Accountancy and Finance Candidates: Find Your Next Role

Accountancy Capital works with qualified finance professionals at £50,000 and above. If you are a Financial Controller, Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner, FP&A Manager, Management Accountant, Financial Accountant, Group Financial Controller or Tax Manager — or if you are working towards those roles — this section contains the resources we have produced to help you manage your career, prepare for senior finance interviews and understand your market value.

Our candidate relationships are the foundation of what we do. The best roles we fill are never advertised publicly — they go to candidates in our network who have registered their requirements with us and who we contact directly when a relevant opportunity arises. If you are qualified or near-qualified and earning at or approaching £50,000, register with us and a consultant will contact you to understand your background and what you are looking for.

Find a Role

Resource What It Covers
Accountancy Jobs Board Live vacancies across all qualified finance roles — Financial Controller, FM, MA, FBP, FP&A, Tax and more. Updated regularly. Roles at £50,000 and above.
Register as a Candidate Register your details and requirements with Accountancy Capital. We will contact you directly when we have a role that matches your profile — including roles that are never advertised publicly.
Graduate and Temporary Finance Jobs Information on temporary and graduate-entry finance roles. Note: these fall below our standard recruitment threshold. For roles at £50,000+, register directly.

Register with Accountancy Capital

The best qualified finance roles at £50,000 and above are filled through direct candidate relationships, not job boards. Register your details and we will contact you when we have a role that matches your background and what you are looking for.

Register as a Candidate →  or call 0204 553 8893

Interview Preparation

Senior finance interviews at Financial Controller, Finance Manager and FBP level are structured and demanding. The guides below cover the preparation that consistently makes the difference between a confident, well-evidenced interview and one where strong candidates underperform because they have not thought clearly in advance about how to present their experience in the format the interviewer is looking for.

Guide What It Covers
Preparing for Your Interview How to research the business, structure your competency examples, prepare your financial questions and manage the format and logistics of a senior finance interview.
Interview Tips Practical interview technique for finance professionals — how to structure answers to competency and technical questions, how to handle unexpected questions, and how to close an interview well.
Questions to Ask at Interviews The questions that demonstrate commercial intelligence and genuine engagement with the role — and the questions to avoid. Includes specific questions for FC, FM and FBP-level interviews.

CV and Application

A strong finance CV at the senior level is concise, specific and achievement-oriented. The guides below cover the common mistakes that cause good candidates to be overlooked at the application stage, and what the most effective finance CVs at FC, FM and MA level actually look like in 2025.

Guide What It Covers
Writing a Finance CV Structure, length, format and content for a senior finance CV. What to include under each role, how to present qualification and achievement, and the format that works best for FC and FM level applications.
Writing a Covering Letter When a covering letter makes a material difference and when it does not. What the most effective covering letters for finance roles include — and what the most common mistakes are.
Following Up on a Job Application When and how to follow up on a finance job application. The timing that works, the format that does not create a negative impression, and what to do when you have not heard back within the expected timeframe.

Leaving a Role

Guide What It Covers
Writing a Resignation Letter The format and content for a professional resignation letter at Finance Manager, FC or FD level. What to say, what not to say, and how to manage the conversation with your employer after the letter has been submitted.

Salary Guides for Finance Candidates

Understanding your market value is the starting point for any successful move. The guides below give current UK salary benchmarks for every qualified finance role at £50,000 and above — by region, experience level and business context. Use them to understand what the market pays for your current role and what the salary step looks like for the role you are targeting.

Salary Guide London Range (typical)
Financial Controller Salary Guide (London) £65k–£110k
Finance Manager Salary Guide UK £55k–£85k
Finance Business Partner Salary Guide UK £60k–£95k
FP&A Manager Salary Guide UK £62k–£95k
Management Accountant Salary Guide UK £50k–£75k
In-House Tax Manager Salary Guide UK £60k–£100k
All Salary Guides → Group FC, Financial Accountant, Fractional FC, Fractional CFO rates

Who Accountancy Capital Works With

We work with qualified finance professionals at £50,000 and above. Our core candidate community is ACA, ACCA and CIMA-qualified finance professionals who are working — or who are close to working — at Financial Controller, Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner, FP&A Manager or equivalent level. We also place Management Accountants and Financial Accountants at senior level, in-house Tax Managers, Group Financial Controllers, and fractional finance professionals who operate across multiple businesses on a portfolio basis.

If you are below £50,000 or not yet qualified, Accountancy Capital is not the right agency for you at this stage. There are good generalist agencies that cover the full salary range well. Once you are qualified and approaching or at the £50,000 threshold, register with us and we will be in touch when relevant roles arise.

Verify your ACA membership through the ICAEW Find a Chartered Accountant directory, ACCA membership through the ACCA Find an Accountant tool and CIMA membership through the CIMA member directory — employers will check qualification status before making a senior finance offer and it is useful to have your member number and public profile up to date before you begin a search.

A Note from Our Founder — Adrian Lawrence FCA

The best finance roles at £50,000 and above are never advertised. They are filled through direct conversations between the hiring manager and a recruiter who knows which candidates are open to a move and whose background genuinely matches what the business needs. That is how Accountancy Capital works. We do not post every role publicly and wait to see who applies — we go directly to the candidates we know whose profile matches the brief, and we have the conversation before anyone else does.

Registering with us means you become part of that network. When a Financial Controller role at a PE-backed business in your sector comes in, or a Group FC opportunity arises at the right salary level, we will contact you directly — whether you are actively looking or simply open to the right conversation. The registration takes a few minutes. The conversations that follow can be career-defining.

Adrian Lawrence FCA
Founder, Accountancy Capital — Qualified finance recruitment specialists, £50,000 and above. Adrian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales — verify via ICAEW.

Candidate Resources

Find a Role

Live vacancies and candidate registration.

→ Jobs Board

→ Register as a Candidate

Interview & CV

Preparation guides for senior finance interviews and applications.

→ Interview Preparation

→ Writing a Finance CV

→ Interview Tips

Salary Guides

What the market pays for your role right now.

→ FM Salary Guide

→ FC Salary Guide

→ All Salary Guides

Role Guides

What each role involves, the career path and how roles compare.

→ The FC Role

→ FC vs CFO

→ Knowledge Centre

Register with Accountancy Capital

If you are a qualified finance professional at £50,000 and above — or approaching that level — register with us now. We will contact you directly when a relevant role arises, whether you are actively looking or simply open to the right opportunity.

Register Now →  or browse live vacancies