Senior/ Principal Recruitment Consultant - #2141441

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited


Date: 1 hour ago
City: Bristol
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 / year
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited

Hays Recruitment

Senior Finance Contract Recruiter (Senior Level Apps £600+ per day)

Bristol (Covering Bristol, Bath, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall)

£ + uncapped commission

We are looking for an experienced Recruiter to join our established and high-performing finance team, focusing on senior-level interim and transformation appointments across Bristol, Bath and the wider SDC region.

This is a principal-level opportunity suited to a recruiter with gravitas, a strong network, and a proven track record of building and sustaining a high-value daybook.

The Opportunity:

You will specialise in senior finance contract roles, including:

  • Finance Director

  • Financial Controller

  • CFO

  • Finance Transformation & Change

  • Group Reporting

  • Systems & Project Accountants

This is a key role to increase senior appointments, strengthen daybook resilience, and place high-impact interim solutions that influence wider teams and businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver high-quality interim placements (£600+ a day) across your defined geography

  • Develop and maintain a network of 400+ senior finance professionals within your patch, fully mapped and coded

  • Identify and manage move motivations, availability, rate expectations and preferences

  • Partner closely on senior appointments strategy and market approach

  • Ensure strong internal and external PR aligned to collaboration and inclusive culture

  • Maintain high data quality, LinkedIn Recruiter activity and market-to-market discipline

What We're Looking For:

  • Proven experience recruiting senior finance contractors (FD, FC, CFO, Transformation)

  • Principal-level capability: confidence, credibility and commercial impact

  • Demonstrated success building and sustaining a contract daybook

  • Strong regional market knowledge across Bristol, Bath and surrounding areas

  • A collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across teams

  • High standards around data integrity, process and candidate experience

What you'll get in return:

  • A culture built on rewarding success, collaboration and high performance

  • Industry-leading technology and a renowned training programme to support rapid career progression

  • Flexible hybrid working patterns

  • Your birthday off!

  • Opportunity to take your career globally

  • Incentives and rewards recognising performance locally, regionally and nationally

  • A broad range of wellbeing initiatives and benefits

  • Referral bonus scheme

  • Internal support networks and communities

  • Paid volunteering days

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.

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