Finance Recruitment Specialists in the UK & Ireland

Finance recruitment in the UK and Ireland continues to move quickly. Businesses need specific skills, flexible hiring options and recruitment agencies that understand how the finance industry works. Our specialised finance recruiters use a cumulation of 50 years of expertise, real sector experience and an honest approach to hiring. 

Every hiring need is different, so we focus on simple support that solves real challenges. This could mean hiring specialist technical talent, experienced managers, interim professionals or short‑notice cover.

We support a wide range of finance roles across the UK & Ireland, including:  

• AP, AR, Credit Control & Payroll  
• Transactional & Part Qualified  
• FP&A & Management Accounting  
• Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting  
• Systems Accountants    
• Financial Controllership  
• Internal Audit & Risk  
• Tax & Treasury    
• M&A & Corporate Development  
• Investor Relations  
• Head Of Finance & Finance Director
• CFO  

Our Finance specialist consultants operate nationwide, combining local market expertise with national reach.

Whether you need support in London, Manchester, Birmingham or elsewhere in the UK, we are the right partner to help you secure top talent in Finance. Explore our offices across the UK here.

How our accounting and finance recruitment services work

Our finance recruitment team supports every stage of the hiring process, which includes early conversations to help scope out our clients potential needs, helping to define key needs priorities within the team, and advising on market trends. We work alongside our clients to help them with creating job descriptions and candidate briefing packs, running comprehensive candidate searches, screening and vetting longlists, organising interviews and finally, managing the offers and contracts. We are proud to be a trusted partner every step of the way.

• Industry insight: Our consultants build upon knowledge and insight from recruiting accounting professionals for the past 50 years which helps us to understand your challenges along with historic, current and future talent sourcing solutions. This extensive legacy knowledge helps us assess candidates with the clarity and confidence of a trusted brand.
   
• Strong talent access: We connect you with skilled finance professionals across the UK and Ireland. Our extensive reach across our legacy database, our deep finance networks, committed partnerships to professional membership bodies and our targeted marketing and social media presence means that we are able to reach candidates who are both actively and passively looking. As the longest established Finance recruiter in the UK, we are confident we have the reach you need to unlock your team’s potential.
   
• A straightforward approach: Our process is shaped around your priorities. We keep things clear and move at a pace that supports your business. We take a straightforward approach, stay focused on your goals and make sure every stage of the recruitment process feels simple and controlled.
   
• Useful market knowledge: You gain access to practical insights and up-to-date hiring trends across the finance sector to help you stay competitive. This includes tailored information around salaries, compensation packages, hybrid working models, and all other onboarding factors in order for you to stay competitive when hiring. 
   
• Responsible practices: We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and follow responsible hiring standards throughout every stage of the recruitment journey. We promote fair and consistent processes, ensure all candidates are assessed on their skills and experience, and work closely with clients to remove barriers so every hire is made with integrity and transparency.
   

Why companies choose Michael Page for Accounting and Finance recruitment

We are a trusted, specialist recruitment partner for finance roles across the UK & Ireland. Our team supports hiring needs nationwide and works with a range of organisations, for all their finance hiring needs, from leadership to core finance and transactional roles. We have the capability and depth to provide top talent at every level of your finance department.

Our network gives you the benefit of broad reach and strong local insight, so you get consistent and informed support wherever you are.  

Along with this expansive candidate reach, we have developed proven recruitment processes that adapt to the demands of your hiring needs, and level of recruitment while maintaining the capture of the best talent that the market offers.