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For The CFO Practice, it’s personal

Founded by Rob Baker in 2021, The CFO Practice is a founder-led, UK-based executive finance recruitment firm, specialising in CFO and finance director search for high-growth and transformational companies.

With over 20 years’ experience working alongside investors, founders, CEOs, and CFOs, Rob is passionate about delivering long-term enterprise value on every finance leadership search.

The firm offers a personal, agile, and discreet service, working predominantly with investor-backed companies looking for a more thoughtful and differentiated recruitment partner.

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The Founder

Meet Rob, who manages all aspects of the search process

Rob Baker has developed an exceptionally strong network of CFOs and finance leadership professionals across the UK. He has dedicated his career to helping high-growth, transformational businesses build high-performing, sustainable finance leadership teams.

As the Founding Partner of The CFO Practice, Rob personally manages all aspects of the search process, applying his extensive expertise to ensure a successful outcome. For the CFO Practice, it’s personal.

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    The CFO Practice identifies 92% of appointed candidates within the first 30 days of commencing a permanent search.

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    The CFO Practice averages five first-round interviews to every successful permanent search.

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    The CFO Practice donates 5% of its annual profits to charity.

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Tailored solutions delivered
with flexibility and expertise

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  • Executive
    Search

    Personalised CFO and finance director search for high-growth and transformational companies

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  • Interim
    Management

    Interim solutions effectively delivered with pace and precision

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  • Fractional

    Supporting CEOs and founders with part-time appointments that drive commercial value

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  • Candidates

    Dedicated to supporting candidates on their career journey

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The CFO Practice was everything you want from a search firm. They helped us narrow our search, only brought extremely good candidates onto the shortlist, and ultimately helped us recruit the ideal candidate. They’re experts in finance executive hiring, and it shows. We’ll be working with them again.

Mauro Cozzi

CEO & Co-Founder - Emitwise

When Rob makes an introduction to me, I know they’re going to be good. I trust his judgement, and importantly (and somewhat uniquely), I know that his priority is finding the right fit, not finding the right fee.

John Coburn

Portfolio Talent – Business Growth Fund

The CFO Practice conducted an efficient and thorough executive search service and provided an excellent list of candidates for our CFO position. Thanks to the accurate screening of candidates, we were able to rapidly hone in on the successful candidate who has fitted smoothly into our organisation. Top marks to the CFO Practice.

Roland Wessell

CEO - Synergia Energy Plc

I’ve known Rob for over a decade, having worked with him as a candidate and client. His approach works very successfully, delivering many exceptional senior staff to my finance teams. Rob is the person that I turn to for senior recruitment as I know that he will deliver a shortlist of great candidates.

Richard Kozlowski

Group CFO – Jimmy Choo

Rob handled our Director of Finance & Operations (London based) search with incredible efficiency and efficacy, quickly finding excellent candidates with the right profile for our company and helping manage the whole process seamlessly to a good outcome. The CFO Practice is everything one would hope for in a search firm.

Alejandro Litovsky

Founder & Chief Executive - Earth Security

We had the pleasure of working with Rob from The CFO Practice to fill a senior critical level position within our business. From the outset Rob, demonstrated an exceptional understanding of our needs and bespoke requirements. His dedication to finding us the right candidate was evident in the thorough selection process and in the high calibre shortlisted professionals he provided us. The successful candidate has had a significant positive impact on our team. We would highly recommend using The CFO Practice and couldn’t be more satisfied with the outcome.

Sian Williams, HR Director & Joe Pace, CEO

MS-RT

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