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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 director and CFO search.

The CFO Practice offers a personal, agile, and discreet service, working predominantly with investor-backed companies seeking a more thoughtful and differentiated recruitment partner for finance leadership searches on a permanent, interim, or fractional basis.

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tailored solutions delivered
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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 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.

The Founder

a more personal, high-integrity service

After two decades in executive finance recruitment, I founded The CFO Practice in 2021 with a clear focus – to specialise in CFO and finance director search while delivering a more personal, high-integrity service.

While many larger recruitment firms are built around scale and growth targets, my priority is different. I deliberately limit the number of finance director and CFO searches I manage, ensuring I can personally lead each one with care, rigour, and transparency.

“100% focused on your search – and your search alone.” 

The CFO Practice cuts through the complexity often associated with executive recruitment, avoiding protracted shortlisting processes and complicated fee structures, in favour of a simpler, more credible approach that puts delivery first.

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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

Chief Executive Officer & 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

Chief Executive Officer - Synergia Energy Plc

Rob is my go-to recruiter for senior finance roles. I have worked with him twice in the past three years and each time, Rob demonstrated an exceptional understanding of what I needed. He is thorough and rigorous in his process but also tailors it uniquely to a client’s requirements. Not only that, he always delivers a high calibre panel of candidates to any process and then guides you expertly through the process to make sure you get the right fit. His real magic? As he only takes on a few mandates at a time, you get the impression, and the results, that he is 100% focused on your search and your search alone. I could not think of a better senior finance recruiter out there.

Nabeel Vilcassim

Chief Financial Officer - ComplyAdvantage

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.

Joe Pace, Chief Executive Officer & Sian Williams, HR Director

MS-RT

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Empowering Ceuta Group’s Global Growth with Strategic Financial Leadership

At The CFO Practice, we believe successful leadership placements are about more than simply securing an…

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