What We Recruit
Finance Operations & Shared Services Recruitment
Leadership of shared services and finance operations, including payroll, credit, accounts payable, accounts receivable and transactional finance.
Roles We Recruit
Understanding The Brief
This is leadership and specialist recruitment, not high-volume transactional hiring. We focus on professionals who lead accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit, billing, payroll, revenue operations and broader shared services teams. Strong finance operations leaders bring structure, accountability and continuous improvement to the functions that shape cash flow, supplier relationships, employee experience and reporting reliability every day.
Market Perspective
What's actually happening in this market.
Finance operations is easy to underestimate until it starts failing. Slow processes, weak controls or an under-led team quickly affect suppliers, customers, employees and the quality of management information. Cost pressure and working-capital discipline have increased demand for leaders who can improve control, cash conversion and service levels, not simply process more volume.
Offshoring, shared services and automation continue to change where transactional work sits and what onshore leadership needs to deliver. The bar is now higher. Leaders must run high-volume teams with consistency, keep people engaged in repetitive environments and drive process improvement rather than only keeping the function moving. In SMEs, the remit is usually broad and hands-on. In larger organisations, it often sits within a national, regional or global shared services model with more governance, more technology and more stakeholders.
What We Assess
What good looks like at this level.
Process improvement
Identifies where volume, delay and manual effort can be removed, then follows the change through.
Leadership at scale
Has led larger, high-volume teams with clear standards, accountability and sustained engagement.
Service and stakeholder focus
Understands that finance operations is a service function with a direct impact across the business.
Systems and automation
Uses technology confidently to strengthen control, improve visibility and reduce avoidable work.
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