We have worked with Harmonic on two briefs recently and in both instances I was very impressed. They always seem to be on top of the process to make sure things progress efficiently and are always clear and prompt with feedback.

Sachin Dosani

Group COO, Wonderhood

It is obvious that Harmonic clearly listen to each job brief, as on a number of occasions we’ve ended up hiring the first candidate sent to us! From shortlisting, interview, offer and beyond onboarding it is always a pleasure working with Harmonic and it’s an easy decision to continue to do so.

Adele Farmer

HR Manager, Fremantle

I would have no hesitation in using Harmonic again and very much enjoyed the process. They really listened to our needs and dealt with the tight deadline presented and were extremely professional throughout.

Joel Mishcon

CEO & Emma Astaire, Operations Manager at Chrome Productions

Having a recruiter like Harmonic who took time to understand and search out the prime candidates was invaluable for us.

Lisa Murray

CFO, Minnow Films

We never thought we would find an FD that would fit our creative, slightly 'rock and roll' culture. But Harmonic immediately recognised that we needed someone a bit special and quickly found us exactly the right person. I would wholeheartedly recommend Harmonic to everyone.

Derek Moore

CEO, Coffee & TV

We have established a trusting relationship with Harmonic and have worked exclusively with them to place strong talent.

Francesca Gillard

Head of People & Culture, Adstream

The retained search process was very enjoyable; they saved my time, had a supportive attitude and their candidate notes and preparation were detailed and accurate. In terms of outcomes: our CFO has taken us through to a successful acquisition by Nestle.

Tim Lee

CEO, Mindful Chef

Harmonic have worked closely as a retained agent, and throughout the process respond well to feedback and in my opinion stand out in the market.

Michael Saunders

Group Finance Director, M&C Saatchi

I hated hiring… until I met with Harmonic. Since I started working with Harmonic, they started off offering great, free advice - their knowledge of the start-up ecosystem is excellent. The quality of candidates was top tier, weekly updates and reporting was concise and detailed, and the team were responsive and proactive. Can’t recommend Harmonic enough.

Simmy Dhillon

Founder, Simmer

We had an excellent experience working with Charlie and the team at Harmonic. Charlie took the time to properly understand our business - how we work, what drives our culture, and the dynamics within the leadership team. He represented both us and the candidates with care and good judgement, facilitating clear and open communication throughout the process. He also challenged our original brief, helping us think beyond the criteria we’d set. By understanding what we actually needed rather than what we’d written down, he introduced candidates who were a better fit than our initial profile. We ultimately hired one of those candidates. It’s been an outstanding addition to the business. We’d gladly work with Charlie and Harmonic again and recommend them without hesitation.

Tommy Rickett

CEO/Founder, BeZero Carbon

Harmonic provides consistently valuable support to Atomico. They’re attuned to the diverse needs of founders and VC-backed companies, and take pride in delivering their client experience.

Andrew Duncan

Director of Talent, Atomico

Having retained Harmonic to recruit our CFO, they acted with great integrity throughout the process, doing the right thing by our business. Highly recommend.

Steve Phillips

CEO & Founder Zappi.io

I was introduced to Harmonic Group by a mutual acquaintance. I met with Harmonic to brief them on what was required- they listened and then went about their work in providing suitable candidates to fulfil the role. The candidates put forward to me were all employable and all could do the job. I was in the very fortunate position that 2 of the 6 candidates were exceptional and I have since chosen one and that person chosen is proving to be a real addition to the business. Harmonic were very professional and provided candidates that I could not have got access to. I am very pleased with the result Harmonic achieved and with the excellent Group Financial Director I now have.

Chris Benham

Group CEO, HG Construction

Harmonic took the time and effort to really understand the needs of my business – they removed the stress of finding that crucial member of staff and found us the perfect fit for our team. Since joining, our new Management Accountant has helped to improve our relationships with several overseas partners as well as control our list of outstanding debtors in a rapidly growing business.

Jamie Harradine

Managing Director, Workstories

I highly recommend Harmonic for their exceptional work recruiting our Head of Finance. Their proactive approach, thorough understanding of our company, and clear communication ensured a smooth process. Our new hire has seamlessly integrated and exceeded our expectations thanks to Harmonic's efforts. They also did a great job supporting the process, with their professionalism and dedication being invaluable, and I am confident they will deliver excellent results to all their clients.

Cornelis von Mollendorff

CFO/COO, TP Bennett

I have worked with Harmonic for 7 years to support our recruitment at TFP during a period of very significant growth for our business. We worked with Harmonic on a retained basis to find our current Finance Director and were extremely happy with the result and the service they provided. They have delivered consistently excellent results for us after that on a diverse range of roles covering Finance, Operations Support, Bid Management, ERP/Finance Systems experts and also Project Management.

Ken Kelly

MD, The Furniture Practice

We partnered with Harmonic for the first time to help us recruit our new Finance Director. After a competitive selection process, we chose them for their subject matter expertise, deep understanding of the architecture and creative industries, and their impressive reach into the candidate market. The result was a thorough, well-managed process completed within our agreed timescales – and the successful appointment of a great new Finance Director. We wouldn’t hesitate to work with Harmonic again.

Andrew Thomas

HR Director, AHMM

"The community that the Harmonic team have created is amazing. With their passionate focus on the food and beverage industry, we've been very lucky to not only work with them at their various events, but to also meet new customers and suppliers through those very parties."

Luke Hemsley

Founder, Wednesday's Domaine

I found working with Harmonic to be a great experience and they have always been able to source high quality candidates with the right sector specific skills. They are without a doubt the first people I pick up the phone to when sourcing new talent.

Anil Sharma

CFO, Superscript

“Harmonic offers an empathetic service that gave me confidence the candidates were treated as well as we were throughout the process. Our focus on cultural fit made the search challenging but they know the startup market, and were able to put high calibre candidates who were excellent matches to the cultural traits we were looking for in front of us.”

Mark Yates

Finance Director, Permutive

Harmonic really understood our business and the people we are looking to hire. They showed excellent knowledge about the sector, promptly understood Doctify’s culture, vision and values as well as key requirements for our CFO role. They have really spent time to vet the candidates before I met them, making my interview time much more effective.

Oliver Thomas

CEO, Doctify

Harmonic are immense. Their market knowledge, speed of execution, detail and ultimately relationship-building approach make them our first choice at Heights.

Dan Murray-Serter

Co-Founder, Heights

Working with Harmonic we’ve found a true specialist, consultative, honest and trustworthy partnership. Not only have we had valuable insight into the market and introductions to top talent that we would not be able to source directly, we’ve also saved a lot of time by working with people who just "get it" and can support us throughout the process. They've been a true extension to our team internally, we can’t thank them enough.

Carrie Johnson

Head of Talent, HelloFresh

Harmonic have recently helped find a new CFO for DrDoctor where I am Chair. The team worked patiently and diligently with our founders and board to build a very high quality longlist from which we found multiple appointable candidates and we were able to make an appointment very quickly.

Joe Ludlow

Chair, DrDoctor

We have engaged Harmonic to assist us with two key roles – our Financial Controller and Head of Business Development. For both roles we were very impressed with their client service, industry knowledge, quality of candidates and candidate management. They were great to work with and were responsive, friendly, tenacious and maintained the right balance in terms of forwarding suitable candidates but not flooding us with options.

Alison Parsons

Talent Development Manager, Hamilton-Brown

I recently worked with Harmonic to source a Commercial Finance Manager. From a tech sector perspective, Harmonic's network is first class and I had a great shortlist to meet. Harmonic also followed up regularly to ensure the successful candidate had settled in. Really enjoyed working with them and would strongly recommend!

Niall Dore

CFO, Find My Past

I would recommend Harmonic for any individual making a move from practice into industry, and equally for any company similar to that of Citymapper looking to build their finance team.

Zoe Preston

Citymapper

It's been a real pleasure to work with Harmonic to develop our Finance team. Their reactivity and approachability have been the key success in our collaboration so far. Sometimes it felt like we were working for the same company with the same goal: hire the right person. Highly recommended!

Romain Moulinas

Captify

Harmonic are diligent in really taking time to learn about our business and the brief, and the hires we’ve made have been a perfect fit – both in terms of skills and culture. I have been really impressed with the hires we’ve made and the service from Harmonic.

Henry Sether

Co-Founder & MD, Misfits

In terms of feedback, it goes without saying based on how quickly we were able to find someone and get them in the role but I have been extremely pleased with the process. The candidates presented all met the brief well and Harmonic's input on closing the offer was very helpful.

Kieran D'Silva

Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer, PrimaryBid

They have done a great job at understanding our needs effectively, bringing wider industry insight, and sourcing a range of good candidates at senior levels. I have been impressed by the overall quality of people we have met and will be working with them more as we build out our team.

CFO

Elliptic

I had a great experience working with Harmonic. They were easy to work with, clear, very professional and understood my needs very quickly which helped find the right candidate super quick.

Charlie James

Financial Controller, Seedrs

We took a leap of faith in selecting Harmonic for the roles we were searching for as we hadn’t worked with them before and were considering using one of the big international search firms. However, we have been very impressed with their work. Not only do they understand the Finance function and market exceptionally well, their values aligned strongly with ours, making working with them very, very easy. We have subsequently worked with Harmonic on another role and would work with them again on any future roles we have.

Peter O'Sullivan

CEO, Penspen (DAR Group)

The team at Harmonic were brilliant, I needed a CFO for a scaling start up, and quickly. They were patient, listened to the company’s needs and turned the role around very quickly. The service was great, and I would highly recommend.

Rob Fowler

CEO, Volta Trucks

Just 6 days after Harmonic had got in touch we made an offer. The process was very smooth, stress-free and efficient.

Patrick Frawley

Founder & CEO, East London Pub Company

We had an excellent experience working with Harmonic. They made the process easy and effortless. Their candidate and client engagement is excellent, and I found them to be very well networked.

Landen Prescott-Brann

CFO, ETM Group

We love working with the team at Harmonic - we trust them as if they were part of our own team.

Alex Cheatle

CEO, Ten Lifestyle Group

Harmonic made the process easy and effortless. Their candidate and client engagement is excellent, and I found them to be very well networked.

Lionel Thornber

FC, Chi Chi London

Harmonic have always taken the time out to fully brief candidates prior to interviews which is why we have found the candidates who have been interviewed from Harmonic are confident and perfect matches for the role!

Alisha Tanna

HR Manager, Rawr Beauty

Harmonic make a real effort to understand client needs, culture and business. And they are honest and open and won't just send candidates to "make up the numbers".

Darren Hayward

Head of Financial Accounting, Selfridges

Working with Harmonic has been great for our business. They were able to bring candidates who had the right skills and experience - but also with the right cultural fit, which is so important for a small company.

Alicia Bamford

CFO, 31Dover

Harmonic maintained a professional and courteous approach towards recruitment, they had a real understanding of our company culture.

Alwyn Martinesz

Financial Controller, Supreme

We had an excellent experience working with Harmonic. They clearly know what is needed to drive high-performing finance teams within our sector.

Landen Prescott-Brann

CFO, Itsu

We engaged Harmonic as our specialist agency and they did not fail to deliver. Cultural fit is a big factor in our recruitment process and Harmonic completely understood what we were all about.

Mary Louca

People Manager, Bigham's

Thank you for the time you invested and bringing your expertise and knowledge of additional profile requirements I hadn't considered. You made the decision-making process non-binary, but rather a genuine prioritisation exercise that will help me shape the rest of the team accordingly.

Connie Cha

Finance Director, Echo (LloydsDirect)

Dealing with Harmonic is always a pleasure both as candidate and client. We have found working with the larger ‘big name’ agencies to be an impersonal and unsatisfying process and Harmonic is the perfect antidote to that.

Dave Buck

Chief Financial Officer, Tom Dixon

I have found working with Harmonic to be a very smooth process. I was happy with the help and support recieved and I would definitely use Harmonic again.

Eleni Germanou

Practice Manager, Architype

Harmonic was able to grasp exactly what we needed and had a pool of impressive candidates. We couldn’t have asked for more!

Kevin Lin

Finance Director, JTP LLP

I have worked with Harmonic for two and half years to support our recruitment during a period of very significant growth. They have delivered consistently excellent results. We feel that we get a "trusted advisor" for the business who can support us with input on organisational structure, benefits packages and salary benchmarking.

Lee Jackson

Managing Director, The Furniture Practice

Harmonic submitted good profiles which ended in a result that we are very happy with. They consistently followed up and helped move the process along quickly. Thanks once again!

Kevin Philips

Senior FM, WeWork

We loved working with the team at Harmonic in every aspect. We are thrilled with Frankie and very happy with the whole process.

Conrad Withey

CEO & Co-Founder, Instrumental

Harmonic showed a lot of initiative in reaching out to me and helping us to find the right candidates for the assistant position. Their communication has been excellent throughout the process and ultimately because of Harmonic's work we managed to find the strongest candidate for the position

Rubin Patel

MD & Co-founder, Tenwest

All communication was swift and to the point. Another great hire from Harmonic!

Johnny Evans

CFO, AEI Group

Harmonic were honest with their analysis and offered some great advice which helped us secure the candidate we wanted.

Kyle Ewen

Global FD, Sofar Sounds

I have found Harmonic a very easy company to work with - the genuine passion for music of the people I have dealt with at Harmonic means they have a level of knowledge and specialist candidates that are not always found more widely

Steve Powell

CFO, PRS for Music

Historically they have understood our requirements and company culture well and secured us some very good candidates. I'd have no hesitation in recommending Harmonic.

Hayley Forrest-Harris

Recruitment Partner, PPL

I appreciated Harmonic’s efforts in screening the candidates beforehand and facilitating the interview process in what was a challenging environment (COVID-19).

Ian Simpson

Group CFO, Wise Music

Harmonic really went the extra mile to source candidates for us that weren’t necessarily already looking, instead of just sending us candidates you already had and trying to convince me they fit the mould, which happens quite often! So it was refreshing. All in all, very happy with the service from Harmonic.

Samantha Garcia

Commercial FD, Hipgnosis Songs Fund

"I had the pleasure of partnering with Harmonic on a critical C-Suite search, and the experience was exceptionally smooth and efficient from start to finish. If you're looking for a search partner who is fast, insightful, and acts as a true extension of your team, I can't recommend Charlie and the team at Harmonic highly enough."

Ashley Bartley

n VP People, Checkatrade