Hiring a finance manager who possesses the fundamental characteristics needed to fulfil their role ensures that your ‘employees will adapt, grow, and stretch’ while your company evolves, whereas hiring based on skills, alone, may mean that these skills become outdated or irrelevant over time.

A candidate with all the right qualifications may be perfectly suited for the role of a finance manager, but the right finance manager for your business may seem completely different on paper to what you expect.