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- Are you building a finance team for where your business is going or where it was?
- Would your best future hire choose you over your competitors based purely on how you currently recruit??
- If your next finance hire underperforms, do you know exactly which part of your hiring process failed?
Make the way you hire a competitive advantage.
Our seven step hiring methodology helps you stand out in a competitive market. It gives you a clear and repeatable way to hire the right finance talent with confidence, not guesswork.
Designed to work now and evolve with your business, it turns hiring into a strategic advantage so you attract better people, make better decisions, and build teams that scale with your growth.
Some of the problems we solve.
Build predictable
hiring outcomes.
We design and manage your recruitment process to deliver consistent results, not occasional wins. By removing uncertainty and variability from each stage, we help you make better hiring decisions repeatedly, not just once.
Smarter sourcing, AI powered targeting, and structured assessments ensure every candidate is evaluated against clear success criteria, not subjective opinion. This creates consistency in who you hire and why they succeed.
Structured onboarding and ongoing engagement then turn good hiring decisions into long-term performance, not short-term placements.
We also manage candidate engagement and counteroffer risk throughout the process, reducing late-stage dropouts and unexpected failures. Every stage is built to give you control, visibility, and confidence in the outcomes you achieve from hiring.
Accelerate hiring without compromising decisions.
By applying our seven step methodology and the Gravitate Baseline, alongside proactive workforce planning, market mapping, and data driven sourcing, we help you move faster without losing control of decision quality.
We remove delays caused by unclear requirements, inconsistent screening, and poor shortlisting. In their place, we implement focused assessments, competency based interviews, and technical evaluations so only the right candidates reach decision stage.
Our support goes beyond selection. Structured onboarding guidance accelerates new hire impact, while ongoing check ins and retention strategies ensure speed does not come at the expense of long term fit or performance.
This way, you hire faster, with greater confidence, and with far less risk.
Reduce hiring waste.
Our process reduces recruitment costs by removing inefficiencies and preventing expensive hiring mistakes before they happen. Through proactive talent mapping and targeted sourcing, we reduce your reliance on urgent and costly last minute hiring, while focused assessments ensure time is spent only on candidates who are genuinely capable of delivering in the role. Faster hiring cycles lower vacancy costs and protect productivity across your finance function.
We also strengthen retention through structured onboarding and ongoing engagement, helping you avoid the high cost of re-hiring and retraining replacements. By adopting our methodology, you move to a more controlled and strategic approach to recruitment, optimising your spend and ensuring every hire delivers measurable value to the business.
Sector specialists.
We recruit exclusively within Finance and Accountancy, Finance Transformation, and Risk and Compliance.
It is all we do. By focusing solely on these markets, we stay fully immersed in what is happening across the industry, offering consultative advice built on deep experience and real time market insight.
We have successfully placed roles across the full finance spectrum. From Finance Analysts and Financial Controllers to Internal Auditors and Treasury Managers and many roles in between. We understand the skills, structure, and mindset needed at every level.
Our 7-step methodology.
Pre hire discovery / strategy briefing
What does your current hiring process look like and what steps can we take to improve it?
Before we begin any search, we take time to fully understand your technical requirements, your culture, and the expectations of your ideal candidate. This is the foundation for every successful hire.
From there, we help you design a process that works. One that avoids common pitfalls, engages the right talent, and reflects your brand at every stage.
Pre hire preparation / develop your EVP
Before we begin any search, we help you get everything in place to attract the right talent.
We work with you to define and strengthen your employee value proposition, and create a one page summary that brings your opportunity to life. We also review and refine the job specification and optimise your advert to ensure it performs well in the market.
With the right foundations in place, we are ready to begin a search that delivers.
Pre sourcing - research & market mapping
We combine the strength of our networks with AI and digital tools to identify a full pool of active and passive candidates who match your brief.
At the research stage, we leave no stone unturned. Our goal is to uncover every relevant candidate from a wide range of sources, ensuring you have access to the best available talent, not just the most visible.
Sourcing - outreach / approach
Once we identify stand out candidates through our research, we begin direct outreach to encourage meaningful engagement with your opportunity.
Our approach is tailored and consultative, designed to spark interest and open up conversations with people who may not be actively looking but are the right fit for your business.
Shortlist presentation
We present you with a shortlist of candidates who closely match the criteria we have agreed together.
Our aim is to provide three or four standout individuals, though quality always comes before quantity. We will only introduce candidates we believe you will genuinely want to meet. People who not only meet the brief but also have the potential to make a real impact in your business. At this stage, quality is our only metric.
Offer management
We know the offer stage is where great hiring decisions can either come together seamlessly or fall apart. That’s why we handle it with care. From advising on competitive packages to managing expectations and navigating negotiations, we make sure both sides feel informed and confident every step of the way. Our role is to keep the process transparent, positive, and human.
Onboarding
Our support doesn’t stop once the offer is signed. We stay close through the onboarding period to make sure everything gets off to the best possible start. That means keeping in touch with both client and candidate, checking progress, and helping to smooth out any early challenges. It’s about setting the tone for long-term success — making sure your new hire feels confident, supported, and ready to make an impact from day one.
The Gravitate Baseline.
We rigorously apply five assessment criteria to every candidate we introduce.
This process, which we call the Gravitate Baseline, ensures consistency and quality in every hire. By using this approach, we help improve your time to hire, quality of hire, and overall cost of hire, making your recruitment more efficient and effective.
Trust is earned.
We have been doing this a long time.
We are here to listen, offer clear advice, and deliver results based on shared objectives.
We work in partnership with you, acting as an extension of your business. We are always honest about where we add the most value and humble enough to say when we are not the right fit.
Easing your pain points.
Working with us is easy.
Technology has transformed recruitment. AI and automation continue to make communication faster and more efficient. But we believe they should enhance human connection, not replace it.
We build partnerships on mutual honesty and transparency. We are in this for the long term, and lasting relationships are at the heart of everything we do.
Deep networks.
Lasting Impact.
We are an experienced team, and our networks have been built and carefully shaped over time.
In a challenging market, how you approach potential candidates while protecting your brand identity is critical. Because we understand our networks deeply, we can connect candidates with the opportunities they truly want and match clients with the people they genuinely need.
We act as your eyes and ears in the markets we serve. Use us for guidance on hiring strategy, salary and benefits benchmarking, and up to date market insight. Let us use our experience to help you make smarter decisions.