Apointe Ltd

Apointe Ltd Apointe is a specialist finance and accounting recruitment partner working across the UK, Europe, and the US.

We connect founders, investors, and leadership teams with finance professionals who deliver real impact.

03/08/2026

Stick around. Do the right things. Good things happen.

Today I walked into the offices of a growing SaaS business in Reading and sat down with the CFO.

The interesting part? I was in that exact same office nearly five years ago.

Since then, the business has been on an incredible journey of growth, change and transformation. Like any successful company, what they needed then isn’t what they need now.

At the heart of that journey are its people, but as businesses evolve, so do the skills and leadership they need to keep moving forward.

I’ve recently completed a retained search for their Head of FP&A, and I’m now retained to hire three more key positions:

📈 Head of Revenue Operations – up to £80,000 + benefits. A fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong background in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations or Commercial Finance within a SaaS/subscription business. You’ll own revenue forecasting, sales analytics, pricing strategy and key SaaS metrics (ARR, MRR, retention and churn), partnering closely with Finance and Commercial leadership to drive business performance.

📊 Group Financial Controller

🤝 Finance Business Partner

The thing I love most about my job is becoming a genuine, long-term partner to organisations as they move through different stages of their journey. Watching businesses grow and continuing to support them years later is far more rewarding than simply filling vacancies.

If you’d like to know more about any of these opportunities, please reach out to Jules.

And if you’re a senior leader looking for a recruitment partner who is invested for the long term, I’d love to have a conversation.

We don’t work with everyone—that’s never been our approach. But the businesses we do partner with get our absolute best.

Tenure wins.

New Retained SearchGroup Financial Controller📍 Berkshire | Hybrid💰 Up to £120kAnother retained assignment just landed wi...
29/07/2026

New Retained Search

Group Financial Controller

📍 Berkshire | Hybrid
💰 Up to £120k

Another retained assignment just landed with Apointe

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a genuinely impressive business with:

✔️ An outstanding CFO
✔️ A high-calibre finance team
✔️ A brilliant culture
✔️ A superb recruitment partner 😬

We’re looking for a technically excellent Group Financial Controller with experience in a fast-growing, acquisitive international business.

You’ll lead the finance function, own the audit process, drive strong financial controls, and play a key role as the business continues to scale.

We’re looking for someone with a stable, progressive career who has built a reputation for delivering high standards and leading from the front.

Full brief will be released later this week.

If you’d like to hear more, drop me or Julie Whiteman an email.

[email protected]
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Thank you to those of you who have expressed interest into our retained FP&A Director role, John Mclaughlin is running this search, he and Jules ate making their way through relevant profiles.

My family and I are heading to our local water sports lake now to continue practicing our WakeSurfing/Wakeboarding and cool off.

Chat soon.

04/06/2026

Finance Director - Business partnering - £130/£140k. Exclusively with Apointe.

The meetings I have been in recently have left me reflecting on my career. I started in Recruitment in 2011. It has take...
20/05/2026

The meetings I have been in recently have left me reflecting on my career.

I started in Recruitment in 2011. It has taken me from an aimless young man to a business owner and consultant, helping ambitious businesses hire incredible, talented individuals who are shaping the future of Finance teams and organisations.

I meet lots and lots of interesting, successful and happy professionals, most of whom I get to call friends, and I take great pride in the trust and dependence they place in me to support their careers and businesses, which is so much more than just sending CVs.

As my career has grown, so have the candidates and clients I work with, which naturally means we are evolving together.

I am now in the room with CEOs, CFOs, founders, investors, and leaders, helping shape finance functions, plan structures, and support the delivery of outcomes.

This has led me to innovate and help my customers at Apointe with more than executive search and recruitment.

How can I add to that offering? How can I utilise my knowledge and connections to help my contacts evolve faster than their competitors?

By leveraging the very best in the business to transform the way in which the investors I work with, and their portfolio leaders leverage AI.

Recently I’ve been spending time with funds executing buy & build strategies.

I have been supporting a fund to implement a reporting tool across a complex portfolio, from scaling deal origination and speeding up diligence, to improving reporting, standardising the buy & build process, strengthening ESG reporting, and ultimately helping drive stronger exit outcomes through better digital capability.

A lot can happen in 15 years, but if you stick around and continue to do right by people, it pays you back.

I am fortunate to have a lot of these legends in my heart.

John Mclaughlin, and I will keep doing our best to keep the wider Apointe team entertained, engaged, and enjoying the journey.

We’re looking forward to our newest member joining in July.

This picture below was one of my first meetings in London, I haven’t aged a day…

I’ve been a little quiet on LinkedIn the last few weeks.A mix of being deep in the day job, building new things, learnin...
21/01/2026

I’ve been a little quiet on LinkedIn the last few weeks.

A mix of being deep in the day job, building new things, learning fast and sneaking off to the mountains for a bit of skiing ⛷️

Behind the scenes, I’ve been running as fast as I can.

Recently at Apointe I’ve been involved in some really fun projects, including.

• CFO – PLC
• Finance Director – PLC
• FP&A Director – Series B
• Finance Director – Series A
• Commercial Manager – Series B
• Head of PMO – PLC
• Skiing the Swiss Wall

We’re supporting our clients to hire genuinely top-tier people.

We don’t send everyone, but the people we do send land well

The bigger question for me has been, how do we offer even more to our client base?

How do we go beyond great hires and actually help businesses move faster and smarter?

That’s where MyTeAIm comes in.

I’ve supported one client for over 15 years, helping them build and evolve their finance function through multiple phases of growth. Now we’re taking it a step further, working with them to fundamentally change how they approach M&A, using an AI-native platform my colleagues and I have built at MyTeAIm .

This is early days, but it’s exciting.

And it’s exactly where I want to be, at the intersection of great people, great businesses, and better ways of working.

More to come on this. Much more.
For now, it’s heads down, sleeves rolled up, staying hungry.

It’s great to be surrounded by good people, something I never take for granted.

John Mclaughlin Kiana Pillay Brett Hossack Matt Burton

2026 goals. Clear head. Fast legs. Big ambitions. Learn to speak French. This year at Apointe , I’m leaning even harder ...
05/01/2026

2026 goals. Clear head. Fast legs. Big ambitions. Learn to speak French.

This year at Apointe , I’m leaning even harder into what I love doing and where I genuinely help.

•Supporting more CFOs and CEOs as they build standout finance teams

•Working closer with PE & VC firms to hire leaders and swap notes on what’s really happening in the market

•Helping an AI startup in Abu Dhabi gear up for a serious hiring sprint - huge learning curve for me.

Q1 is looking busy, lots of great conversations, many of them kicked off on a Brompton commute, and hopefully wrapped up on a chairlift somewhere in the Alps ⛷️🚲

If you’re scaling, investing, hiring, or just fancy a chat about ski condition or hiring patterns, always happy to connect.

For today, I had better pump the tyres and sharpen the edges
On
Here’s to 2026, may you all have a healthy and happy year.

Pete

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