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Discover proven strategies to retain women in senior workplace roles. Learn why outdated structures push women out, how allyship and flexibility boost retention, and why diversity drives better business outcomes. Practical, evidence-based insights for UK organisations aiming to improve gender balance and leadership diversity in 2026.

Hiring a part-qualified accountant can be one of the smartest long-term investments your finance team makes. But holding onto them in the long run can be where many businesses fall short.

We’ve all heard the terms ‘flexible working’ and ‘working flexibly’. Same thing, right? They sound like it, but they’re quite different, both from a legal standpoint and a cultural one. Many organisations often blur the lines around it, which creates confusion and can lead to mixed expectations for both employee and employer.

For years, accounting and finance have been held up as a reliable and balanced career path for anyone to take. But quietly, something has shifted, and across the UK, fewer women are entering the profession, and many are leaving mid-career for an alternative.

Good onboarding has always mattered in recruitment, but it’s become critical that we pay more attention to it. With major changes in UK employment law now coming into play, how you welcome and support new hires is no longer just a people strategy that reflects on your culture, it’s a compliance necessity.

We’re heading rapidly towards the Christmas period, and the time of year where work starts to pile up as people take leave and time away from work. The big rush to get everything wrapped up by the end of the year, keep of top of current workloads and make plans for the new year can really make the end of the year feel overwhelming.

Discover the most common mistakes in accountancy and finance recruitment and learn how to improve hiring outcomes with faster, structured, data-led processes.

IR35 changes are reshaping contractor accountant hiring in Yorkshire. Sewell Wallis helps employers recruit compliant interim finance talent quickly and confidently.