Supporting a High-Pressure Finance Team with a Structured Hiring Process for a Critical Accounting Role
Absolute Pets is a fast-growing retail business with a busy finance function supporting operations across a nationwide store network. As the business expanded, the finance team needed additional accounting capacity to reduce workload pressure and create room for more strategic work.
The challenge
- Finance leadership was carrying significant operational workload.
- A key accounting role had remained difficult to fill.
- Existing team members were spending substantial time on processing and transactional work.
- The business needed an experienced candidate who could contribute quickly and provide long-term stability.
Our Solution
- Embedded into the existing recruitment workflow and screening process.
- Reviewed and screened candidate applications against agreed hiring criteria.
- Refined screening requirements through ongoing collaboration with finance and HR stakeholders.
- Shared candidate summaries and recommendations to support faster hiring decisions.
- Reduced the administrative burden associated with reviewing large volumes of applicants.
RESULTS
- Established a more structured and consistent screening process.
- Built a shortlist aligned to the team’s experience and long-term fit requirements.
- Reduced manual screening workload for internal stakeholders.
- Improved visibility into candidate quality across the hiring funnel.
- Allowed finance leadership to spend more time on decision-making and less time reviewing applications.
“We are really pushing to try and get the role filled soon. From a finance point of view, it's our priority at the moment.”
Absolute Pets