Support functions
Your accounting recruitment agency for key professions
Support functions encompass a number of key professions that are essential to the smooth running of companies, such as finance, accounting, administrative and financial management (CFO), as well as human resources, legal affairs, general services and IT.
These businesses, although often in the background, are essential to ensure the stability and efficiency of operations within organisations, and to guarantee their regulatory compliance and growth.
Support functions: from operations to strategy, at the heart of digital transformation
Changing roles and expectations
Long seen as traditional administrative roles, support functions have become genuine strategic partners within organisations. With the digitalisation of processes, the globalisation of trade and the increasing complexity of regulations, companies are now relying on these functions for much more than just operational tasks: in particular, they expect them to provide support in decision-making, backed up by strategic analyses that fully integrate risk management.
Digital transformation and automation
Digitalisation remains one of the major challenges. In finance and accounting, for example, the use of specialised software and the automation of accounting and financial processes (ERP, etc.) enable more efficient organisation, but require professionals to acquire new technological skills. This transformation also affects HR, with the management of candidates and profiles via digital platforms that ensure the maintenance and evolution of information systems.
Talent shortages and retention
Recruiting skilled people is becoming increasingly complex, due to a shortage of candidates specialising in finance and technology. The demand for multi-skilled people who can combine technical expertise with strategic vision is high, prompting companies to develop stronger retention strategies to retain these teams.
Compliance and regulation
These functions, particularly in finance, accounting, legal and human resources, play a central role in ensuring that companies comply with local and international standards. With the increase in regulations (e.g. GDPR, IFRS, SOX), the complexity of these jobs is growing all the time, requiring advanced skills in risk management and corporate governance.
Actual Talent, solutions for your recruitment needs
Faced with the challenges of recruiting for support functions, our consultancy offers a global approach, tailored to the specific needs of each company, by offering a range of complementary services.
Search & Selection
With the unemployment rate for managers expected to be less than 4% in 2024, we can consider these functions to be in full employment on the UK market, making executive recruitment often difficult. Actual Talent stands out for its expertise in search and selection, helping you to target and approach key executives, who are often in post, but relatively open to opportunities if you know how to approach them. Thanks to a targeted headhunting method, we can guarantee the quality of the candidates we present.
RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) enables companies to gain greater agility while benefiting from the expertise of our specialist consultants. We manage the entire recruitment process for your support functions, ensuring rigorous monitoring and compliance with the objectives set.
Assessment Center
In-depth assessment of candidates via our Assessment Centres enables us to recruit people who are perfectly suited to the needs of support functions. We assess not only technical skills, but also soft skills such as stress management, the ability to collaborate and agility, which are essential in these professions.
Executive Search
As your accounting recruitment agency, Actual Talent offers you highly specialised executive search services for the recruitment of your managers, executives and other management functions. Our executive consultants have a vast network of contacts and extensive research tools at their disposal to identify your leaders of tomorrow.
Employer Brand and HR Communication
In a job market under pressure, it’s essential to stand out as an employer. We help companies strengthen their employer brand by developing HR communication strategies that promote the career opportunities and working environment offered to their profiles.
An expert at your side
Actual Talent’s approach is based on a detailed understanding of the challenges specific to support functions. Whether you need to strengthen your financial or IT teams, our customised solutions will enable you to recruit, retain and train profiles capable of meeting your challenges, now and in the future.
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