Finance
A Chartered Accountant reads the brief, not a keyword matcher.
About HireGenie
How We Think About Finance Hiring.
We built HireGenie because finance hiring deserved specialist judgment, structured evaluation and a deeper understanding of how finance teams actually operate.
Trusted by finance & HR teams
Recruitment
Search built around what the role actually demands.
The why
Why we exist
No serious business would ask a generalist to conduct its audit, structure a transaction, or lead a finance transformation. Those are specialist tasks, and everyone treats them that way.
Yet finance hiring, the decision that determines who does all of that, is routinely handed to generalists. The same recruiter placing a sales lead on Monday is assessing a Finance Controller on Tuesday, working from a job description and a keyword match.
We started HireGenie because the gap is difficult to ignore. Evaluating a finance professional properly requires understanding what the role actually demands, how the function is evolving, and where a candidate's experience genuinely fits.
Introduction
HireGenie, in a minute
What we do, who we do it for, and why finance hiring needs a process of its own.
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We didn't build HireGenie to become another recruitment firm. We built it because we believed finance hiring deserved specialist judgment, structured evaluation and a deeper understanding of how finance teams actually operate.
Ayush Mehta, Founder, HireGenie
- Qualification
- Chartered Accountant
- Background
- KPMG · boutique tax & audit
- Founded
- 2022
The what
What we believe about finance hiring
Finance hiring is not the same as hiring in general, and treating it that way is where most searches go wrong.
A resume tells you where someone has been. It does not tell you whether they can do this role, in this business, at this stage. A Finance Controller who was excellent in a stable multinational may struggle to build controls from scratch in a startup. A strong FP&A analyst in a mature business may be lost without historical data to work from. The resume looks right in both cases. The hire still fails.
We believe the right hire is a question of context, not credentials. We believe long-term fit matters more than speed, because a fast hire that leaves in a year costs more than a slower one that stays. And we believe recruitment works only when it is built on trust, on both sides, because the best finance professionals are rarely in the market, and they do not respond to firms they don't respect.
Client outcomes
What that looks like in practice
The framework
How we evaluate finance talent
We assess every candidate against seven dimensions. The framework exists because hiring decisions fail on context far more often than on competence, and most of what matters sits below the surface of a resume. A resume can confirm the first two rows. The other five have to be evaluated by someone who understands finance well enough to know what they are looking at. That is the part generalist recruiting skips, and it is usually the part that decides whether a hire works.
01
Technical Competency
Genuine functional depth, not keyword familiarity
02
Industry Experience
Whether the candidate has operated in your kind of business
03
Career Progression
The trajectory behind the titles, not just the titles
04
Business Understanding
Commercial judgment beyond technical accuracy
05
Leadership Capability
How they manage teams and stakeholders under pressure
06
Communication Skills
Whether they can influence people who aren't in finance
07
Organizational Fit
Whether they suit this business, at this stage
Who we work with
Finance does not mean the same thing in every business, so we don't pretend one kind of finance hire fits all of them.
We work across all of these, and across global businesses hiring into India and the Middle East, because we understand how differently finance teams evolve in each.
At a Glance
What we commit to
Recruitment works best when professionalism and communication exist on both sides. We hold up our end, and the firms and professionals we work with tend to do the same.
The how
How we see it
We don't think finance hiring should be treated like any other hiring.
We don't think a resume tells the whole story.
We think great finance teams are built deliberately, through expertise, judgment and trust, and we built HireGenie to do exactly that.
More about how we work