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 …
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 …
Five Things Fintech FCs Know About PSR Safeguarding
There is a specific moment in most fintech FC interviews when a commercial FC candidate — experienced, articulate, technically strong — starts to lose the brief. It is not usually the question about VC board packs. It is not the IFRS 15 SaaS revenue recognition …
How to Brief a Senior Finance Search That Completes First Time
The single most consistent predictor of whether a senior finance search completes successfully is not the strength of the candidate market, the seniority of the role or the budget available. It is the quality of the brief. A well-constructed brief — specific about scope, accurate …
ACA vs ACCA vs CIMA: Which Qualification for In-House Finance?
The question of whether to pursue the ACA, the ACCA or the CIMA qualification is one that most finance students face at the beginning of their training, with limited information about which qualification will matter most to employers in the in-house finance roles they are …
What to Pay Your Financial Controller in 2026: An Employer Guide
The most common Financial Controller search failure in the UK mid-market is not a failure to find the right candidate. It is a failure to price the role correctly before going to market. The business that sets the FC salary at the right market rate …
