Hiring a Financial Accountant for All Hallows' School

About All Hallows

All Hallows’ School, is a community alive with the charism of Catherine McAuley and the traditions and culture of a 160-year history.

Established in 1861, All Hallows’ is grounded in the Catholic traditions and values of the Sisters of Mercy. Catherine McAuley’s vision lives on today as the first girls’ school in Queensland and the oldest secondary school in the State.

All Hallows engaged Kingston Human Capital to Hire a Financial Accountant.

Adding to the recruiting challenge, the All Hallows team are always looking to improve existing functions to drive efficiency and productivity. A key part of this project would require very advanced Excel skills.

Most Financial Accountants possess good Exel skills, but very few possess the high advanced Excel capabilities that our client was looking for to support the review and redevelopment of complex Excel models.

The skillset our client needed fell squarely into the Finanical Analyst category.

The Challenge

How did we overcome this challenge?

As a specialist recruitment business, Kingston Human Capital recommended that the client consider a job share arrangement.

This way we could ensure our client would benefit from the strengths of cross-functional skillsets.

Kingston Human Capital provided All Hallows with an excellent candidate for the financial accounting part of the role. We also provided them with an incredible Financial Modeller and Analyst. Both candidates were happy to undertake the role on a part-time, jobshare basis.

By thinking outside the box, we helped our client achieve great outcomes.

The Process

An out of the box solution provided the client the best of both worlds.

We work with some of the smartest clients in the world. That includes All Hallows. They are open to approaching challenges from innovative angles. During the recruitment project planning session, Kingston Human Capital provided the recommendation that a jobshare arrangement would provide the client with the best of both worlds.

By having a solid understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the talent available in the market, we were able to explain why an innovative change to the scope was beneficial.

This recruitment solution didn't hinder the budget or make the client spend more than they anticipated. But it did afford them the advantage of providing two quality skill-sets for the price of one.

1. We liaised with the client to take a detailed briefing and understand the nuances and the challenges of the temporary assignment
2. The team then worked together to speak to our network of temporary staff, evaluating who would be the best fit and who would match the client's availability requirements.
3. After an in-depth search, a shortlist of candidates was presented to the client.
   
4. Provided advice and insight into the personality of each of our talented temporary workers.
   
5. Within one week of receiving the brief we had provided ur client with a spectacular shortlist and they were beginning to run their interviews.
   

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The Result

Hiring took just 5 days

Kingston Human Capital turned around the shortlist, in line with the requirements of All Hallows. By the time we submitted a shortlist through to candidate commencement, it was just five days.

Kingston Human Capital discovered 67 candidates in the talent pool From there, our recruitment experts screened that pool down to 19. From there, seven candidates went to interview with our internal team, to create a shortlist of four for All Hallows.

What did the All Hallows value most about Kingston Human Capital's recruitment services?

All Hallows School liked that as a Brisbane recruitment firm, we were there to provide innovative solutions to get the right outcomes.

Kingston Human Capital guided them throughout the whole recruiting process, and we took the time to understand the strategic focus of the role.

It was important that as recruiters in a specialist space, we were able to deliver an out-of-the-box solution that provided quality candidates who would deliver outcomes right away.

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Kingston Human Capital are a Brisbane based recruitment company that work as an agile team across retained recruitment projects. Our dedicated team of HR specialists seek perfection for you in your recruitment challenges.