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Your next senior finance hire is a business investment. Are you treating it like one?
A senior finance hire shapes decisions, team performance and the delivery of business growth. Treating the appointment as an investment means defining the required return before deciding who to recruit.
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Seymour John places 10 temp-to-perm Customer Service Advisors in two weeks
Temporary-to-permanent (temp-to-perm) recruitment fills a role helps a business respond to an immediate staffing need while offering the flexibility to build a permanent team.
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Fast turnaround specialist recruitment support
Failure to fill business-critical roles places added pressure on internal teams. This was the case for our client who, after three unsuccessful attempts by a previously engaged agency, turned to Seymour John for help.
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Securing scarce specialist marketing talent in just five weeks
Specialist capability and a work from office mandate were restricting responses to our client’s urgent role requirement. So, we reshaped the search and tapped into a pool of passive talent to fill the role in just five weeks.
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To develop, retain or recruit? Closing the finance capability gap
Scarce finance capability cannot always be recruited quickly or affordably. Before entering the external market, businesses need a clearer view of the talent that already exists within the function.
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More applicants, harder decisions: Finance recruitment in 2026
Vacancy levels are falling and applications are increasing, but recruiting the right finance capability isn’t any easier. The challenge has shifted from attracting applicants to accurately identifying and securing the people capable of delivering what the business needs next.
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Closing the capability gap: How to recruit for what's coming next
If finance is expected to support growth, lead transformation and improve decision-making, recruitment must assess more than what candidates have done before. It must reveal how they think, learn, influence and lead.
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The CFO can’t do it alone: Building high-performance teams (Part 2)
High-performing finance teams are built through more than technical capability. They are built on human interaction, rooted in trust, constructive challenge, and through leaders who know how to get the best from their people.
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The CFO can’t do it alone: Building high-performance teams (Part 1)
When every major financial decision, forecast, control issue, transformation project and investor question routes through the CFO, the problem is not workload; it is operational risk.
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