Financial Accounting Recruitment

At Ashdown Group, we help organisations across London and the UK hire skilled financial accounting professionals. Our candidates deliver accurate reporting, ensure compliance, and enhance financial control. 

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Financial Accountant Recruitment

Hiring the right financial accounting professionals is essential for maintaining financial control, ensuring compliance, and supporting smooth business operations.

With over 25 years of finance recruitment experience, we recognise the need for technical expertise, commercial awareness, and strong systems skills in today’s finance teams.

We recruit for permanent, interim, and contract financial accounting roles, ensuring candidates are a strong technical and cultural fit for your organisation.

Financial accounting roles we recruit

We recruit across the full spectrum of financial accounting positions, including:

  • Financial Accountants
  • Financial Controllers
  • Finance Managers
  • IFRS Accountants
  • Regulatory Reporting Accountants
  • Project Accountants

Contract and interim recruitment

We provide experienced interim and contract financial accounting professionals to support your organisation during change, growth, audit preparation, or systems transformation.
Our interim finance network supports organisations requiring expertise in:

  • Year-end and month-end reporting
  • ERP implementation projects
  • Audit support
  • Financial clean-up projects
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Regulatory reporting
  • Process improvement initiatives
  • Maternity cover and staff absence

Financial accounting expertise

Our candidates typically have experience in:

  • Reporting
  • compliance
  • Group consolidations
  • Audit preparation
  • Financial controls and governance
  • Process improvement and automation

Why Choose Ashdown?

Our finance recruitment consultants understand the challenges facing today’s accounting teams and maintain strong networks within the financial accounting market.
Clients choose Ashdown Group because of our:

  • Accountancy recruitment agency experience since 1999
  • Strong network of qualified accounting professionals
  • Detailed salary and market insight
  • Consultative recruitment approach
  • Fast turnaround times
  • Transparent recruitment fees

We take time to understand your technical requirements, finance structure, systems, and organisational culture to ensure we introduce candidates who deliver long-term value.
Our permanent recruitment fees start at 15% for exclusive assignments. We also offer flexible interim and contract solutions tailored to your business needs.

Speak to us

If you are looking to hire financial accounting professionals or seeking your next opportunity, contact Ashdown Group today.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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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Fees and Rebates

  • 1

    Permanent

    We charge a 15% fee for your first vacancy and future Finance vacancies provided we are given a 10 day head start over any other agencies.

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  • 2

    Guarantee

    It is rarely the case that we need to refund our placements but the security is there should you need it. If someone we place leaves your company within their first 13 weeks, will deliver the entire recruitment process again, without compromise in service level. If unsuccessful in finding a replacement, we will refund your fee in full.

  • 3

    FTC / Interim

    Covering maternity, long term sickness, a staff shortfall or secondments, our fees are aligned to our permanent fee structure on a prorated basis.

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  • 4

    Contract

    Working to your budget, we will quickly find you skilled accountancy professionals to deliver your project.

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