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At Ashdown Group, we help organisations across London and the UK hire audit professionals. We strengthen governance, improve compliance, and maintain financial integrity by sourcing candidates with strong technical and analytical skills.
Audit Recruitment
Audit professionals are essential for assessing financial controls, identifying risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting transparency. With over 25 years’ experience in finance recruitment, we recognise the need for auditors who combine technical expertise, commercial awareness, and strong stakeholder management.
We recruit for permanent, interim, and contract audit roles, ensuring organisations secure professionals who fit both technically and culturally.
Audit roles we recruit
We recruit for a full range of audit positions, including:
- Internal Audit & Operations
- Financial & Compliance Audit
- External & Third-Party Audit
- Audit Management & Leadership
Contract and interim audit recruitment
We also provide experienced interim and contract audit professionals who can deliver immediate support during periods of increased regulatory scrutiny, transformation, or audit activity.
Our interim audit network supports organisations requiring expertise in areas such as:
- Internal audit programmes
- SOX compliance projects
- Risk and controls reviews
- Regulatory compliance initiatives
- Governance and assurance projects
- Operational audit reviews
- Maternity cover and staff absence
Our consultants respond quickly to urgent needs, introducing fully vetted professionals who integrate seamlessly and deliver immediate value.
Audit expertise
Our candidates typically have experience in:
- Internal and external audit
- Risk assessment and controls testing
- Regulatory and compliance audits
- SOX compliance
- Financial controls and governance
- Audit planning and delivery
- Process and operational reviews
We prioritise candidates with strong technical audit skills, commercial judgement, and effective communication with stakeholders in finance, operations, and senior leadership.
Why Choose Ashdown Group?
Our finance recruitment consultants understand the challenges facing audit and compliance teams and maintain strong networks in the audit recruitment market.
Clients choose Ashdown Group because of our:
- Over 25 years of finance recruitment experience
- Strong network of qualified audit professionals
- Detailed salary and market insight
- Consultative recruitment approach
- Fast turnaround times
- Transparent recruitment fees
We take time to understand your governance structure, regulatory environment, reporting requirements, and organisational culture to ensure we introduce candidates capable of delivering long-term value.
To support your hiring strategy, explore our Accountancy & Finance Salary Guide and recruitment insights for salary benchmarks, hiring trends, and in-demand audit skills.
Accounting Recruitment Support
With a dedicated finance recruitment team working on your behalf, we work quickly to identify and introduce high-quality audit professionals suited to your organisation. Our consultants focus on delivering technically capable candidates who can make an immediate impact.
Our recruitment services are built on repeat business and referrals, reflecting the trust clients place in us. If a permanent placement does not complete probation, we continue the search at no extra cost or provide a rebate according to our guarantee terms.
Our fees are transparent and competitive, with permanent recruitment fees starting at 15% for exclusive assignments. We also offer flexible interim and contract recruitment solutions tailored to your needs.
With over 25 years’ experience, we have built one of the UK’s strongest networks of finance and audit professionals, allowing us to identify both active and passive candidates across all audit areas.
Close Partnership
Working in partnership with you throughout the process, wherever possible we visit businesses and accountancy practices in order to properly understand your company, environment and values to promote to potential candidates. Our finance and accounting recruitment team will support you with job market insights, knowledge and expertise to help you secure the best people.
Most Competitive Terms
Fairness, transparency and openness are at the heart of all of our dealings with you. That’s why an extensive range of businesses across the UK choose us when recruiting. You will be charged a market leading 15% recruitment fee when we successfully place your role, if given your vacancy for 10 days exclusively.
Exceeding Expectations
We value you as a customer and would like to keep you a customer for life. Our finance recruitment consultants aim to exceed your expectations to achieve this goal, and our 100% rebate guarantee is further reassurance that we will go out of our way to ensure the best results for your business, experienced consultants sourcing the best talent for your finance team. Find out why, when accounting jobs and financial services vacancies arise, employers return to us for their accountancy and contractor recruitment.
The Perfect Candidate
The size and depth of our network enables us to introduce you to well matched accountancy and finance professionals from within your industry, meeting your expectation of the right skills, salary and experience for your temporary and permanent roles. We have access to the broadest range of ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA and part-qualified accounting professionals, Finance Directors, Chief Financial Officers and Interim Financial executives.
Trusted by
"Our business has grown considerably in the last 5 years. I had previously tried other recruitment companies, but none have been able to provide me with the quality / quantity of staff for our business needs. I would be happy to recommend Ashdown Group”
Financial Director at Impact Handling
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