Vero Recruitment Ltd

Vero Recruitment Ltd Exclusive accountancy roles you wont find anywhere else; connecting exceptional accountants with the very best employers in Aberdeen City and Shire.

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Exclusive accountancy roles you wont find anywhere else; connecting exceptional accountants with the very best employers in Aberdeen City and Shire. With an unashamedly selective yet truly human approach, we are dedicated to enhancing the lives of the people we work with. Established by Andrew and Becca Ferguson in 2019, Vero combines the expertise of two trusted and highly regard

ed recruitment experts, focusing exclusively on the recruitment of experienced accountancy professionals. Over the last 18 years we have placed over 1800 accountants into new roles, built finance departments from scratch and hired exceptional leaders for great businesses. Our expertise lies in supporting employers with key hiring decisions, shaping brand messaging and ultimately delivering exceptional results and an unrivalled customer experience. We love getting to know people. We take great pride in developing close relationships, providing a discreet and highly personalised service. That's one of the reasons why you won't find any of our vacancies advertised on traditional job boards. Follow our page for a mix of career guidance, client campaigns, interviews, case studies and blogs.

Yesterday, I had a conversation with a woman who apologised to me three times in the space of twenty minutes! She apolo...
10/09/2026

Yesterday, I had a conversation with a woman who apologised to me three times in the space of twenty minutes!

She apologised for not knowing exactly what she wanted to do next, she apologised because her confidence wasn’t where it used to be, and then she apologised because she got upset talking about it.

Genuinely I wanted to crawl through the computer screen and give her a cuddle, because I knew EXACTLY where it was coming from.

She’d spent the last few years caring for her mother whilst quietly trying to hold onto the career she’d worked incredibly hard to build beforehand. Somewhere along the way, she’d convinced herself that she was somehow “behind”.

Behind who exactly?!

When I asked her if she even enjoyed what she was doing and wanted the possible promotion she was losing sleep over, the answer was no. Now, realising you’re climbing a ladder you don’t even want to be on anymore is a scary thing. Very scary.

One of the biggest privileges in my work is helping people to understand what they truly want, how that fits into their life now, and exactly how to get it.

Sometimes confidence needs rebuilding, sometimes priorities need to change, sometimes the career you wanted at thirty simply isn’t the one you want at forty and that’s ok. No, really…it is.

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Unique Financial Controller opportunity where you will help the owners to run the business both commercially and operati...
08/09/2026

Unique Financial Controller opportunity where you will help the owners to run the business both commercially and operationally.

We’ve been exclusively retained on an excellent Financial Controller opportunity with a successful, privately owned business in the Aberdeen area. It’s also one of those roles where the job title only tells you half the story.

Yes, you’ll take ownership of finance - managing the accounts function, reporting, budgeting, cash flow and controls. But my client is looking for much more than that.

They want someone who will work closely with the management team and become genuinely involved in helping them run the business. You’ll understand the financial performance of different operations, get involved in commercial decisions, support funding discussions and contribute to tenders for new work.

Importantly, you’ll also get out from behind the desk. This is an operational business, and they want their Financial Controller to develop a proper understanding of how it works, spending time with different parts of the organisation rather than simply reporting on them from finance.

The company is established, profitable and financially strong, with a remarkably loyal team and further investment planned.

This will suit someone who enjoys being close to the action; someone who wants to understand why the numbers look the way they do, who is comfortable working directly with business leaders and who enjoys using finance to influence what happens next. Previous experience of managing the finances, plus wider responsibilities, is essential.

Intrigued?

Email: [email protected]

I think we’re reaching an interesting point with AI in accountancy, because the conversation is moving away from whether...
08/09/2026

I think we’re reaching an interesting point with AI in accountancy, because the conversation is moving away from whether accountants should use it, towards something much more important: what are you actually doing differently because it exists?

There’s a big difference between occasionally opening Co-Pilot to tidy up an email, to genuinely starting to rethink how you spend your working day.

I’ve spoken to accountants recently who are using AI to take a first pass at commentary on management accounts, interrogate large sets of financial information, help build scenarios around forecasts, summarise lengthy contracts or board papers, improve Excel formulas, challenge assumptions in a business case, prepare questions before meeting an operational manager, or simply turn a fairly messy collection of thoughts and numbers into something they can work with much more quickly.

None of that removes the need for a good accountant. In fact, I think it probably does the opposite.

If AI can help with some of the processing, drafting and repetitive analytical work that historically swallowed hours of an accountant’s week, the value of the person sitting behind it starts to move further towards judgement, curiosity, commercial understanding and the ability to look at what has been produced and ask whether it actually makes sense.

That last bit is very important. (Continued in comments)

Looking for a fully remote role with a truly purpose-led fin-tech business? We’ve been exclusively retained on a brillia...
07/09/2026

Looking for a fully remote role with a truly purpose-led fin-tech business?

We’ve been exclusively retained on a brilliant new Accountant opportunity, working with an incredible team of professionals from a range of backgrounds, based across several countries and continents.

Our client is a high-growth, technology-led business operating in the payments space. They’re scaling rapidly, have secured significant external investment and are building the infrastructure required for their next stage of growth. And finance is right at the beginning of that journey.

They’re looking for an Accountant who can take ownership and help build a best-in-class finance function from the ground up.

You’ll work closely with an inspirational Head of Finance and senior leadership, initially taking responsibility for core accounting, reporting and controls, but with genuine scope for the role to grow as the company does, including exposure to future fundraising.

This isn't a role where everything has already been built for you, and that's precisely the attraction.

You'll have the opportunity to improve processes, introduce structure, influence systems and reporting, work with AI, and ultimately help shape what the finance function becomes.

We’re looking for a practice-trained Chartered Accountant, ideally with at least two years’ post-qualified experience. Perhaps you’re considering a progressive first move into industry and want something with genuine breadth and influence. Or you’ve already made that move and are looking for a wider role with the opportunity to help shape something truly unique.

You can work from anywhere within a two-hour time difference of the UK, collaborating in person once a month with other members of the team, including the Head of Finance, in London. In addition to paying a salary above market rate, equity is also on offer for the successful candidate.

Intrigued?

Email: [email protected]

September's Book Club pick is "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman...and it's one of those books that quietly change...
07/09/2026

September's Book Club pick is "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman...and it's one of those books that quietly changes the way you think.

The title comes from a simple but sobering fact - if we're lucky enough to live until we're 80, we'll have around 4,000 weeks on this planet. Rather than encouraging us to squeeze more into every day, Burkeman argues that our obsession with productivity, efficiency and "getting through the list" might actually be preventing us from enjoying the life we're working so hard to build.

What I loved most is that this isn't another time management book; it's almost the opposite. It gently challenges the idea that we can do everything, be everything and achieve everything...and instead encourages us to focus on what really matters.

It's thoughtful, reassuring and full of moments that made me stop and think, "Have I been looking at this all wrong?"

As we head into the final few months of the year, this feels like the perfect reminder that life isn't about getting everything done... t's about making time for the things that deserve our attention in the first place.

A book I'll definitely come back to!

Becca

When you hear the phrase "career gap"...what immediately comes to mind? What kind of person do you see? What immediate r...
03/09/2026

When you hear the phrase "career gap"...what immediately comes to mind? What kind of person do you see? What immediate reactions do you have?

Can we talk about that for a minute, please?

I spend a lot of my working week speaking to people around my age (I recently turned 43).Quite a few of them are people ...
31/08/2026

I spend a lot of my working week speaking to people around my age (I recently turned 43).

Quite a few of them are people I first helped 15 or 20 years ago. Back then, we were talking about first qualified roles, getting a salary increase, moving out of practice, maybe buying a first house.

Now they’re Finance Directors, CFOs, senior leaders across Aberdeen. And increasingly our conversations aren’t just about jobs.

Because this stage of life is f*cking hard.

You’re trying to build a career while potentially raising kids. Both parents are working. Childcare needs coordinated with military precision. There are school WhatsApp groups pinging constantly, clubs to get them to, homework, packed lunches, birthday parties you forgot about and a never-ending stream of life admin.

Then there’s the pressure to optimise absolutely everything.

Train four times a week. Get your steps in. Eat more protein. Sleep eight hours. Improve your HRV. Don’t have your morning coffee before food. Maybe sign up for a marathon. Or HYROX. Apparently everyone is doing HYROX. When did running a marathon become not enough? Now it’s ultra-marathons.

And your smart watch will helpfully let you know when you’ve failed. Ouch, poor sleep score today Amy/Derek…

Social media gives us a window into thousands of other lives, most of which appear to involve better holidays, fitter bodies, and happier children.

Then 5pm arrives.

You finish work, switch into parent mode, make dinner, help with homework, run someone to football, swimming or Cubs, negotiate bedtime...

And at 8pm, how many of us open the laptop again?

I sometimes think about my parents’ generation. My mum didn’t work when we were young. There were different pressures and challenges, of course, but there wasn’t this expectation that every part of life had to be maximised simultaneously. (Continued in comments)

Finding quality in quiet places.When Becca and I launched Vero Recruitment seven years ago, we spent a lot of time discu...
26/08/2026

Finding quality in quiet places.

When Becca and I launched Vero Recruitment seven years ago, we spent a lot of time discussing what we wanted the business to stand for. Recruitment is recruitment at the end of the day, but there are countless ways to approach it, and we wanted something that reflected how we genuinely believed the best work gets done.

That’s how our tagline, Finding quality in quiet places, came about.

Initially it was intended to describe how we recruit. We have never relied on job boards or volume approaches, because in our experience the strongest candidates are rarely the easiest to find. More often than not they’re doing a great job, they’re respected within their business, and they aren’t spending their evenings updating CVs or responding to every message that lands in their inbox.

Over the years though, I’ve realised those words have come to mean something much broader.

We live in a world where visibility is often mistaken for quality. The loudest voice is assumed to be the expert. The busiest person is assumed to be the most successful. The company making the biggest noise is often perceived to be the market leader. Social media, in particular, has a habit of rewarding attention rather than substance.

Yet when I think about the people I’ve admired most throughout my career, very few fit that description.

They’re the Finance Directors who quietly transform businesses without needing the recognition. They’re the managers who make everyone around them better, often without anyone outside their team ever knowing their name. They’re the business owners who build exceptional companies over twenty years rather than trying to create the appearance of success over twenty months.

Even outside of work, I find myself drawn to the same principle. Some of the best conversations happen in quiet, intimate settings. Some of the best decisions are made when there’s enough space to think. Some of the most rewarding opportunities appear out of nowhere.

Perhaps that’s why our tagline has never changed, and I doubt it will.

Finance Business Partner opportunity | Aberdeenshire | High Growth We're recruiting a Senior Analyst (Operations Finance...
24/08/2026

Finance Business Partner opportunity | Aberdeenshire | High Growth

We're recruiting a Senior Analyst (Operations Finance) for a large, internationally focused organisation in Aberdeenshire.

The business is entering an important new phase, with an increased focus on operational performance, financial discipline and sustainable growth, and that makes this a particularly interesting time to join the finance team.

Reporting to the Head of Operations Finance, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across Operations and Finance, providing the analysis, insight and challenge that helps improve performance and commercial decision-making.

There’s broad exposure across manufacturing costs, budgeting and forecasting, working capital, CAPEX and performance analysis – alongside the opportunity to improve systems, reporting and automation.

We're looking for someone analytical, commercially minded, and inquisitive. Suits management accountants, cost accountants, and/or FP&A professionals.

Highly competitive salary and excellent benefits, including hybrid and flexible working, plus a range of fantastic perks.

To hear more, email [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

Monday morning, and it feels like we’re properly back into the swing of things after the summer break.We managed to take...
24/08/2026

Monday morning, and it feels like we’re properly back into the swing of things after the summer break.

We managed to take a few days off before William went back, which was a really nice way to finish the holidays before everything picks up again. And pick up it has!

Last week we launched our search for the new CFO of Great British Energy. It’s a fascinating appointment and we’re already scheduling meetings with senior finance leaders about the opportunity.

We’ve also got a number of new roles coming through over the next couple of weeks, including one with a heavy AI and automation focus, an interesting corporate finance opportunity within industry, and several Finance Business Partner positions.

This week there’s a lot happening on the candidate side too. We have interviews taking place at Financial Controller level, as well as for a tax opportunity, so plenty of interview preparation and hopefully some good news to come.

Alongside the recruitment work, I’m continuing to spend more time supporting people with deeper career coaching. Not because they need a new job today, but helping them think properly about where they want their career to go over the next few years and how they actually get there.

So lots going on and nice to be back into the normal routine again. Have a good week everyone.

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