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You Need A Great Senior Finance Hire.
You Just Can't Justify $40,000 To Get One.

Paying a recruiter is a significant commitment. When it works, it's worth every cent. When it doesn't, you've lost time, momentum, and often control.

Going it alone isn't much easier. Post a job and spend the next three weeks sorting through CVs that have nothing to do with what you actually need.

There's a third option.

Before spending on a recruitment fee or running a search you're not confident in, invest $2,500 in getting the foundations right. Richard and Mitchell build the hiring framework for you, drawn from 39 years of placing senior finance professionals across Australia.

Book a free 10-minute call

Tell us who you're trying to hire. You'll get a straight read on what the market looks like right now, whether your brief is right, and what the fastest path to the right person actually is.

Responded to personally by Richard Holmes, usually within a few hours.

800+
Finance placements made by HPR Consulting
39
Combined years of senior finance recruitment experience
78%
Of HPR Consulting's business is repeat clients
5/5
Google rating for HPR Consulting

800+ senior finance appointments. 39 combined years in the market. 78% of clients come back for their next hire. This is what it looks like when the right people are in your corner.

Who This Is For

Right fit matters, be honest
before you read further.

This Is For
CFOs making key hires
CEOs hiring their first finance leader
Growing businesses building a finance team
Companies that want to recruit themselves
Businesses without budget for a recruiter
This Is NOT For
Graduate recruitment
Volume hiring
Admin recruitment
Companies wanting a recruiter to do everything
Why Most Companies Struggle to Hire Well

This is where it goes wrong.
Every single time.

After 39 years combined placing senior finance professionals across Australia, we know exactly where companies lose great candidates. It's rarely about talent supply. It's almost always about process.

Job adverts that repel the right people

Most job ads are internal wish lists dressed up as opportunities. They lead with requirements, not reasons to join. The best candidates, the ones with options, don't apply.

Nobody actually sells the opportunity

Strong finance professionals aren't sitting around waiting to be told a role exists. They need to be sold on why this business, this team, this moment. Most hiring managers never do this.

The process is too slow

Five interviews. Four decision-makers. Six weeks with no feedback. The best candidate has accepted another offer by week three. Speed is a competitive advantage, most companies treat it as optional.

Hiring managers ask the wrong questions

Interviews test confidence and communication more than capability. People who interview well get hired over people who perform well. That's a process failure, not a judgment call.

Everyone in the room assesses differently

Three people interview the same candidate and come back with three different opinions based on different criteria. Without a scorecard, it becomes a popularity contest.

The salary is off-market before it starts

Approvals get locked before anyone checks current market rates. The role is benchmarked against last year's data. Qualified candidates look at the range and don't even apply.

According to SHRM, replacing a failed senior hire can cost up to 5x their annual salary once you factor in recruitment, lost productivity, and team disruption. Robert Half research across 300 Australian hiring managers found that 65% have made a hire that didn't work out, and it takes an average of 16 weeks to realise and replace them. That's four months your business doesn't get back.

Sources: SHRM, The Cost of a Bad Hire Can Be Astronomical; Robert Half Australia, The Rising Costs of a Bad Hire.

How It Compares

Recruiter expertise.
Without the recruiter fee.

This isn't a cheaper version of using a recruiter. It's a different model entirely, you run the process, we give you everything a top search firm would use to do it properly.

DIY HPR Advisory Recruiter
Salary Benchmarking ✗ ✓ ✓
Interview Framework ✗ ✓ ✓
Candidate Network ✗ ✗ ✓
Market Insights ✗ ✓ ✓
Offer Management ✗ ✓ ✓
Cost Free $2,500 $30k to $60k
Typical Recruiter Fee
$30k to $60k+
15% to 25% of first-year salary
vs
HPR Hiring Advisory
$2,500
Fixed. No surprises. Yours to keep.

Advisory fee is credited against your HPR Consulting placement fee if you later choose to engage us for a retained search.

What You Get

This isn't a course. It's not a template.
It's Richard and Mitchell working on your hire.

You get 39 years of senior finance recruitment expertise applied directly to your role. Built around who you're trying to hire, what the market looks like right now, and what it actually takes to attract and close the right person. Not a one-size-fits-all system you have to figure out yourself.

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Strategy
Hiring Blueprint · Candidate Scorecard · 30-Day Plan
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Attraction
Job Ad · LinkedIn Plan · Passive Outreach
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Interviewing
Interview Framework · Competency Questions · Reference Checks
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Decision Making
Reality Check · Offer & Close Guide
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Execution
Stakeholder Journey Map · Implementation Guide
The System

HPR Hiring System

$2,500

A complete hiring system built around your specific role by Richard and Mitchell, not a template you fill in yourself. Delivered within 5 business days.

  • Full strategy across all five pillars, customised to your hire
  • Salary benchmarking against current Australian market data
  • Structured interview framework and competency scorecard
  • Job ad written to attract the right candidates, not just any candidates
  • LinkedIn and direct outreach playbook for passive candidates
  • Offer and close guide so you don't lose them at the end
  • 30-day execution plan from brief to signed offer
Get the Hiring System, $2,500

Fee credited against HPR Consulting placement fee if you proceed to a retained search.

Most Popular
System + Advisory

System + Advisory

$4,500

Everything in the Hiring System, plus a 1-hour session with Richard or Mitchell to pressure-test your brief, sharpen the role, and make sure you're set up to win.

  • Everything in the HPR Hiring System
  • 1-hour live session with Richard Holmes or Mitchell Parsons
  • We challenge your brief, your process, and your assumptions
  • Personalised recommendations for your specific hire and market
  • Written follow-up summary of decisions and next steps
Get System + Advisory, $4,500

Fee credited against HPR Consulting placement fee if you proceed to a retained search.

Most Comprehensive
Hiring Partner

Hiring Partner

$9,500

Everything in System + Advisory, plus ongoing support throughout your hiring process. For businesses that want to run the search themselves but would value an experienced finance recruiter sitting beside them every step of the way.

  • Everything in System + Advisory
  • Dedicated Hiring Partner support from Richard Holmes or Mitchell Parsons
  • Weekly hiring strategy calls throughout the search
  • Application and CV review support
  • Shortlist assessment and candidate benchmarking
  • Interview debrief and candidate evaluation support
  • Guidance on candidate strengths, risks and suitability
  • Reference check framework and interpretation guidance
  • Offer strategy and counter offer risk assessment
  • Support from brief through to accepted offer

Ideal for CFO, Head of Finance, Finance Director and Financial Controller appointments where the cost of getting the hire wrong is significant.

Get Hiring Partner Support, $9,500

Fee credited against HPR Consulting placement fee if you proceed to a retained search.

Not sure which is right? Email richardh@hprconsulting.com and Richard will give you a straight answer.

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THE CFO HIRING PLAYBOOK

How To Avoid Expensive Hiring Mistakes And Build A High Performing Finance Team

Richard and Mitchell have seen the same mistakes made across hundreds of senior finance searches. This guide covers the seven that cost businesses the most, and exactly how to avoid them.

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How It Works

From purchase to a complete
hiring framework. Four steps.

Tell us about the role, we build everything around it. There's nothing generic here.

1
Purchase

Choose your option and check out

Select the package that fits your situation. Payment is processed securely and you'll receive a short intake questionnaire immediately.

2
Intake

Tell us about the role and the business

Ten minutes. We ask about the hire, the context, the team, the salary, and what good actually looks like for your business. This drives everything that follows.

3
Build

We build it around your specific hire

Richard and Mitchell work through your intake and build the full five-pillar hiring system. Customised to the role. Delivered within 5 business days.

4
Advisory

Optional: live session to put it into practice

If you've chosen the advisory option, Richard or Mitchell walks you through the full system on a 1-hour call, challenging assumptions, answering every question, and making sure you're ready to move forward.

About HPR Hiring Advisory

39 years in the market.
We know what good looks like.

This product exists because most senior finance hires fail due to decisions made before the search begins, not because the talent isn't there.

Richard Holmes and Mitchell Parsons have 39 combined years of senior finance recruitment experience in Australia. That's 39 years of understanding what CFOs care about, what great candidates actually want, and where businesses keep making the same mistakes.

HPR Hiring Advisory is that expertise, packaged so you can use it without needing them in the room. You run the process. You own the outcome. You keep the system.

Get the Hiring System

Track record via HPR Consulting

800+
Senior finance placements through HPR Consulting
39
Combined years recruiting at the senior end of the finance market
78%
Of HPR Consulting's revenue comes from repeat clients
5/5
Google review rating for HPR Consulting
The Team

You're not buying templates.
You're buying their thinking.

Richard and Mitchell have placed hundreds of senior finance leaders across Australia. They know what the market looks like right now, and they both answer their own messages.

Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes

Director, HPR Hiring Advisory & HPR Consulting

Richard has spent 20 years at the senior end of finance recruitment across Australia. He's the person clients call when a search has gone wrong, or when they want to get ahead of that happening. Active daily on LinkedIn. Ask him anything.

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richardh@hprconsulting.com
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0403 513 720
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Mitchell Parsons

Mitchell Parsons

Director, HPR Hiring Advisory & HPR Consulting

Mitchell has 19 years of experience across senior finance and commercial recruitment in Australia. He's across the detail that most people miss: candidate mapping, salary calibration, process design, and how to close a search without losing the person at the finish line.

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0413 830 776
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What Clients Say

From people who've run
the process with us

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We'd already wasted three months on a search that went nowhere. Richard came in, rebuilt the brief from scratch and told us exactly why we'd been getting the wrong candidates. The process we got back changed everything.

CFO · ASX-Listed Manufacturer · Melbourne
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The salary benchmarking alone was worth it. We were $30k off-market and had no idea. Mitchell showed us the data, we adjusted, and within two weeks we had three strong candidates we wouldn't have seen otherwise.

CEO · Private Equity-Backed Business · Sydney
"

I've hired a lot of senior finance people over the years. The interview scorecard and closing guide are things I wish I'd had a decade ago. We made a great hire and didn't lose them at the offer stage for the first time in a long time.

MD · Family Office · Brisbane
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Ready to hire smarter?
Let's get it right.

No pitch. No obligation. If you're not sure which option is right, reach out to Richard directly and he'll give you a straight answer.

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