Practice recruitment, done properly
ProTalent is a specialist recruitment consultancy for accountancy practice. Not accounting and finance. Not commerce and industry with a bit of practice attached. Practice, trainee to partner, and nothing else.
That has been the whole business since 2009.
Why it works this way
The market treats "accounting and finance" as one thing. Practice gets lumped in with industry and treated as a stepping stone to somewhere better. It isn't. A twelve-partner independent in Lewes and a PE-backed group in the City are not the same employer, and an audit senior is not an interchangeable unit of finance staff.
Specialising this narrowly means knowing things a generalist can't. Which firms are growing and which are quietly losing people. What a role like yours genuinely pays, as opposed to what the adverts claim. Why a candidate turned a firm down two years ago, and whether that reason still stands.
Where
Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and London for most roles. Senior appointments and retained search are handled nationally, and internationally where the role calls for it.
What ProTalent does
Practice recruitment. Permanent, temporary and contract, across audit, tax, accounts, payroll, bookkeeping, outsourcing, advisory, corporate finance, insolvency and practice support. Six month guarantee on every permanent placement.
ProTalent Professional. Retained and executive search for the appointments an advert will not solve. Partner and director level in practice, senior finance leadership in commerce and industry, and talent mapping as a standalone piece of work.
Career advisory and onboarding. Paid career sessions for professionals who want a plan rather than a job, and onboarding toolkits for firms who want new starters to stay.
What you can hold ProTalent to
ProTalent does not headhunt from its clients. If your firm is on the books, nobody who works for you will get a call about a job somewhere else.
No CV goes to any firm without the candidate's agreement.
If a role is not fillable as written, or if a search is not going well, you'll hear it early rather than late.
Those three are worth more than a list of values, because you can check whether they happened.
Certified B Corporation™
ProTalent certified as a B Corporation in January 2026. That means how the business operates is independently assessed rather than simply claimed: pay, supplier terms, environmental impact, and how candidates are treated whether or not they get the job. You can see ProTalent's B Corp profile and score for yourself.
Fellow B Corps receive an automatic 10% preferential rate.
ProTalent is also an accredited Living Wage employer, and Lydia Sinclair is a Fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
Learn more at rec.uk.com, bcorp.com and livingwage.org.uk
Who you'll be working with
Every role is worked by Lydia Sinclair, who started ProTalent in 2009 and has spent twenty-one years in accountancy recruitment.
Read more about Lydia →
Talk to us
Whether you're hiring, thinking about a move, or you just want to know what your team is worth in the current market, that conversation is free and there's no obligation attached to it.
lydia@protalent.co · 01273 491 852