Salary benchmarking, made simple.
Our benchmarking service shows how your salary, offer and hiring process compare across Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire, ensuring the offers you make aren't stopping you hiring the best talent.
Why should you benchmark your salaries?
It's rarely a lack of candidates causing you hiring problems.
When a finance vacancy sits open, it is usually because something in the offer isn't landing. Too many businesses still make hiring decisions from last year's salary guide, a national average, or a gut feel about what candidates will accept. That is when good talent slips away.
Here is what we typically see:
The salary is behind the market. Candidates with the experience you need have better-paid options, and they know it.
The process is too slow. Strong candidates are fielding multiple offers while you are still lining up interviews.
The right people aren't looking. Experienced finance professionals are often happy where they are. Reaching them takes a different approach, and the right network.
The job description undersells the role. If it doesn't bring progression, culture and the bigger picture to life, it won't grab attention.
The package doesn't compete. Hybrid working, flexibility, benefits, progression and your reputation as an employer all shape a candidate's decision.
Our benchmarking pinpoints which of these pitfalls are affecting you, so you can fix it fast.
What do we benchmark?
These are the six areas we use to carry out our benchmarking.
Salary Competitiveness
We compare your salary with what comparable roles are paying right now, from Accounts Assistant to Finance Director, taking into account seniority, qualifications, industry, company size and location. You get the context behind the figure, not just an average.
Candidate Availability
Some roles are easy to fill. Others need real expertise. We tell you upfront how hard your hire is likely to be, from a healthy candidate pool to a highly competitive market that needs a targeted search.
Time To Hire
Every extra week a role stays open puts pressure on your team. We benchmark your timeline, from approval to offer, against what we see for comparable roles.
Offer Competitiveness
The moment that counts is the offer. We review salary, bonus, pension, holiday, flexibility, benefits and progression, and tell you whether a candidate is likely to accept, negotiate or walk away.
Recruitment Process
A great salary can still lose out to a slow or clunky process. We look at response times, interview stages, decision speed and candidate communication.
Candidate Expectations
Our consultants talk to finance professionals across the region every day, so we know what candidates are prioritising right now, and how your role measures up.
Get a clear, practical report that moves your hiring forwards.
Your bespoke benchmarking report can include:
- Market analysis: We'll analyse how you compare with similar employers and roles
- Salary benchmark: You'll get a clear view of where your salary sits
- Candidate market assessment: We'll be straightforward about candidate availability, and how hard your hire will be
- Recruitment process review: We'll explain where your hiring process may be costing you candidates
- Offer analysis: You'll receive a review of your salary, benefits and wider proposition
- Recommendations: We'll give you practical actions to improve your hiring results
- Consultant review: The process wraps up with a confidential conversation with one of our specialists to talk through the findings and agree next steps
Tell us about the role.
A short conversation about the position, your package and your hiring process.
We benchmark it.
We assess your role against the local market across all six key benchmarking areas.
We talk it through.
You receive your full report and a confidential review with one of our specialists.
Built for ambitious finance teams.
Our benchmarking service is a great fit for SMEs and growing businesses, owner-managed businesses, finance teams going through change and any employer struggling to attract experienced finance professionals.
When should you benchmark?
- Before recruiting a critical finance role: know the market before you advertise
- Before reviewing salaries: make pay decisions based on evidence, not guesswork
- Before expanding your finance team: understand candidate availability before you commit to a hiring plan
- When you are losing candidates at offer stage: find out whether your proposition is really competitive
- When recruitment keeps stalling: find out whether the problem is your process, your package or the market itself
- Ahead of your annual salary review: use live market intelligence to shape your decisions
Any accounting and finance role, from Accounts Assistant, Credit Control, Purchase and Sales Ledger and Payroll through to Management Accountant, Financial Controller, Head of Finance and Finance Director.
Stop guessing. Start benchmarking.
The businesses that know what candidates want and how their offer compares are the ones that hire the best people. Let's make sure that's you.
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