Finance

Berwick Partners' Finance Practice is a UK wide team of specialist recruiters operating from three geographical bases. We are dedicated to placing qualified accountants across a diverse range of industries. We offer a range of sourcing strategies including search and targeted specialist advertising solutions. The team is comfortable handling appointments for both large and small organisations and appreciates the different nuances required when recruiting for SME, AIM or FTSE listed companies.

Our Expertise

Each member of the team has many years experience in the finance field and offers genuine functional and regional knowledge. The practice has the experience and capability to recruit across the whole spectrum of qualified finance positions. Recent appointments include head office and divisional finance director, financial controller roles, as well as corporate finance, consolidations, financial planning and analysis, operational finance, cost accounting, finance systems, project, treasury, tax and internal audit.

Our Approach

We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with clients and believe in maintaining a regular discourse in order to relay market conditions and information. This approach ensures a smooth process and prevents surprises. We are happy to offer advice on role content, team structure, succession planning and target candidate backgrounds. We are used to operating in a confidential manner and recommend using non-disclosure agreements where necessary. We appreciate that rigour is key and work to a strong compliance process to include reference-taking and qualification checks. With deep functional knowledge we offer advice, challenge, structure and quality in providing clients with candidates who fit the bill both technically and culturally.

The Market

Demand for quality qualified accountants has not diminished over the last three years as there has been a steady requirement for talent, especially individuals with a commercial bent. Finance professionals who can turn their hand to more commercial, operational or systems focused tasks are a valuable commodity.

In any progressive company, the link between finance and the business is now viewed as a partnership whereby finance is expected to provide real value-add rather than purely numbers. According to a leading finance publication, 70% of accountants will be looking to move job in 2011. However they will only make selective applications to recruiters that have a functional track record and reputation. This is where Berwick Partners expertise comes in. Our ability to understand a company’s drivers and knowledge of sourcing finance stars of the future means that our reach is unrivalled.

We appreciate the challenges of recruiting into different spaces and know how to sell the opportunity whilst providing honest career advice to candidates.

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Lucy Brennan

Why Choose us?

Recruitment at all levels is an increasingly difficult task; selecting the correct partner is critical. Berwick Partners has a long heritage and a reputation for helping our clients to get these decisions right. The reasons are simple:

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