Fractional Finance Business Partner: The Emerging Model
Fractional finance leadership is well established at the top of the function — part-week Finance Directors and Financial Controllers are now an ordinary way for mid-market businesses to buy senior capability. What is newer, and less well understood, is the same model applied one level …
How Many Finance Business Partners Do You Need?
Businesses building a business partnering capability almost always ask the wrong question first. They ask what a finance business partner does, then hire one, and only later discover that one person cannot meaningfully partner six commercial areas. The better question is the sizing one: how …
Finance Salaries vs Inflation: A 5-Year UK Tracker
Between 2021 and 2026 the UK went through the sharpest inflationary episode in four decades and came out the other side with a pay landscape that looks quite different from the one it entered. For finance professionals the question is simple and rarely answered honestly: …
Charity & Not-for-Profit Finance: SORP Skills & Hiring
Charity and not-for-profit finance looks, from the outside, like ordinary finance with tighter budgets. From the inside it is a distinct discipline with its own rulebook, its own reporting framework, and its own scarce skill set — and hiring for it as though it were …
The Hybrid Model: Fractional FC + In-House MA
There is a finance-team structure that growing businesses reach almost by accident and rarely by design, and it is often the most cost-effective arrangement available to them: a fractional Financial Controller providing senior oversight one or two days a week, paired with a full-time in-house …
When a Head of Finance Is the Right First Senior Hire
When a growing business decides it needs senior finance leadership, it faces a title problem before it faces a hiring problem. Financial Controller, Head of Finance, Finance Director — the labels overlap, candidates interpret them differently, and choosing the wrong one either overpays for a …
Head of FP&A: Role, Salary and When to Create the Position
Somewhere between £20m and £100m of revenue, most businesses discover that forecasting has quietly become a full-time leadership job being done part-time by three different people. The budget lives with the Financial Controller, the board’s scenario questions land on the FD at midnight, and a …
The True Cost of a Financial Controller Mis-Hire
The financial cost of a Financial Controller mis-hire is significantly higher than most businesses calculate at the time of making the decision. The typical analysis — if one is done at all — focuses on the agency fee and the salary cost of the failed …
2026 FC and FD Salary Market Outlook | Accountancy Capital
The UK finance and accountancy job market in 2026 is a market in transition. The sharp demand increase of 2021–2022 — driven by post-pandemic hiring and the private equity investment boom — has normalised. The market of late 2023 and early 2024 — characterised by …
We Placed a DFM FC Last Month: What Made the Difference
In March 2026 we placed a Financial Controller at a discretionary fund manager running approximately £600 million of assets under management. The search ran for six weeks. We shortlisted three candidates. The one who got the role was not the candidate with the most impressive …
