Our mission is to make recruitment better for everyone.
We get to know each of our clients as people, taking time to understand their business. Candidates receive honest advice and guidance for the long-term. Our people are empowered to deliver a tailor-made service. In short, we’re real recruiters.
Our boutique practices
Finance
SRM Finance is a trusted recruitment partner, from trainee and transaction processing roles through to CFO level hires.
Tax
We have a wealth of experience recruiting for some of the world's largest businesses. Our discretion is well known in the tax recruitment market.
Executive Search
Our Executive Search business is led by founder Stewart Robertson, who has a wealth of experience recruiting CFO and Financial Management positions.
Interim Management
Benefit from a highly experienced team of temp and interim recruitment specialists, offering a personalised, boutique approach to solving your flexible resourcing needs.
M&A Insurance
Our M&A Insurance practice is led by Rory MacSween, one of our Founders and a market leader in placing brokers and underwriters internationally.
Legal
Our legal recruitment business is led by Chris Excell, who brings a wealth of experience hiring into top-tier UK and White Shoe US law firms, as well as placing senior legal counsels in-house.
Transformation & Tech
Specialist recruitment for transformation & tech, dedicated to hiring technology professionals and transformation specialists managing cross-discipline change management programmes.
Meet the founders
Andrew Setchell
CEO
Andrew’s career began in 1996 having previously spent 4 years with PWC as an Accountant. He has an extensive background sourcing for a multitude of businesses, partnerships and organisations across the finance and accounting market place.
Rory MacSween
Founder
Rory started his recruitment career in 2007, developing an extensive network recruiting into specialist tax departments for global financial and commercial organisations. In recent years he has focused on W&I, tax and contingent risk broking and underwriting positions, becoming a market leader in the M&A insurance market internationally. Rory leads SRM’s M&A Insurance team.
Stewart Robertson
Founder & Director
Stewart began recruiting qualified finance professionals in 2002. With an extensive finance network, he’s the trusted advisor to some of the UK’s most prestigious businesses. He leads SRM’s Executive Search practice.
The South East Is No Longer Following London; It’s Creating Its Own Finance Leadership Market
Growth, transformation and talent trends shaping the Southern Home Counties finance market in 2026.
The Southern Home Counties have developed into a finance leadership market with its own distinct dynamics. Across Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire, business growth, investment and transformation are creating demand for finance leaders who can do far more than manage the numbers.
Latest Insight
The finance leadership market across Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire is changing rapidly. With continued growth across a number of sectors, demand for experienced Finance Directors, CFOs and FP&A leaders remains strong. But the profile of the finance leader organisations need is evolving too. Download the whitepaper to explore the 2026 market in detail.
For tax professionals considering their first move from practice into industry, one of the biggest misconceptions can be surprisingly simple: assuming that a job title tells you everything you need to know about a role. But once you move in-house, job titles become far less reliable as a measure of seniority, scope or earning potential.
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