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Tom Hunter

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Specialist finance recruiter. A decade placing first finance hires and CFOs across Australian tech, fintech and deep tech.

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Finance recruitment and executive search

The best finance leaders are not looking, so the search that lands them looks nothing like posting a role. This is how a retained finance search runs, and what to ask before you brief one.

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The questions founders ask

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The best finance leaders are not on Seek, so the search that lands them looks nothing like posting a role. What retained and mapped means, the benchmarks to hold a search to, and what to ask before you brief one.

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Contingent suits roles with deep active markets. Senior finance is not that market. Why paying to map the market properly is the cheaper option when the wrong hire costs a year of runway.

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