Every decision starts with the numbers.
Every decision leadership makes rests on the numbers. With the right accounting and finance professionals in place, regulatory returns land accurately and on time, valuations hold up to scrutiny and finance change moves forward without disrupting the close. The result is a finance function your board can rely on.
We specialise in accounting and finance recruitment across Hong Kong and Mainland China, within Technology, Insurance, and Banking businesses and multinational corporations.
Accounting & Finance recruitment for hirers
Our consultants each specialise in one area of the market rather than working across every discipline. In accounting and finance, that means keeping our market knowledge current every day. We track how ERP and system migrations are reshaping finance teams, how new roles such as finance change lead and capital reporting specialist are defined, and how pay is moving across Hong Kong and Mainland China. So every brief starts from a shared understanding and up-to-date market intelligence.
For CFOs, finance directors and heads of treasury or finance change, our expertise extends into executive search. At that level, leadership and influence across the organisation matter as much as technical background.
The strongest finance hires add value beyond their job description, so we look at the whole picture. Technical capability is the foundation, whether that’s HKMA returns, NAV and valuation processes, Basel capital reporting or budgeting and forecasting models. Alongside it, we look for three qualities that build trust:
- Judgement: knowing when a number needs challenging before it reaches leadership or a regulator
- Clarity: explaining results, variances and risks in a way the business can act on
- Discretion: handling price-sensitive and confidential information with care
Every candidate is screened by a consultant who knows this market. They look beyond job titles and qualifications to what each person has reported, controlled and improved.
We recruit across accounting and finance, from reporting and control through to planning and transformation:
- Financial Regulatory Reporting: professionals who deliver accurate, timely returns to regulators, including the HKMA.
- Fund Accounting: NAV, administrator oversight and investor reporting specialists for funds and asset managers.
- Product Control: P&L, price verification and valuation professionals who give desks and finance a shared view of performance.
- Investment Accounting: portfolio valuation and investment reporting specialists, including for insurers’ and reinsurers’ portfolios.
- Financial Management Reporting: MIS and executive dashboard professionals who give leadership a timely view of the business.
- Capital Management & Reporting: Basel and solvency specialists who keep capital measured, reported and planned.
- Performance Management: professionals who connect targets, KPIs and results across business lines.
- Finance Change: target operating model, ERP and system migration specialists who move the finance function forward.
- Treasury: liquidity, ALM and funding specialists who keep the balance sheet resilient.
- Expense Management: cost control and procurement finance professionals who bring discipline to spend.
- Financial Planning & Analysis: budgeting, forecasting and business partnering professionals who shape the plan.
Whether you’re strengthening your own finance function or resourcing a client engagement, we shape the search around how your team works.
- In-house finance teams: team shape, reporting lines and long-term fit, with hires sequenced around year-end, regulatory submissions and change programmes. We’ll help you weigh permanent against contract, and for teams spanning Hong Kong and Mainland China, explore location, language and cross-border reporting experience early.
- Professional services firms: technical depth and client readiness, such as HKFRS 17 experience for insurance engagements or regulatory reporting for banking ones, matched to start dates, contract length, extension options and candidate notice periods.
We offer permanent, contract and executive search hiring. See our permanent recruitment and contract hiring pages for more detail.
We support organisations where finance carries real regulatory, commercial and investor weight:
- Global banks: reporting, control, capital and treasury across onshore and offshore entities.
- Hedge funds: fund accounting, product control and investor reporting.
- Fintech: finance functions growing alongside new products and licences.
- Insurers and reinsurers: investment accounting, capital and reporting.
- Insurtech: finance teams supporting digital distribution and new platforms.
- Professional services: finance specialists for client engagements and internal finance teams.
- FMCG and consumer goods: planning, performance and cost control in multinational corporations.
A specialist recruiter brings an understanding of how finance functions are built and governed to every stage of hiring, from sourcing and assessment to market insight. The right finance professional protects the integrity of your reporting and the confidence of your stakeholders, so a well-matched hire has a lasting impact.
Our consultants look for evidence of what candidates have reported, reconciled and improved. They explore how each person has worked with auditors, regulators and senior stakeholders before anyone reaches your interview stage. We share current salary insight, realistic availability and a clear view of how similar profiles are moving across Hong Kong and Mainland China, so you can plan with confidence. Our network of 900,000+ candidates includes finance professionals who aren’t actively looking or visible on job boards.
Accounting & Finance market intelligence
The frameworks that matter most depend on your sector and where the role sits in the finance function. For insurers and reinsurers, our consultants explore experience across HKFRS 17 reporting cycles and the local risk-based capital rules. For banks, the focus moves to Basel capital reporting, HKMA returns and liquidity measures. For hedge funds and asset managers, the focus is NAV processes, valuation controls and administrator oversight.
We also look at how candidates have used their qualifications in practice, including HKICPA membership and other professional accountancy qualifications. We ask how they have handled a new standard, a system migration or a change in reporting requirements. For roles spanning both markets, we explore group reporting across Hong Kong and Mainland China entities. Frameworks can be learned, but knowing how to apply them under audit and regulatory scrutiny comes from experience, and that’s what we test before anyone reaches your shortlist.
Accounting and finance pay across Hong Kong and Mainland China varies by specialism, seniority and sector. Specialisms linked to the balance sheet, capital and finance transformation sit towards the upper end of current ranges. Mainland China ranges sit below Hong Kong in HKD terms, which matters when you are planning a team across both markets.
As a guide, for professionals with four to eight years’ experience:
- Treasury: HKD 780,000 - 1,150,000 in Hong Kong; RMB 380,000 - 680,000 in Mainland China.
- Finance Change: HKD 720,000 - 1,050,000; RMB 350,000 - 620,000.
- Capital Management & Reporting: HKD 700,000 - 1,050,000; RMB 340,000 - 600,000.
- Financial Regulatory Reporting: HKD 660,000 - 960,000; RMB 320,000 - 550,000.
- Product Control: HKD 650,000 - 950,000; RMB 300,000 - 540,000.
Contract roles are priced differently from permanent salaries, so we can share current rates when you are planning a contract hire. For tailored benchmarking by role, seniority and sector, visit our benchmarking page.
AI is putting a premium on finance professionals who can stand behind the numbers. Reconciliations, data gathering and first-draft variance commentary are increasingly handled with AI support. Sign-off, audit and regulatory accountability still sit with your team, so the value of a hire is moving towards reviewing outputs, evidencing how a figure was reached and explaining it with confidence.
Governance shapes how this plays out. In Hong Kong, the privacy regulator’s model framework sets out how organisations procuring AI should handle personal data. In Mainland China, separate rules apply to generative AI services. Finance leaders who have introduced AI tools within those expectations can keep adoption moving through internal approvals.
When you’re interviewing, ask candidates how they have checked an AI-assisted output before it reached leadership. Their answer shows how they balance efficiency with control.
The same title can draw on different experience depending on the business:
- Capital management: at a bank, it means Basel reporting. At an insurer, it means solvency under the local risk-based capital rules.
- Investment accounting: at an insurer, it supports policyholder liabilities and HKFRS 17 reporting. At a hedge fund, fund accounting is closer to NAV and investor reporting.
- FP&A: at a consumer goods multinational, it centres on margin, pricing and cost. At a bank, it follows business line performance and capital usage.
Our consultants explore which parts of a candidate’s experience transfer and which take time to build. That helps you widen a search with confidence, or keep it focused where sector knowledge is essential.
Specialisms
We cover key corporate functions specialisms within technology, banking & insurance that help fuel transformation and growth within business.
Skills
Our specialist recruitment consultants work with key skills areas across corporate functions, in niche technology, banking & insurance communities, building their knowledge, network and experience to deliver excellent service to candidates and clients.
