Interim Finance in Yorkshire & the East Midlands - Market Report
Dale's latest Market Report focuses on the growth of the Interim Finance sector
Interim Finance in Yorkshire & the East Midlands - Market Report
Dale's latest Market Report focuses on the growth of the Interim Finance sector
The interim market is growing at a faster rate than permanent across the UK, in Yorkshire and in Pratap Partnership!
The Report on Jobs produced by KPMG and the REC is the formative guide for the health of the job market in the UK. The very latest data produced at the end of September shows:
- A sharp rise in the temporary market in Q3 – nearing the highest level that they have been at in a year.
- Growth in the North and in the accounting & finance market
- Slight increase in candidate availability
Taking headline figures and applying them to your own situation can be a dangerous path – wage inflation for example: the UK is operating at around 7% at the moment but if employers applied that across their whole team, they would be overpaying some people and underpaying others. The devil is in the detail and the detail needs to be refined to the sharpest focus possible. For all employers with finance departments in the Yorkshire and East Midlands regions, here are the latest details on our interim specialism over the past quarter:
- The number of interim finance candidates engaged between June and October in 2023 has grown by 87% from the same period in 2022
- Using advert responses as a metric for the availability of candidates, there is a 7% increase in the number of interim finance candidates
My portfolio of work covers everything at Manager and Senior Manager level. The most sought after skills are:
- Project Management – PMO, Process Improvement and Data Management
- Management Accounting
The most common reasons for recruiting are:
- Change and planning for more change
- Maternity leaves (which is great to see!!!)
We are all a little more used to relying on a short-term outlook (“Permacrisis” was the Collins dictionary word of the year in 2022 after all!), but our data shows how many employers across corporates, SMEs and not-for-profit sectors are responding. There are some effective solutions within the interim finance recruitment world. Please contact me at dale@pratappartnership.com to discuss any of this in more detail.
