Overview

Join a specialist Commerce & Industry recruitment team focused on placing high calibre accounting and finance professionals into permanent and interim roles across commercial, corporate and industry finance teams. You will work with clients ranging from SMEs to large corporates and scale-ups, delivering consultative hiring solutions and market insight. This role suits an experienced recruitment consultant who is commercially focused, client centric and motivated to grow a book of business within a respected brand.

Responsibilities

• Manage full lifecycle recruitment for accounting and finance roles within commerce and industry: role intake and briefing, targeted sourcing, candidate assessment, interview preparation, offer negotiation and onboarding.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers, finance directors, HR partners and senior stakeholders to act as a trusted recruitment adviser.

• Generate new business through proactive market engagement, outbound prospecting, client meetings and relationship development to expand and retain your client portfolio.

• Deliver an excellent candidate experience while managing multiple vacancies to agreed SLAs and commercial targets.

• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies including market mapping, targeted headhunting, database searches, social recruiting and network referrals tailored to commerce and industry finance talent pools.

• Provide market insight, competitor intelligence and salary benchmarking to clients; advise on hiring strategy, role design and talent availability across finance functions such as management accounting, financial reporting, FP&A, commercial finance and financial control.

• Achieve and exceed individual billings and KPI targets, contributing to team revenue and broader business objectives.

• Coach, mentor and develop junior consultants, share best practice and support a collaborative, high performance team culture.

Skills

What we’re looking for:

• Proven recruitment experience placing accounting and finance professionals into permanent and interim roles within commerce, industry or corporate finance teams.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence hiring decisions at senior levels and build long term client partnerships.

• Commercially motivated with a consistent track record of meeting or exceeding billing targets and developing new business.

• Confident business developer comfortable with proactive outreach, consultative selling and presenting market insight specific to industry finance markets.

• Organised, resilient and able to prioritise effectively in a fast‑paced environment while managing multiple assignments.

• Experience using ATS/CRM systems, digital sourcing tools and competent with MS Office or equivalent productivity software.

What you’ll get:

• Competitive salary with an uncapped commission structure and attractive bonus opportunities.

• Clear career progression and professional development within Marks Sattin and GI Group Holdings.

• Structured training, specialist sector support and mentoring from senior consultants to develop technical and commercial skills.

• Hybrid working, generous holiday allowance and a comprehensive benefits package.

• Regular team incentives, social events and a supportive, collaborative culture focused on high performance and wellbeing.

If you are a motivated recruitment professional with experience in commerce and industry accounting and finance hiring, and a drive to deliver results and build lasting client relationships, we’d love to hear from you.