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About Finance Hiring Lab
Helping UK employers cut the risk of a costly finance mis-hire by checking the role and the business case before they advertise — and producing the hiring pack to match.
Why it exists
Many finance vacancies run into trouble before anyone applies. The title and the work sit at different levels on the UK ladder (Management Accountant, Financial Accountant, Finance Manager, Financial Controller), the essentials list keeps growing, the package is half-stated, attendance ignores close week and interviews start without a shared scorecard. Each of these is fixable, and most are visible in the brief itself.
Built on over ten years of finance recruitment experience — checking the role and the business case behind it before the advert goes live.
Finance Hiring Lab turns that method into a written report for one vacancy: Paste your draft brief. You get a business case check, a hire, reshape or pause recommendation with the reasoning, and the job description, candidate advert and interview scorecard to match.
What we make
Hiring Friction Checker
A free, transparent eight-question check of a vacancy brief, with practical advice for the highest-friction areas.
Finance Hiring Health Check
Specialist report for one UK finance vacancy: level calibrated, essentials sorted, advert and weighted scorecard tied to your brief.
Insights
Short, practical guides on writing finance briefs, adverts and interview processes.
What the method is built on
Built on over ten years of finance recruitment experience — checking the role and the business case behind it before the advert goes live.
That shows up as role-level calibration, package clarity for the band you need, a must-have versus nice-to-have split that filters the wrong applicants, a rewritten advert tied to your facts, and a scorecard interviewers can use — not a polished paraphrase of the job description.
How reports are produced
- 1Your brief is assessed. Checked for completeness. Gaps are flagged, never guessed.
- 2A structured draft is prepared. Drafted with AI assistance from the facts you supply only.
- 3Automated quality checks. Conclusions from missing facts, unresolved contradictions, invented figures, scorecard weights and generic filler.
- 4Specialist check before release. Every report is checked before release by a finance recruitment specialist with ten years' experience as owner-director of a boutique finance recruitment consultancy.
- 5Private delivery. Web view, PDF and editable pack on your order page. Next working day, by 5pm UK time, after payment and a complete brief.
Every report works from the facts you supply. Judgement is labelled as judgement, market figures are only used with a stated source, date and scope, and anything missing is flagged for you to confirm rather than invented.
What we do not do
- We do not introduce candidates, run searches or offer placement guarantees.
- Your brief is used only to produce your report. It is never used for recruitment outreach, and the Health Check includes no candidate introductions.
- We do not publish market data we cannot source, or testimonials we have not been given.
- Reports are practical hiring guidance, not legal or HR advice.
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