Accountancy Capital recruits qualified finance professionals at £50,000 and above — permanent, interim and fractional — for growing businesses across the UK. This hub is the map of everything we do: the roles we place, the specialist practices we run, and the resources that help you brief a search well. If you already know what you need, tell us about your hire and you will have a same-day response; if you are still shaping the role, start here.
Who we are and how we work
We are a specialist, founder-led firm, not a volume agency. Accountancy Capital was founded by Adrian Lawrence FCA — a Fellow of the ICAEW and former listed-company finance director — and every search is run by people who have sat on the hiring side of the desk. We work exclusively above the £50,000 line, where the difference between a good hire and an adequate one shows up in the month-end close, the audit, and the numbers the board steers by. Our process is deliberately simple: a proper briefing conversation, a shortlist of qualification-verified candidates in five to seven working days (48–72 hours for interim), and honest advice throughout — including telling you when the role you have specified is not the role you need.
The roles we recruit
Qualified finance — the core practice. The professional spine of a finance function, from first qualified hire to group leadership:
- Management Accountant — the close, the pack, the analysis; usually the first £50k+ hire a growing business makes
- Financial Accountant — statutory reporting, technical accounting and audit ownership
- Finance Manager — the function’s day-to-day leader beneath FC level
- Finance Business Partner and FP&A — the commercial and planning side of qualified finance
- Head of Finance — the senior seat in smaller functions
- Financial Controller and Group Financial Controller — our deepest specialism, with dedicated pages for first FCs, PE-backed businesses, post-acquisition appointments and more
- Finance Director, Group FD, Chief Financial Officer and Group CFO — senior appointments, run jointly with our sister brand FD Capital where board-level depth is needed
- CIPFA-qualified accountants — public services and not-for-profit finance
Tax. A dedicated tax recruitment practice covering in-house and practice moves: corporate tax, private client tax, tax investigations and VAT.
FCA-regulated firms. Finance professionals for regulated businesses is a practice of its own, because the roles are different: CASS and client money accountants, regulatory reporting, and Financial Controllers for FCA-regulated firms across asset management, payments, fintech, insurance intermediaries and investment firms. The full practice is mapped on our FCA-regulated recruitment hub.
AI-capable finance teams. Finance is changing shape, and we recruit for it deliberately — professionals who combine the qualification with genuine data and automation fluency. See AI finance recruitment.
Permanent, interim or fractional — choosing the engagement
Every role above can be filled three ways, and part of our job is helping you choose. Permanent builds the team; it is the right answer for enduring roles and the only answer for cultural cornerstones. Interim solves time-bound problems — maternity cover, sudden departures, projects, audit rescues — with qualified professionals on day rates, shortlisted within 48–72 hours. Fractional buys senior expertise by the day: an experienced FC or FD one or two days a week, for businesses that need the seniority but not yet the salary. If you are unsure which fits, the briefing call settles it in ten minutes — and costs nothing.
Where we work
We recruit UK-wide from London, with dedicated market pages for London, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge, plus international appointments for UK-headquartered groups. Hybrid and remote roles are now standard across qualified finance, and our candidate network reflects it.
Resources for hiring well
Three libraries support every search on this site. The salary guides benchmark every role we place, updated for 2026. The job description library gives you a proper specification to start from rather than a blank page. And the Knowledge Centre holds our guides on hiring, interviewing and structuring finance teams — written by practitioners, not marketers. Our case studies show how recent mandates ran.
For candidates
If you are a qualified finance professional — or a finalist on the way — the jobs board carries our live permanent, interim and fractional mandates, and registering as a candidate puts you in front of roles before they are advertised. We work with candidates the way we work with clients: straight answers, real market information, and no CV-scattering.
A Note from Our Founder — Adrian Lawrence FCA
We made a deliberate decision to focus Accountancy Capital exclusively on qualified finance at £50,000 and above. Not because transactional finance roles do not matter — they do — but because specialist recruitment only works when the recruiter genuinely knows the market they serve. Every role on this page is one we understand from the inside: I have hired for these seats, sat in several of them, and built finance teams around them. That focus is why our shortlists are short, our timelines are quick, and our clients come back.
Adrian Lawrence FCA
Founder, Accountancy Capital — Fellow of the ICAEW. Verify via ICAEW.
Ready to brief a search?
Same-day response on every brief. Permanent shortlists in 5–7 working days; interim in 48–72 hours.