The Consultancy Group

The Consultancy Group is a talent advisory firm that places senior Finance, Strategy and Transformation leaders on a retained basis. It works with organisations facing major change, including PE-backed growth, post-merger integration, in-house capability builds and large transformation programmes. It says it does not run volume recruitment.

The firm was founded in 2014 by a small group of consultants and search professionals. It is headquartered in London and also works in Europe and the US. Each consultant covers a single discipline. Chris Haywood leads Strategy, Phil Dye leads Finance and Christian Pampellone leads Transformation. In Strategy it supports consulting firms as well as multinationals and high-growth portfolio companies. Finance roles include CFOs, Finance Directors, FP&A leads and Controllers, while Transformation work covers ERP and systems programmes, integration and operating model redesign.

Alongside permanent retained search, it offers interim leadership and advisory work on team structure, compensation and succession. It typically presents three to five candidates per mandate. It reports 340+ leadership mandates and says 94% of its work comes from people it has already worked with.