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SUBSCRIPTION OFFER · 2026 & 2027

One subscription,
unlimited hires.

1 agency placement

£30,000

30% of a £100k base salary. One role. One invoice.

SearcHive, full year

£12,000

Unlimited hires. All finance roles and engagement types.

SearcHive replaces agency placement fees and gives your talent team the most powerful finance recruiting tool they have ever had access to. SearcHive is not just a platform. It is a network built by recruitment experts over decades, and subscribing gives you access to all of it.

Lock in today's price for two full years.

Join before 30 June 2026, and your subscription rate is guaranteed for 24 months. Two years of unlimited finance hiring for less than the fee on a single agency placement.

Model: Annual subscription
Placement fees: None. Ever.
Roles covered: All finance roles
Average time to offer: 10 days

A note from our CEO, Catherine Turner

Recruitment should be enjoyed, not endured. I built SearcHive because our clients deserved better. After nearly 30 years placing finance talent, I watched businesses maintain a suite of agencies just to cover their hiring needs, one for senior appointments, another for mid-level, another for interim. Significant fees at every level. No single view of the market. And never quite knowing whether the candidates in front of them were truly the best available, or simply the best that particular agency had to offer at that moment.

For the volume of repeat hires that every finance function makes, whether Management Accountants, Financial Controllers or Finance Business Partners, the agency model is an expensive and inefficient default that most organisations have simply never stopped to question.

Then there is the search end of the market. A business needed a CFO or a Financial Director. They engaged a search firm. Months passed. A shortlist eventually arrived of candidates that, frankly, any decent recruiter with genuine market knowledge should already know. And at the end of it, an invoice for 30% of base salary landed on someone's desk.

The network existed. The knowledge existed. What was missing was a better way to access it, something built around how finance leaders actually want to work. Whether you are at your desk, on the move between meetings, or reviewing a shortlist from your phone on the way to an airport, SearcHive works around you.

Thirty years of knowledge and relationships, available on demand, without the pain. No astronomical fees. No months of waiting. Just the right hire, fast, at a fraction of the cost.

Catherine Turner · CEO, SearcHive

You are paying up to 30% on every hire. There is no justification for it.

A typical agency or search firm charges 30% of base salary. On a £100k hire that is £30,000, gone, for one role, with nothing to show for it the next time you hire. SearcHive costs £12,000 a year and covers every hire you make. The fee on a single mid-senior placement buys you more than two full years of SearcHive. Run that past your CEO.

5 hires via agency

£150,000

5 hires via SearcHive

£12,000

Total saving

£138,000

The saving grows with every hire

Agency fees scale with every placement. SearcHive stays flat.

3 hires

Agency (30%)£90,000

SearcHive£12,000

You save£78,000

Agency cost (30%)

SearcHive (£12k, flat)

You save

Hover or tap a point to see the breakdown.

Based on 30% agency fee on £100k average salary. SearcHive subscription covers unlimited hires.

What your hiring year actually costs.

Recruitment spend is a controllable cost that most finance functions have simply never controlled. The numbers below are not hypothetical. They are what finance teams across the UK are spending every year without questioning it.

ScenarioAgency model (25%)SearcHiveSaving

One permanent hire at £80k£24,000£12,000 p.a.£12,000

Two permanent hires at £80k£48,000£12,000 p.a.£36,000

CFO hire at £200k£60,000£12,000 p.a.£48,000

Interim FD plus two permanent hires£60,000+£12,000 p.a.£48,000+

Any further hire in the same yearFull fee, againIncluded100% of fee avoided

All scenarios use a single annual subscription of £12,000 + VAT, covering permanent, interim, fractional and part-time roles.

Spire Healthcare has made multiple hires through the SearcHive platform. The quality of candidates, speed of delivery and ease of the process has been outstanding. Every shortlist has been tightly matched to our brief. We will absolutely continue to use SearcHive.

Multiple hires

Cost to Hire Calculator

See exactly what your current hiring approach is costing your business.

Your talent team is capable. They are just working with the wrong tools.

Most finance functions have an internal talent team. They post the adverts. They do the outreach. And then, for anything senior or specialist, they call an agency anyway. Not because they are not capable, but because they do not have access to the network. SearcHive fixes that. It puts three decades of finance recruitment relationships directly behind your team, so the roles that have always defaulted to agencies no longer need to.

The true cost of running an internal talent function, including the salaries, systems and time spent on roles that still end up with an agency, is almost always higher than the number sitting in your budget. Most clients who run our calculator find it is significantly higher than they assumed.

Cost to Hire Calculator

Run the Numbers

Try SearcHive's Cost to Hire Calculator and see the real number for your function.

A vacant finance seat is costing you money today.

Not eventually. Now. Month-end is harder. Decisions are slower. The team around the gap is carrying it. And while your process runs at the industry average of six to eight weeks, the best candidates have already accepted offers elsewhere. The speed gap between SearcHive and a traditional search is not a nice-to-have. It is a commercial advantage that compounds with every hire.

24h

Shortlist delivered from brief, within one working day

10days

Average time from brief to accepted offer

6–8wk

Industry average for the same journey

Speed to Hire Calculator

Calculate what a slow hire is costing your business in lost productivity and commercial momentum.

Stop managing a suite of agencies. One subscription covers all of it.

Most finance functions maintain relationships with multiple agencies because no single one covers every level. One for senior appointments, another for interim, another for mid-level. Separate fees, separate processes, separate relationships to manage.

SearcHive replaces all of it. Permanent, interim, fractional and part-time, from CFO to Management Accountant, one subscription.

Will you be hiring this year?

Will you be hiring this year? The Finance Team Health Check takes five minutes and identifies where the gaps in your team are before they become operational problems.

Not a job board. Not an algorithm. A network built over three decades.

SearcHive is built on 60 years of combined finance recruitment expertise. The difference between a curated network and a scraped database is the difference between candidates who want your role and candidates who applied to everything. Every shortlist we send is the former. That is not a feature. It is the point.

A curated network, not a scraped database

Are these really the best candidates, or just the ones who applied? It's the question every hiring manager thinks but rarely asks. Our network has been built over three decades. Finance professionals connect with SearcHive because of our reputation for discretion and genuine market knowledge — not because of a LinkedIn scrape or a cold outreach blast. Every shortlist candidate is there because they want to be.

Interested candidates, not just available ones

Other platforms fill your pipeline. SearcHive fills your roles. We surface candidates who have actively expressed interest in your specific opportunity. That distinction matters significantly in how quickly a hire completes.

On your phone, between meetings, on the road

Review a shortlist from the back of a cab. Respond to candidates in an airport lounge. The platform fits around your day. You do not need to be at a desk to move a hire forward.

Real support, not a chatbot

SearcHive is available throughout — and for clients who are time-short or resource-light, we'll run the search ourselves. Briefing candidates, managing the shortlist, moving at pace on your behalf. No purely automated platform can offer that. We can, because we never stopped being recruiters.

Built for businesses of all sizes

From founder-led to FTSE, PE-backed to not-for-profit. The subscription model works whether you hire once a year or ten times. One flat fee, regardless of how many roles you fill.

Salary benchmarking, built in

Subscription clients have access to our salary benchmarking tool, so before you post a role you know exactly what the market expects. Getting the salary wrong is one of the most avoidable reasons a hire takes longer than it should. We remove that risk before the search begins.

Pipeline talent, not just fill seats

Unlimited searches mean there is no cost reason to hire reactively. Build your bench now. Move at pace when the need arises.

What you get:

Fast

From brief to dynamic shortlist within 24 hours

Relevant

No cold outreach or wasted CVs. Candidates who have actively shown interest in your role

Smart

Candidates scored and ranked by role fit, not just keyword match

Flexible

Works for one hire or a whole team. Permanent, interim, fractional, part-time

Supported

We run searches for clients who are time-short or resource-light. Real people, always available

Benchmarked

Salary benchmarking tool for subscribers. Know what the market expects before you post

Zero fees

Subscription-based. No recruiter fees. No placement costs. Ever

How it works.

The process removes friction at every stage. Your talent team runs the search using the platform directly. If you prefer more support, expert-led options are available within our pricing. Either way, five minutes is all it takes to get started.

I had to quickly build a first-class finance team. This needed to be done cost-effectively whilst delivering the quality of candidates that could span a FTSE 100 environment and the challenges of a start-up. SearcHive was incredibly fast to shortlist candidates and highly cost-effective for hiring multiple roles.

Scale-up team build

Create your account

Post your role and let SearcHive do the work

Attach your job description or let our AI compose one for you. Add any other preferences with free text. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a live shortlist of those candidates who meet your selection criteria and have expressed their interest in your role.

Connect and hire

Review your tailored shortlist, book interviews, and make your hire. With unlimited hires included in your subscription, you can fill roles quickly and confidently, all while eliminating the administrative burden of sifting through irrelevant CVs.

Hire, repeat, pipeline

Unlimited hires, included. Your talent team uses SearcHive to build the bench continuously, not just when a seat becomes vacant. Every subsequent hire costs nothing extra.

Tools & community.

Available to all clients and contacts, without a subscription requirement.

Cost to Hire Calculator

Compare typical fees to SearcHive's flat subscription costs.

Speed to Hire Calculator

Model the real productivity cost of an unfilled finance role over time.

Interview Scorecard

Select the seniority band, then choose your interview stage.

Finance Team Healthcheck

Understand how future-ready your team is — benchmarked to teams like yours.

Salary Benchmarking

Salary range, notice period, bonus expectations, and more.

CFO Series

There is much more to come. Subscribing clients will be the first to access a growing suite of tools built on three decades of finance recruitment knowledge, including interview scorecards, AI literacy assessments, salary benchmarking and market insight tools. We are building the most comprehensive finance hiring platform in the UK, and the people who join now will shape what it becomes.

Catherine Turner

CEO, SearcHive

Join now. Before 30 June.
Before the price changes.

There is no requirement to have an active role to join. In fact, the best time to join is before you need it. The subscription is there when a role lands. And until 30 June 2026, we are guaranteeing today's rate for two full years. After that date, we cannot make the same commitment.

Two-year rate guarantee. Closes 30 June 2026.

Join before 30 June and your rate is fixed for 24 months. Three hires over two years costs £24,000 in total on SearcHive. The same three roles through a typical agency would cost £90,000 or more. That is not a rounding error. That is a decision.