Our Services
Finance Recruitment and Employment Services for India and the Middle East
Finding the right finance professional, employing them compliantly and paying them accurately are three separate problems. We handle all three, and quote each one separately.
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Where to start
Most Businesses Arrive With the Wrong Question
The question is rarely "which recruiter should we use". It is closer to: we need a Financial Controller in Bengaluru, we have no Indian entity, and we are not sure whether this is a permanent role or a twelve-month one.
Three different services answer that, and picking the wrong one is expensive in ways that only surface months later — a permanent search run for a need that was always temporary, or an entity established for two hires that never became ten.
So this page is organised around the decision, not around our service list. Work out which problem you actually have, then read the page that solves it.
Recruitment answers who you hire. Employer of Record answers how you legally employ them. Payroll answers how they get paid. They are quoted separately because they are separate problems, and you may only have one of them.
The Five Services
Three recruitment services and two employment services. Every one is finance-specific — we do not staff other functions.
Permanent Finance Hiring
Long-term finance hires for businesses building a core finance function. Structured search, evaluated shortlist, counter-offer management through to start date.
Contract Finance Hiring
Interim and project-based finance professionals for a defined mandate — leave cover, an ERP migration, a funding round. Deployed in days, not weeks.
Hire from India
Offshore, GCC and distributed finance capability built from India's talent pool, evaluated against your home market's standards rather than in isolation.
Employer of Record (EOR)
Legally employ finance talent in India without establishing a local entity. We are the employer of record; you direct the work.
Payroll Services
Managed monthly payroll for businesses that already have a local entity — salary processing, payslips, and PF, ESI, PT and TDS filings.
Not sure which applies? The comparison below separates the two families, and each page opens with the situations it is the right call for.
Recruitment Services vs Employment Services
The most common confusion we see. Recruitment finds a person. Employment services determine how that person is legally engaged and paid once they are found. Many businesses need one; businesses entering a new market often need both.
Recruitment Services
Answers who you hire
Permanent, contract and India-based search
Charged once, as a percentage of annual fixed compensation
Ends when the candidate starts
You employ the candidate directly
Employment Services
Answers how you employ and pay them
Employer of Record and managed payroll
Charged monthly, per employee
Runs for as long as the employment does
EOR: we are the legal employer. Payroll: you are
How We Evaluate
The HireGenie Finance Evaluation Framework
Every candidate on every recruitment mandate — permanent, contract or India-based — is evaluated against the same seven dimensions before reaching your shortlist.
Why Businesses Use One Firm for All Five
Finance only
We do not recruit for other functions, so the evaluation is built around finance capability rather than adapted from a generic template.
One vendor across find, employ and pay
A business making its first India hire needs a search and an employment structure. Running those through two vendors means two contracts and a gap between them.
Priced separately, always
Recruitment, EOR and payroll are quoted as three line items, so bundling never hides what any one of them costs.
How it works
How an Engagement Runs
The detail differs by service, but every engagement follows the same five stages.
Step 01
Scoping call
We establish what the actual need is — a role, an employment structure, or both — and which service answers it. This is where the wrong-service mistakes get caught.
Step 02
Written proposal
Scope, timeline and fee for each service, quoted separately and upfront, before any work begins.
Step 03
Search or setup
For recruitment: market mapping, targeted sourcing and evaluation against the seven dimensions. For EOR and payroll: contract structuring, statutory registration and payroll configuration.
Step 04
Shortlist or onboarding
Evaluated candidates with written context on fit, or a compliant employment contract and a configured pay cycle.
Step 05
Through to steady state
Offer and counter-offer support to the start date on recruitment; ongoing compliance, filings and employee support on EOR and payroll.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions clients ask most before starting a finance search. If yours isn’t here, we’re one call away.
Hire TalentNot Sure Which Service You Need?
Tell us the problem rather than the service. We will tell you which of the five actually solves it — or that none of them do.