Start-Up and Scale-Up Recruitment

The first senior hires into start-up, scale-up, or high-growth businesses can shape the company's entire future. Whatever your area of expertise, working in a fast-paced, growing business is one of the most exciting, rewarding things you’ll do.

Making Your Growth Our Business

Anyone who has worked for a start-up, scale-up or funded high-growth business will tell you it can be a wild ride. The opportunities and challenges you face differ from those of a more established company.

The businesses we work with can be entrepreneurial, founder-led, private equity or venture capital funded. They are also in a wide range of sectors including SAAS, D2C, E-Commerce, Fintech, Marketplaces, Edtech, Proptech, Consulting and many more. They have one thing in common: finding the brightest, best talent to help drive success.

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Our specialist Start-up and scale-up divisions

We have a successful track record of placing start-up and scale-up professionals into temporary, interim, contract and permanent roles in London, UK and internationally.

We specialise in:

Start-Up

Finding the right people to make big ideas a reality

Scale-Up

Sourcing the best talent to help grow your business quickly and effectively

VC Backed

Securing VC finance and working with Venture Capitalists is a skill not everyone possesses. We find the right experienced people to work with you

PE-Backed

Placing qualified and experienced talent to help secure private equity funding and work with your PE houses

Entrepreneurial Founder Led

Working with founder-led businesses with big ambitions and the drive to make things happen and building relationships with visionary business leaders to understand their goals and develop their team

Fundraising

placing finance and operational professionals to secure pre-seed, series A, series B funding and more

Start-up and scale-up jobs

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Cambridgeshire

CFO

Looking for a PE backed CFO

28/08/2025

180k to 200k

Permanent / Full Time

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Greater London

CFO

Looking for a PE backed CFO

28/08/2025

180k to 250k

Permanent / Full Time

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Greater London

Head of Corporate Development

We are partnering with a high growth, PE-backed businesses on a buy-and-build journey, seeking a Head of Corporate Development

28/08/2025

£100k to £110k

Permanent / Full Time

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We’ve recruited for senior and critical roles in start-up, scale-up and high-growth companies, predominantly helping create the financial and operational infrastructure to enable visionary business leaders to focus on fundraising and investment to help drive growth.

Managing Director

VP of Finance / Finance Director

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Head of Commercial Finance

Revenue Operations Analyst

Finance Manager

Head of Finance

Investor Relations Manager

Head of Operations

Head of FP&A

Head of Financial Operations

Finance Analyst

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We’re proud to be a fully verified Accounting & Finance recruitment partner on Gathrtofind.com – a great platform connecting founders and investors with trusted service providers.

Radley Green partnered with Gathr because, like us, they care about quality, credibility and making it easy for early-stage and high-growth businesses to scale with the right support.

Since joining, we’ve been introduced to some outstanding founders, and we’ve loved helping them build the finance teams they need to grow fast and sustainably.

If you’d like us to support, you too - whether you’re hiring your first Finance Manager or building out an entire function – just give us a shout.

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OUR CLIENTS SAY

Radley Green’s service has been exceptional since Day 1. They have always provided strong candidates for all positions within our Head Office, and have always gone above and beyond to think outside the box on certain specialty positions that were proving hard to fill. I would strongly recommend them.

HR Manager, Global Luxury Cosmetics Brand

Radley Green don’t put any pressure on you. There are no sales calls. Every person they sent to me was worth speaking to because they are very good at understanding the brand. They’re not just fitting a job specification; they understand what I’m looking for from a brand and personality fit as well.

Talent Manager - UK Cosmetics Business

I was introduced to Radley Green by one of our investors when I was hiring for our first Finance Director and we subsequently worked with them on other roles. Radley Green has always provided us with great candidates, and I would highly recommend them as a Finance agency of choice.

Founder – VC backed DTC business

The Radley Green team has been fantastic to work with on our finance roles. They are so professional, knowledgeable and really take the time to understand what the business needs and how we work, and they work in a transparent and honest way which is very refreshing. I'd highly recommend working with them for finance recruitment.

Head of Talent - FTSE Listed online retailer

I have worked a few times with Radley Green and highly recommend them. I have 2 jobs and in the first Radley Green successfully and efficiently found us a fantastic Head of Finance under a tight deadline, and in the second they successfully found us a new Managing Director also under a tight deadline. They were a pleasure to work with, always available, pragmatic and offered sensible commercial advice. I did not feel they were pushing us in either case for the fee but totally focused on us getting the outcome we needed. I would strongly recommend Radley Green for your recruitment needs.

HR Director of 2 Scale up businesses

I have used Radley Green for both permanent and interim roles, and they have always provided top class candidates. I was struggling to fill a number of roles and through engaging with Radley Green interviewed a number of quality candidates, and I managed to fill the roles successfully. The candidates have gone on to become some top performing team members. The team at Radley Green took the time to understand the role and our company, making sure the candidates they put forward were a good fit and well informed about the requirements of the role. They managed the process very well from start to finish – with great communication along the way. I would highly recommend them, and they continue to be my go to agency for roles within my team

CFO – Tech scale up

Partners whose trust we’ve earned

Spanning start-ups, scale-ups, VC and PE backed companies through to global and FTSE listed organisations, we’ve built an established network of long-standing connections that are loyal to us. We’re so proud to work with them, provide great service, connect people and build relationships.

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