Transaction Services opportunities increasing daily – Leeds

As a result of increased focus in the Leeds and broader West Yorkshire area, we are quickly growing a presence and a list of opportunities across BIG4 Leeds Firms and National Accountancy Practices who are seeing huge increase in demand for TS people;  there seems to be a huge increase in potential deal flow. Equinox Financial [...]

MBI North West – Management Buy In opportunites sore

Looking to MBI in a North West business? MBI opportunities are increasingly becoming the route of choice for established and proven directors across all technical disciplines and industries. We have seen a huge demand in smaller mid market opportunites whereby candidates are asked to raise sums in the £100k to £500k region to buy what [...]

How can the management team/non executives maximise the value of the business and how do I find them?

In a couple of words “with great difficulty”! Finding the right management team (or part thereof) or indeed appointing exceptional non-executive directors is not as easy as putting a round peg in a round hole. The techniques employed to search and select missing parts of the management team should stretch further than “recommended by a [...]

Equinox Financial Search & Selection – Happy Christmas 2011

Ian Wright, Managing Director and Founder of Equinox Financial Search & Selection: “We would like to thank clients and candidates for supporting our business through what has been for many a tough trading year.  We remain wholly focused on providing Manchester and the North West with a premier Financial and Board recruitment service which is both [...]

Huge increase in demand for Practice candidates

As a result of our close working partberships with a huge range of Chartered Accountants’ Practices we are seeing a huge increase in demand for a range of Practice candidates; roles include Corporate Finance Partner in Manchester, Corporate Finance Director in Manchester, Corporate Finance Manager in Manchester, Audit Partner, Audit Manager, Audit and Accounts Seniors [...]

Equinox Financial to open Leeds office

As a result of increasing business load in and across Yorkshire we are looking to open our third office in Leeds. Ian Wright, Founder and MD of Equinox Financial Search and Selection commented “We continue to attract some of Yorkshire’s finest entrepreneurially led businesses in the mid market (typically up to £100m turnover) and as [...]

Equinox Ventures Launched

Equinox Ventures (see www.equinox-ventures.co.uk) has been launched to work closer with the clients of Equinox Financial Search and Selection who require more than a “standard” appointment into their business.  Equinox Ventures aims to identify and deliver candidates who are not only highly commercial and bring a track record of success but are actively looking for [...]

MBI Appointments Booming – Investors Sought!

Equinox Financial Search & Selection have always concentrated heavily on MBI opportunities, introducing highly skilled and capable Finance and Managing Directors to SME businesses.  MBIs have become increasingly popular in recent years, driven by the fact that many senior executives get frustrated with the limited number of opportunities for advancement available where they are. Instead, [...]

Ian Wright features on Insider “Ask the Expert”

Ian Wright, Founder and MD of Equinox Financial Search and Selection features as one of the “Experts” in the Insider Media “Ask The Expert” feature on how to sell businesses and maximise the value of an exit. Please see http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/north-west/36819-how-can-businesses-find-right-management-teamnon-executives-maximise-value-business/index.html

“Unadvertised Job Market” Fact or Fiction?

We hear candidates talk about the world of “unadvertised jobs” and how they have paid thousands to go through expensive and often ineffective programmes of career outsourcing and mentoring, month in month out; we have yet to hear a success story. In truth, candidates choose their recruitment Partner and are beholden to the effort and time that [...]