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Permanent Finance Hiring

Build Your Core Finance Team Through a Specialist Finance Recruitment Firm

A structured search process for the long-term finance hires who become the backbone of your finance function.

Shortlist for a Finance Controller search: three candidates assessed against seven dimensions, first shortlist delivered in three working days.

Trusted by finance & HR teams

500+Finance hires placed
400K+Finance professionals mapped
3 daysTo first shortlist
92%Still in role at 12 months

Why Permanent

Permanent Hires Are the Foundation

Contract professionals bridge gaps and EOR gets teams on the ground quickly, but neither builds the institutional knowledge, stakeholder trust and continuity that a permanent hire develops over years.

Permanent finance recruitment is how a business builds the finance team it can actually depend on at scale. It is the difference between a function that holds together under pressure and one that has to be rebuilt every time someone leaves.

Getting this wrong is expensive in a way that's easy to underestimate. The cost isn't a bad quarter. It's a finance function that never quite stabilises, because its core keeps turning over.

When Permanent Hiring Is the Right Call

Building a core finance function for the first time

The role requires institutional knowledge built over years

Stakeholders need a consistent finance point of contact

The cost of re-hiring outweighs the cost of a thorough search

If your need is closer to covering a leave, executing a project, or testing a new market, see Contract Finance Hiring or Employer of Record Services instead.

How We Evaluate

The HireGenie Finance Evaluation Framework

Every candidate is evaluated against our 7-dimension Finance Evaluation Framework before reaching your shortlist.

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7dimensions
Technical CompetencyIndustry ExperienceCareer ProgressionBusiness UnderstandingLeadership CapabilityCommunication SkillsOrganizational Fit

Why Businesses Choose HireGenie for Permanent Hiring

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Long-term fit assessment

We evaluate candidates against where your business is heading, not just where it is today.

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Counter-offer anticipation

We manage the closing process to reduce the risk of losing a candidate at the final stage.

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Succession-aware search

For leadership roles, we factor in growth potential and promotability, not just immediate role fit.

How it works

Our Process

Step 01

Understand the long-term mandate

We clarify not just the immediate role but where the position and the business are headed.

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Step 02

Map the talent market

We identify talent pools, compensation benchmarks and availability for the specific seniority required.

Step 03

Source through targeted search

We draw on our networks and proprietary databases rather than relying on inbound applications.

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Step 04

Evaluate for long-term fit

We assess technical capability, leadership trajectory and organizational alignment.

Step 05

Present and close

Evaluated candidates with context on long-term fit, followed by offer support and counter-offer management through to start date.

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Roles and Industries

We support permanent hiring across the full finance function:

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Contract HiringHire from IndiaEmployer of Record (EOR)Payroll Services

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions clients ask most before starting a finance search. If yours isn’t here, we’re one call away.

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Permanent finance hiring is the recruitment of finance professionals for long-term, open-ended employment, intended to build the core, stable finance team a business relies on over time rather than fill a temporary or project-based need.

Specialist finance recruitment in India is typically charged as a percentage of the candidate's annual fixed compensation, payable once the candidate joins, with most specialist firms in the 10% to 16% range depending on seniority and search complexity. HireGenie prices by seniority and search complexity, and quotes upfront before a search begins.

If a placed candidate leaves within the guarantee period, HireGenie runs a replacement search at no additional fee. We also stay engaged through the first reporting cycle, when mismatches typically surface, so problems are identified early rather than at the point of resignation.

Permanent hiring through HireGenie places the candidate directly on your payroll as your long-term employee. EOR lets you employ talent in a market where you don't have a legal entity, with the EOR provider as the legal employer. See Employer of Record Services for more detail.

We stay closely engaged through the offer stage and prepare both client and candidate for the possibility of a counter-offer, rather than treating an accepted offer as the end of the process.

Most permanent finance searches close within 4-8 weeks, depending on seniority — Manager-level roles tend to close faster than Controller or leadership-level searches.

HireGenie provides a free replacement search if a placed candidate leaves within 90 days of joining and the role remains unchanged. The replacement is a fresh search at no additional fee. Departures caused by client-side restructuring, redundancy or a material change to the role are handled case by case. See Our Promise for the commitments behind this.

Permanent hiring builds long-term institutional knowledge and supports succession planning. Contract hiring solves a defined, time-bound need such as a project, a leave cover or a transformation initiative. See Contract Finance Hiring for more detail.

Yes. We regularly support startups making their first dedicated finance hire, where long-term fit and growth trajectory matter even more than at an established company.

Yes. We support permanent finance hiring across India and the Middle East.

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