior finance recruitment rather than broad-based hiring, so it covers roles with real financial responsibility, including positions that lead on deals, funding, and growth planning. If your business is scaling and needs support with corporate finance talent acquisition, we can work with Hallidays HR to shape a brief around that specific commercial context.

As a result, the recruitment process and the underlying commercial strategy stay aligned from the outset, rather than being treated as two separate exercises. Our corporate finance team can advise on the structure of the role itself if the position sits close to deals or funding work.

Finance recruitment business support is not limited to board-level roles. Businesses preparing for growth or a more complex audit often need to strengthen the finance function underneath the Finance Director, and we work with Hallidays HR to identify candidates suited to that level of responsibility.

Getting the right people in place before an audit cycle begins reduces pressure on your existing team and keeps reporting on schedule. For finance support tied closely to audit timing, our audit services team is often involved early, since it depends heavily on who sits within the finance function.

Our recruitment support with Hallidays HR can extend to roles with a strong tax focus, such as a Finance Director expected to oversee compliance alongside day-to-day reporting. Where a role leans heavily on tax matters, we can help shape the technical requirements in the brief, so Hallidays HR knows exactly what depth of tax knowledge to screen for.

Senior finance recruitment of this kind, much like corporate finance talent acquisition, benefits from having subject matter experts involved before the search starts, rather than finding a skills gap once a candidate is already in post. If a role leans heavily on tax matters, our tax planning specialists can help shape those requirements from the outset.

Recruitment is only the first step. Once you hire finance talent through Hallidays HR, we continue to provide finance support around the role itself, from onboarding through to ongoing systems and reporting. A new Finance Director or Controller is not left to build processes from scratch, since we already understand the numbers, the systems, and the people involved.

For businesses that hire finance talent through this partnership, that ongoing finance support is often what makes the appointment successful in the long run. Our payroll services team can pick up wider payroll needs too if the new hire will manage a larger team.

Any owner-managed business planning to appoint a Finance Director, Financial Controller or Management Accountant should get in touch with us before starting the search. If you are replacing someone or building a finance function for the first time, early conversations about hiring finance talent help us and Hallidays HR shape a brief that reflects where your business is heading commercially.

Businesses that already work with us on accounts, audit or advisory tend to gain real value from this partnership, since we already understand the financial context behind the role. Contact us to start the conversation.