// finance hiring health check
Avoid a costly finance mis-hire. Stress-test the role before you advertise.
Get a written review of the role and the business case, with a hire, reshape or pause recommendation—and a matching job description, candidate advert and interview scorecard.
£99 + VAT launch price · £249 + VAT standard price
Launch price available for the first five paid Health Checks. Prices exclude VAT, which is added at 20%.
Ordering opens soon. No orders or payments are taken yet.
Allow around 15 minutes to complete your brief. No call required. See the questions
Next working day, by 5pm UK time, after payment and a complete brief. Not yet open. When sales open, the first 5 Health Checks will be offered at the launch price.
- 1Job title: Finance Director (removed)
- 2Job title: Financial Controller (added)
- 3Month-end pack by working day 5
- 4Owns the close (removed)
- 5Owns close timetable; fixes late accruals by month 6 (added)
- 6Strategic partner to the board (removed)
- 7Prepares management pack for MD review (added)
- 8Hire ASAP (removed)
- 9Case: MD rebuilds the late pack each month (added)
Recommendation: Reshape. Retitle as Financial Controller, or add the board-level work an FD would own. The need is real, but not as drafted. Change scope, level or ownership first.
What you get
“Stress-test my hire” starts the Finance Hiring Health Check: the same single service and price.
- 01 Business case and role review
- 02 Hire, reshape or pause recommendation with reasons
- 03 Revised job description
- 04 Candidate advert
- 05 Interview plan and weighted scorecard
- 06 Outstanding decisions requiring employer confirmation
- 07 Private web report and PDF
- 08 Editable job description, advert and scorecard
- 09 Up to two written questions or one 15-minute call within seven calendar days of delivery
Hire: The role and the case hold up. Advertise with the matched pack.
Reshape: The need is real, but not as drafted. Change scope, level or ownership first.
Pause: The case or key facts are missing. Don’t spend on an advert until they are resolved.
A finance hire that doesn’t fit the work costs a salary, fees, re-hire time and the same month-end problem. Part of that risk is visible in the brief before anyone applies. No check removes hiring risk; this one makes sure the role and the case hold up first.
Fictional sample report
See the report before you buy.
A full fictional Health Check: the decision on page one, the diagnosis, the evidence and unknowns, and the matched job description, advert, interview plan and scorecard.
Fictional example. Invented company, people and figures. It shows the method, not market evidence.
Decision summary
pause
Pause: pause until the open points are resolved
Pause: Budget approval is not confirmed and consideration of alternatives is not confirmed.
Provisional hiring pack—requires employer confirmation before use.
How the report is produced
- Reports are drafted with AI assistance from the facts in your brief and role material, plus our salary reference for salary ranges.
- Every draft goes through automated quality checks: conclusions drawn from missing facts, contradictions resolved without evidence, invented figures or benchmarks, salary range confused with budget approval, provisional requirements presented as settled, scorecard weights that do not total 100%, and incomplete sections.
- Every report is checked before release by a finance recruitment specialist with ten years' experience as owner-director of a boutique finance recruitment consultancy.
- Nothing is delivered automatically: a report is released only after that check and approval.
Your brief is used only to produce your report. It is never used for recruitment outreach, and the Health Check includes no candidate introductions.
Not ready for the full check?
The free checker gives general guidance from eight answers. The paid Health Check reviews your actual brief and role material and produces a matched hiring pack.
One finance vacancy. One fee.
£99 + VAT launch price · £249 + VAT standard price
Launch price available for the first five paid Health Checks. Prices exclude VAT, which is added at 20%. Next working day, by 5pm UK time.
Ordering opens soon. No orders or payments are taken yet.