Salary Guide/How We Evaluate, and About HireGenie
How We Evaluate, and About HireGenie
This guide describes a market. This section describes how we work within it, because the two are connected: the ranges here are wide precisely because scope varies, and evaluating scope properly is the whole job.
Every candidate we present is assessed against the same seven dimensions before reaching a shortlist. A resume can confirm the first two. The other five have to be evaluated by someone who understands finance well enough to know what they are looking at.
The seven dimensions
| Dimension | What we are actually testing |
|---|---|
| Technical competency | Genuine functional depth, not keyword familiarity |
| Industry experience | Whether the candidate has operated in your kind of business |
| Career progression | The trajectory behind the titles, not just the titles |
| Business understanding | Commercial judgement beyond technical accuracy |
| Leadership capability | How they manage teams and stakeholders under pressure |
| Communication skills | Whether they can influence people who are not in finance |
| Organizational fit | Whether they suit this business, at this stage |
Hiring decisions fail on context far more often than on competence, and most of what matters sits below the surface of a resume. That is the part generalist recruiting skips, and it is usually the part that decides whether a hire works.
About HireGenie
HireGenie is a specialist finance recruitment firm working across India and the Middle East. We place finance professionals and nothing else, from the first finance hire in a startup through to CFO and finance leadership appointments: 500+ finance hires placed, 250+ clients served, 400K+ finance professionals mapped, and 92% of placements still in role at twelve months. Those figures describe our search work, not the compensation data in this guide — the methodology above sets out where the numbers come from.
Disclaimer
This guide is published for general information. The salary tables are compiled from publicly available sources and are indicative ranges, not offers or valuations. Compensation varies by city, sector, company scale and the specific mandate. Nothing here constitutes financial, legal or professional advice, and readers should apply their own judgement before acting on it. Compiled June 2026. © 2026 HireGenie.
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